Don Juan Manuel
Also recorded as Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena · Juan Manuel of Castile
Don Juan Manuel
Jose Luis Filpo Cabana · CC BY 3.0
- Full name
- Juan Manuel.
- Born
- 1282. · castillo-palacio de Escalona.
- Died
- 1400. · Córdoba.
- Nationality
- Crown of Castile.
- Occupation
- writer and politician.
- Known for
- Tractado de la Asunçión de la Virgen María, Libro de las armas, Libro enfenido, Tales of Count Lucanor, Libro de los estados, Libro del cavallero et del escudero, Crónica abreviada and Libro de la caça.
- Languages
- Old Spanish.
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The recorded working language is Old Spanish. Positions recorded include Mayordomo mayor of the King of Castile and Adelantado mayor de la frontera de Andalucía. Works named in the authority record are Tractado de la Asunçión de la Virgen María, Libro de las armas, Libro enfenido, Tales of Count Lucanor, Libro de los estados and Libro del cavallero et del escudero.
Convento de San Pablo (Peñafiel), Juan Picardo 1537
Jose Luis Filpo Cabana
Capilla mayor del Convento de San Pablo (Peñafiel). A finales del siglo XVII, los restos mortales del don Juan Manuel (†1348) se trasladaron del centro del presbiterio a este nuevo lugar.
José Luis Filpo Cabana
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castillo-palacio de Escalona.
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Córdoba.
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- 1.Aurelio Pretel Marín. El señorío de Villena en el siglo XIV. Albacete: Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses "Don Juan Manuel" - Excma. Diputación de Albacete. 1998. 8487136869.
- 2.Diez de Revenga, Francisco Javier. Denominación y Títulos de Don Juan Manuel. Miscelánea Medieval Murciana. 8. 16 & 27. 2003-12-01. 1989-4597.
- 3.Real Academia de la Historia. Castilla, Manuel de. Diccionario Biográfico español.
- 4.Bibliography cited: *Obras, edited by P. de Gayangos in the Biblioteca de autores Españoles, vol. li. *El Conde Lucanor (Leipzig, 1900), edited by H. Knust and A. Hirschfeld *Libro de la caza (Halle, 1880), edited by G. Baist *El libro del caballero et del escudero, edited by S. Gräfenberg in Romanische Forschungen, vol. vi. *G. Baist, Alter und Textueberlieferung der Schriften Don Juan Manuels (Halle, 1880) *F. Hanssen, Notas á la versificación de D. Juan Manuel (Santiago de Chile, 1902)
- 5.Chisholm 1911 has "Mahomet III", but he had died in 1314.
- 6.Peters, Michael F., Jr. "Juan Manuel’s Libro de los estados: fictive history, estate theory, and disputes with Alfonso XI." Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 18.1 (2025): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2025.2589278
Bibliography printed in the source article · 10
- Ayerbe-Chaux, Reinaldo. Count Lucanor: Traditional matter and originality creadorá. Madrid: J. Porrúa Turanzas, 1975.
- Biglieri, Aníbal A. Towards a poetic one of the didactic story: Eight studies on count Lucanor. Chapel Hill: UNC Dept. of Romance Languages, 1989.
- Flory, David. The Count Lucanor: Don Juan Manuel within his historical context. Madrid: Pliegos, 1995.
- Giménez Soler, Andrés. Don Juan Manuel. Biography and critical study. Zaragoza: F. Martinez, 1932.
- Hammer, Michael Floyd. "Framing the Reader: Exemplarity and Ethics in the Manuscripts of the 'Count Lucanor'." Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles, 2004.
- Lida de Malkiel, Maria Rosa. "Three notes on Don Juan Manuel." Romance Philology 4,2-3 (1950): 155-94.
- Wacks, David A. "Don Yllán and the Egyptian Sorcerer: Vernacular commonality and literary diversity in medieval Castile." Sefarad 65,2 (2005): 413-33.
- MacPherson, Ian. ed. Juan Manuel: A Selection. London: Tamesis Texts Limited, 1980.
- Peters, Michael F., Jr. "Juan Manuel’s Libro de los estados: fictive history, estate theory, and disputes with Alfonso XI." Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 18.1 (2025): 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2025.2589278
- Wacks, David A. "Reconquest Colonialism and Andalusī Narrative Practice in the Conde Lucanor." diacritics 36, no. 3-4 (2006): 87-103.
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