Eric Woodfin Naylor
Eric Woodfin Naylor (December 6, 1936 – September 16, 2019) was an American Hispanist, scholar and educator.
Naylor was born in Union City, Tennessee. He completed his undergraduate work at The University of the South and a PhD at University of Wisconsin. At Wisconsin, he began studying El libro de buen amor. He continued studying it and has conducted paleography on the original text. He was a professor emeritus of The University of the South where he served as William R. Kenan Professor of Spanish.
In 2013, he and Professor Jerry R. Rank published a translation and discussion of Alfonso Martínez de Toledo's Arcipreste de Talavera. Naylor and Rank's work was titled The Archpriest of Talavera: Dealing with the Vices of Wicked Women and the Complexions of Men and it was reviewed in The Medieval Review and La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.[1][2]
Naylor died on September 16, 2019.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Poole, Kevin R. (1 January 2016). "16.10.32, Naylor and Rank, trans., The Archpriest of Talavera by Alonso Martînez de Toledo". The Medieval Review. Retrieved January 8, 2017.
- ^ Kirby, Steven D. (August 12, 2015). "The Archpriest of Talavera: Dealing with the Vices of Wicked Women and the Complexions of Men by Alonso Martínez de Toledo (review)". La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. 43 (2): 111–118. doi:10.1353/cor.2015.0000. ISSN 1947-4261. S2CID 161524835.
- ^ "In Memoriam: Eric Woodfin Naylor". University of the South. September 16, 2019.