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About 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 MartÃnez 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.Naylor died on September 16, 2019.
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