Elizabeth Drayson

Elizabeth Drayson (born 1954)^[1] is Lorna Close Fellow in Spanish at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in medieval and early modern Spanish literature and cultural history. She produced the first translation and edition of Juan Ruiz's Libro de buen amor to appear in England.^[2][3][4]

Selected publications

• The Book of Good Love, Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, new English translation and critical introduction, notes and bibliography, Everyman Paperbacks, (London: Orion, 1999).
• The King and the Whore: King Roderick and La Cava, The New Middle Ages series (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007). Shortlisted for the La Corónica book prize 2008.
• The Lead Books of Granada, Early Modern History: Society and Culture series (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013).^[5][6]
• The Moor's Last Stand (London: Profile, 2017).^[7]
• Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada (London: Head of Zeus, 2021; Apollo, 2022).^[8]