Explores the intersection between medicine and medieval Iberian literature with a particular emphasis on melancholy and its links to depression and lovesickness.

Professor López González completed his PhD at Harvard University in 2017, writing a dissertation on suicide and its attending phenomenology in medieval Iberian culture and literature. He has published over twenty scholarly articles in national and international peer-review journals, including in MLN, Hispanic Review, Modern Language Review, and others. He is writing a book about medicine, society, and womanhood in medieval Iberia, which focuses on the effects of an oppressive patriarchal society on women's mental health.

• Introduction: Melancholia and its Evolution in Thirteenth Century Iberia


• Part I: Melancholia and Madness


• 1: "Mais braadou come cabron": Madness in Cantigas de Santa Maria


• 2: Melancholic Delusions in the Margins of El Conde Lucanor


• Part II: Rabies or Hydrophobia


• 3: Rabid Melancholy in Cantigas de Santa Maria


• 4: Fear without Cause and Rabies in Juan Manuel's Exemplo 47


• Part III: Lovesickness or Amor Hereos


• 5: Disturbances of the Body and the Soul: Love Melancholia in Cantigas de Santa Maria


• 6: "Mano en Mexilla": The Lovesick Poet in Libro de buen amor


• Part IV: Acedia and Mystical Lovesickness


• 7: Diseases of the Soul in Cantigas de Santa Maria


• 8: Writing about Melancholia to Allay Acedia in Libro de buen amor


• 9: Mystical Lovesickness in Cantiga 188


• Conclusion