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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. "In Memoriam: Eric Woodfin Naylor". University of the South. September 16, 2019.