Professor Alan Deyermond was one of the leading British Hispanists of the last fifty years, whose work had a formative influence on medieval Hispanic studies around the world. Given Professor Deyermond's breadth of expertise, the span of the essays is appropriately wide, ranging chronologically from the 13th to the 16th century, and covering lyric, hagiography, clerical verse narrative, frontier balladry, historical and codicological studies.