ABSTRACT
This chapters deals with one of Castile’s most renowned intellectuals of the fourteenth century, Don Juan Manuel. It discusses the treatment of food in three of his works: the Libro del cavallero e del escudero, the Libro de los estados and the Libro infinido, and attempts to establish the genre to which his ideas belong, be it mirror for princes, Regimina sanitatis or treaties on vices and virtues.
