Roger Boase obituary

In his work Roger Boase traced the rise in Spain of concepts such as chivalry and courtly love Photograph: none

My father, Roger Boase, who has died aged 77, was a scholar of Spanish 15th- century cancionero poetry and history.

Roger’s magnum opus, published in 2017, was Secrets of Pinar’s Game, analysing across two volumes a single Iberian poem from 1496 and all the literary, historical, botanical and heraldic references therein.