In this study, Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar de mio Cid as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy, then into genealogical values. Considering the poem's distortions of history more significant than its retention of historical f…
In this study, Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar de mio Cid as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy, then into genealogical values. Considering the poem's distortions of history more significant than its retention of historical f…
Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Irene Zaderenko and Alberto Montaner -- 1 The Poema de mio Cid as Text: Manuscript Transmission and Editorial Politics /Alberto Montaner -- 2 The Question of Authorship /Irene Zaderenko -- 3 Why was the Poema de mio Cid Written Down the Way …
This volume brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field of 'Poema de mio Cid' studies. It provides an informed introduction to key literary aspects of the poem, and thoroughly examines many of the complex issues that are crucial for a comprehensive understand…
This volume brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field of Poema de mio Cid studies. It provides an informed introduction to key literary aspects of the poem, and thoroughly examines many of the complex issues that are crucial for a comprehensive understandin…
"This book makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of Leon-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The four chronicles were all composed in an unprecedented surge of Spa…
