Spanish epic, romance, legend, devotional memory, and literary traditions from Iberian and related worlds.
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Glossary — A shelf-specific glossary starter for the Spanish shelf.
Introduction to Spanish Epic and Legend — A source-critical introduction to the Good Works Spanish epic and legend shelf, centered on the Cid poem, Lewis Spence, Castilian honor, frontier memory, romance, ballad, and the religious politics of medieval Iberian storytelling.
Legends and Romances of Spain — Lewis Spence — Legends and Romances of Spain — Lewis Spence's 1920 study of Spanish legend and medieval romance: the Cantares de Gesta, the Poema del Cid, Amadis de Gaul, the Romanceros, Moorish romances, and the folk tales of Spanish magic and sorcery.
The Lay of the Cid — R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon — The oldest surviving Spanish epic — El Cid's exile, conquest of Valencia, and vindication. Verse translation by R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon, University of California Press, 1919.
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