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The Cantar de mio Cid - Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social Contexts (Paperback, New)
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The Cantar de mio Cid - Poetic Creation in its Economic and Social Contexts (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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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 features, Duggan ascribes its depiction of the
penurious hero who acquires wealth, power, and kinship alliances to
the Castilian monarchy's preoccupations with furthering the victory
of Las Navas de Tolosa. He maintains that the Cantar de mio Cid was
composed around the year 1200 in substantially the form in which we
have it now, in the course of a singer's performance. Arguing
against a number of tendencies in Cid scholarship, Professor Duggan
denies the necessity of assuming that the poet was a man of
learning, that he was directly influenced by French literature, or
that he was familiar with written law.
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