Joseph J. Duggan

The Cantar de Mio Cid

Poetic Creation in Its Economic and Social Contexts

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Produktbeschreibung

Joseph Duggan interprets the Cantar as a work that transmutes moral values first into the economic values of a gift economy, then into genealogical values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780521062978
• ISBN-10: 0521062977
• Artikelnr.: 23526570

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Modern equivalents to names in the maps
Maps
1. Historical and theoretical framework
2. The acquisition of wealth
3. Economy and gift-giving
4. Social status, legitimacy and inherited worth
5. The poet's milieu
6. Geography and history
7. The Cantar de mio Cid and the French epic tradition
8. Mode of composition
9. Conclusion
Notes
List of references
Index.