Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Many books entitled Romancero del Cid have been printed since the publication of Juan Escobar’s Historia del valeroso cavallero el Cid Ruy Díez de Bivar in 1605. Medieval romances were so popular that most of them were included before in pliegos sueltos and cancioneros, but until Escobar’s edition printers and editors were not aware of the possibilities that monographic volumes of these ballads could bring. During Romanticism this trend reached its height: the most reknown editions and translations of Cid ballads were published –Herder, Gibson, Michaelis, Monti–, thanks in part to the rise of nationalism and its characteristic love for the Middle Ages. However, none of them –neither those who come after– payed any attention to the modern oral tradition, which has transmitted more than two hundred versions of these ballads. In the Fundación Ramón Menéndez Pidal we are prepearing an integral edition of the Romancero del Cid; this paper aims to describe in depth this cultural heritage and to survey the history of its transmission for over four centuries.
Author: Nicolás Asensio-Jiménez
Language: Spanish
Topic: Medieval Iberian Studies
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2946926068