Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: : Catherine Brown considers Ramón Menéndez Pidal's theory of the origins of the Spanish epic as fragments of a complete, lost text. Brown compares Pidal's theory to that of medieval reliquaries. To become a relic, an object must be torn from its context (body or grave), encased in text, and renarratized. Such is the operation of Pidal's work, Reliquias de la poesía épica española , which, according to Brown's analysis, exhumes, reorders, and reconstructs the Castilian epic corpus from the fragments buried in the chronicles.
Source: La corónica/La Corónica
Author: Catherine Brown
Language: English
Topic: Medieval Iberian Studies
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4387988089