On the Nature of the Cantar de mio Cid and its Place in Hispanic Medieval Epic

Introduction Tracing the Oral in Hispanic Literatures

“…Antonio Sánchez Jiménez (2004), Joseph J. Duggan (2005), and Juan Carlos Bayo (2005) have focused on both the courtly and the epic genres and contexts, contributing to a richer understanding of what literary and cultural production entailed throughout the medieval period. Carlos Conde Solares (2009: 47-48) also identified the existence of certain 'juglares de voz' working for major poets in the context of the Navarrese courts of the fifteenth century.…”