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This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Chapters are devoted to such themes as the multifarious significance of kinship and lineage, with special attention to the role of fathers, uncles, and cousins in the world of clan loyalties; amity as a system of fictive kinship, personal honor, and public organization; the importance of women, and the meaning and function of marriage, dowry, and related practices; the emergence of the polity as a rivalry of social, legal, and economic systems; and the implications, within an essentially kin-ordered world, of the poem's notions of shame, honor, status, and social inequality.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Front Matter
  2. pp. i-v
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. List of Abbreviations
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-26
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  1. Chapter One. Kinship
  2. pp. 17-54
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  1. Chapter Two. Amity
  2. pp. 55-98
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  1. Chapter Three. Marriage
  2. pp. 99-150
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  1. Chapter Four: Polity
  2. pp. 151-198
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  1. Chapter Five. Conclusion: Deference and Inequality
  2. pp. 199-230
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 231-239
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  1. Bibliography
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  1. Index
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