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- Kinship and Polity in the Poema de Mio Cid
- Book
- 1993
- Published by: Purdue University Press
- Series: Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Front Matter
- pp. i-v
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-26
- Chapter One. Kinship
- pp. 17-54
- Chapter Two. Amity
- pp. 55-98
- Chapter Three. Marriage
- pp. 99-150
- Chapter Four: Polity
- pp. 151-198
- Bibliography
- pp. 241-266
Additional Information
ISBN
9781612490977
Related ISBN(s)
9781557530394
MARC Record
OCLC
624181121
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No