Catalán, Diego.- SPANISH EPIC POETRY. NEW DOCUMENTATION AND NEW EVALUATION

Ramón Menéndez Pidal Foundation, Madrid, 2000. Cover, 1021 pages. Publisher's hardback. Carefully produced edition. Epic poetry in the vernacular south of the Pyrenees. Testimonies from the 13th century.- Testimony of epic poetry south of the Pyrenees prior to the 13th century.- Post-Alfonsine testimonies of the continuity of the epic.- Medieval Spanish and Romance epic. The legacy of a primitive oral tradition.- El Cid.- Formation and development of the Cid cycle.- The Hispanization of Carolingian epic: Roncesvalles.- The testimony of the ballad tradition on the epic. Disquisition 1: Ameri Pocaud, author of the five books of Iacobus.- Disquisition 2: Unity of the Liber Beati Iacobi.- Disquisition 3: Time in which the Liber Beati Iacobi was written.- Disquisition 4: On the date of the Historia Roderici.- Disquisition 5: On the date of the Chronica Naiarensis.