The King and the Whore
Subtitle: King Roderick and La Cava (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: November 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781403974365
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Portugal; Spain; European - Spanish & Portuguese; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Spanish & Portuguese; Florinda (Legendary character); In literature; King of the Visigoths,; Roderick,; d. 711?
Description: This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the eighth century to the present day.