Title: Kinship and polity in the Poema de mío Cid
Description: This study of the social content of the only Spanish epic surviving in more or less complete form provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Chapters are devoted to such themes as the significance of kinship and lineage; 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 polity as the result of 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.
Subjects: Cantar de mío Cid, History and criticism, Kinship in literature, Romances, Social classes in literature, Staat (politicologie), Languages & Literatures, Poema del Cid, Spanish Literature, Verwantschap, Sociale klassen, Romance Literatures, Poema de mio Cid (anoniem), Clases sociales en la literatura, Parentesco en la literatura, Cantar de mio Cid, Spanish poetry, history and criticism
People: Cid (ca. 1043-1099)