Title: Geographies of philological knowledge
Description: This work examines the relationship between medievalism and colonialism in the 19th-century Hispanic American context through the striking case of the Creole Andrés Bello (1781-1865), a Venezuelan grammarian and politician, and his lifelong philological work on the medieval heroic narrative 'The Poem of the Cid'.
Subjects: Study and teaching, History and criticism, Philology, Medievalism, Spanish Epic literature, Cid (Epic cycle), Postcolonialism, Middle Ages, History, Latin america, history, Epic literature, history and criticism
Places: Latin America
People: Andrés Bello (1781-1865)
Time periods: 19th century