Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Paper Sp 14

Spanish literature, life, and history before 1492

Reading list

HEALTH WARNING: These pages offer a detailed bibliography of useful works and recommended editions. The reading list caters for a wide range of possible interests. No individual undergraduate is expected to read all or even most of the items listed below. Note that most primary reading is available in the MML library, but that I recommend the UL for secondary reading. Some primary and secondary material is available on websites. For secondary material see: http://libro.uca.edu. Highly recommended reading is asterisked.

GENERAL (also see introduction)

History and Background

• Hillgarth, J.W., The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250-1516 (I: 1250-1410; II: 1410-1516), 1976 and 1978.
• Linehan, Peter, History and the Historians of Medieval Spain (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993).
• MacKay, A., Society, Economy and Religion in Late Medieval Castile, Variorum Collected Studies, CS261 (London: Variorum,1987).
• O'Callaghan, Joseph F., A History of Medieval Spain (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1975).
• The Art of Medieval Spain, AD 500-1200 (New York: Abrams for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993).
• Valdeón, Julio, José Ma. Salrach & Javier Zabalo, Feudalismo y consolidación de los pueblos hispánicos (siglos XI-XV), Historia de España, IV (Barcelona: Labor, 1980).

SET TEXTS

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN LECTURES

(1) Poema de mio Cid

Set text:

• EITHER: Cantar de mio Cid, Biblioteca Clásica, 1ed. Alberto Montaner (Barcelona: Cr'tica, 1993).
• OR: Poema de mio Cid, ed. C.C. Smith (Madrid: Cátedra, 1985).
• OR: Poema de mio Cid, ed. C.C. Smith (Madrid: Cátedra, reprints).
• OR: Poema de mio Cid, ed. Ian Michael, 2nd edn (Madrid: Clásicos Castalia, 1978 or reprints).

Consult:

• *Deyermond, A. D., "Mio Cid" Studies (London: Tamesis, 1977).
• Duggan, J. J., The "CMC": Poetic Creation in its Economic and Sial Contexts (Cambridge: UP, 1989).
• Harney, Michael, Kinship and Polity in the 'PMC', Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures, 2 (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1993).
• Lacarra, María Eugenia El "Poema de Mio Cid", realidad histórica e ideología (Madrid: Porrúa Turanzas, 1980).
• *López Estrada, Francisco, Panorama crítico sobre el "PMC" (Madrid: Castalia, 1982).
• Powell, B.J. & West, G., eds., "Al que en buen hora naçió': Essays on the Spanish Epic and Ballad in Honour of Colin Smith, Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 1996).
• Smith, C.C., Estudio cidianos (Madrid: CUPSA, 1977).
• Smith, C.C., The Making of the "Poema de mio Cid" (Cambridge: UP, 1983).

(2) Juan Ruiz, Libro de Buen Amor

Set text:

• Juan Ruiz, Libro de buen amor, ed., G. Gybbon-Monypenny, Clásicos Castalia, 161 (Madrid: Castalia, 1988).

Consult:

• Beltrán, Luis, Razones de buen amor: oposiciones y convergencias en el libro del Arcipreste de Hita, Pensamiento Literario Español, 5 (Valencia: Fundación Juan March Castalia, 1977).
• Dagenais, John, The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture: Glossing the "Libro de Buen Amor" (Princeton: UP, 1994).
• *Green, Otis H., Spain and the Western Tradition: The Castilian Mind in Literature from "El Cid" to Calderón, vol I; chap. 2 (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1963).
• *Gybbon-Monypenny, G.B., "LBA" Studies, Tamesis, A12 (London: Tamesis, 1970).
• *Haywood, Louise M., & Louise O. Vasvári, ed., Companion to the 'LBA', Támesis, A209 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004).
• Lecoy, Félix, Recherches sur le "LBA", rev. edn, A.D. Deyermond (Farnborough: Gregg, 1974).
• Linehan, Peter, The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life & Thought, 3rd ser., 4 (Cambridge: UP, 1971).
• Ruiz, Juan, The Book of Good Love, ed. & trans.,

(3) Juan Manuel, El conde Lucanor

Set text:

• Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor, ed. Guillermo Serés & intro. Germán Orduña, Biblioteca Clásica, 6 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1994).

Consult:

• Ayerbe-Chaux, Reinaldo. 'El conde Lucanor': Materia tradicional y originalidad creadora (Madrid: Porrúa Turanzas, 1975).
• Bloch, R. Howard, The Scandal of the Fabliaux (London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986).
• Biglieri, A., Hacia una poética del relato didáctico: ocho estudios sobre 'El Conde Lucanor' (Chapel Hill, 1989).
• Gelley, Alexander, Unruly Examples: On the Rhetoric of Exemplarity (Stanford, CA: UP, 1995): articles by Gelley, Keenan.
• *Macpherson, Ian, ed., Juan Manuel Studies, Tamesis, A60 (London: Tamesis, 1977).
• Manuel, Juan, A Selection, ed., Ian Macpherson (London: Tamesis, 1980).
• Sturcken, H.T., Don Juan Manuel (New York: Twayne, 1974).

(4) Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de Amor

Set text:

• Diego de San Pedro, Cárcel de amor, ed. Carmen Parrilla, Biblioteca Clásica, 17 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1995).

Consult

• Lewis, C. S., The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition (Oxford: UP, 1958).
• Dunn, Peter N., "Narrator as Character in CA", Modern Language Notes, 94 (1979), 187-99.
• Gilkison, Jean, "Language and Gender in Diego de San Pedro's CA", JHR 3 (1994-95), 113-24.
• Mandrell, James, "Author and Authority in Cárcel de amor: The Role of El Autor', JHP, 8 (1983-84), 99-122.
• Whinnom, Keith, Diego de San Pedro; TWAS, 10 (New York: Twayne, 1974).
• Parker, A. A., The Philosophy of Love in Spanish Literature, 1480-1680, ed. Terence O'Reilly (Edinburgh: UP, 1985).
• *San Pedro, Diego de, Obras completas: I, "Tractado de Amores de Arnalte y Lucenda" y "Sermón", ed. Keith Whinnom, Clásicos Castalia, 54 (Madrid: Castalia, 1973); II, "Cárcel de Amor", ed. Keith Whinnom, Clásicos Castalia, 39, 3rd edn (Madrid: Castalia, 1985); III, Poesías, ed. Dorothy S. Severin & Keith Whinnom, Clásicos Castalia, 98 (Madrid: Castalia, 1979): introductions to vols 1 & 2 highly recommended reading.

(5) Spectacle and the origins of drama

Set texts:

• Pérez Priego, Miguel Ángel, ed., Teatro medieval, II: Castilla, Páginas de la Biblioteca Clásica (Barcelona: Crítica, 1997).
• AND EITHER: Álvarez Pellitero, Ana María, Teatro medieval, Colección Austral, 157 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1990).
• OR Surtz, Ronald, Teatro castellano de la Edad Media, Clásicos Taurus, 13 (Madrid: Santillana, 1992).

Consult

• Castro, Eva, ed., Teatro medieval, I: El drama litúrgico, Páginas de la Biblioteca Clásica (Barcelona: Crítica, 1997).
• *Gómez Moreno, Ángel, El teatro medieval castellano en su marco románico, Persiles, 203 (Madrid: Taurus, 1991).
• *Stern, Charlotte, The Medieval Theater in Castile, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 156 (Binghamton: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996).

(6) Court poetry

Set text:

• Poesía de cancionero, ed., Alvaro Alonso, Letras Hispánicas, 247 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1991).

Consult

• Boase, Roger, The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love (Manchester: UP, 1977).
• Casas Rigall, Juan, Agudeza y retórica en la poesía amorosa de cancionero, Monografías da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 185 (Santiago de Compostela: Univ., 1995): this is a reference manual on rhetorical technique in court song.
• Fernández Jiménez, Juan, 'Algunos aspectos de la temática amorosa en el Cancionero de Baena', in Juan Alfonso de Baena y su cancionero, ed. Jesús L. Serrano Reyes & Juan Hernández Jiménez, Colección Biblioteca Baenese, 2 (Baena: Diputación de Córdoba, 2001), pp. 145-52: theme of love in Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, and Álvarez Villasandino.
• Gerli, E. Michael, & Julian Weiss, ed., Poetry at the Court in Trastamaran Spain: from the 'Cancionero de Baena' to the 'Cancionero general', Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies 181 (Tempe: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1998): collection of essays.
• Lacan, Jacques, 'Courtly Love as Anamorphosis', Seminar of Jacques Lacan: VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-60, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller, trans. Dennis Porter (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 139-54.
• *Macpherson, Ian, 'Secret Language in the Cancioneros: Some Courtly Codes', BHS, 62 (1985), 51-63: key study (with Whinnom's book in main section on love) on erotic word play.
• Macpherson, Ian, & Angus Mackay, 'Manteniendo la tela: el erotismo del vocabulario caballero-textil en la época de los Reyes Católicos', in Actas del primer congreso Anglo-Hispano: I, Lingü'stica, ed. Ralph Penny (Madrid: Castalia & AHGBI, 1993), pp. 25-36: more on erotic word play.
• Salvador Miguel, Nicasio, La poesía cancioneril: 'El cancionero de Estúñiga' (Madrid: Alhambra, 1977): study of Estúñiga poets.
• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Between Men and Male Homosocial Desire, Gender & Culture (NY: Columbia UP, 1985).
• Severin, Dorothy S., "Cancionero: un género mal-nombrado", Cultura Neolatina, 54 (1994), 95-105.
• Urbán Fernández, Ángel, & Salvador López Quero, 'Léxico sexual en el Cancionero de Baena', in Juan Alfonso de Baena y su cancionero, ed. Jesús L. Serrano Reyes & Juan Hernández Jiménez, Colección Biblioteca Baenese, 2 (Baena: Diputación de Córdoba, 2001), pp. 373-92: on Alfonso Alvárez de Villasandino.
• Whinnom, Keith, La poesía amatoria cancioneril en la época de los reyes católicos, Durham Modern Languages Series, 2 (Durham: Univ. 1981).
• Zizek, ��S�l�a�v�o�j�, 'Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing', in The Metastases of Enjoyment. Sex Essays on Woman and Enjoyment (London: Verso, 1994), pp. 89-112. Reprinted with an explanatory introduction in Elizabeth Wright & Edmund Wright, ed., The Zizek Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 148-73.

TOPICS

(1) "Female Voice and Representation of Women"

Set texts:

• Lírica española de tipo tradicional, ed. Margit Frenk, Letras Hispánicas, 60 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1990).
• Poesía de cancionero, ed., Alvaro Alonso, Letras Hispánicas, 247 (Madrid: Cátedra, (1991).
• Poesía femenina en los cancioneros, ed., Miguel Ángel Pérez Priego, Biblioteca de Escritoras, 14 (Madrid: Castalia, 1989).
• Colin Smith, Spanish Ballads, 2nd edn (Bristol: Classical Press, 1996).

Consult:

• Blay Manzanera, Vicenta, 'El varón que finge voz de mujer en las composiciones de cancionero', in Cultural Contexts/ Female Voices, ed., Louise M. Haywood, Publications of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 27 (London: Dept of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary & Westfield College), pp. 9-26; catalogue of a female-voice lyrics in the three early manuscript cancioneros; with a brief analysis; good bibliography.
• *Catarella, T., 'Feminine Historicizing in the romanero novelesco', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 67 (1990), 331-43.
• Cummins, John G., ed., The Spanish Traditional Lyric (Oxford: Pergamon, 1977).
• *Deyermond, Alan, 'Spain's First Women Writers', in Beth Miller, ed., Women in Hispanic Literature: Icons and Fallen Idols (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), pp. 27-52; on Florencia Pinar, amongst others.
• Dyermond, Alan, Point of View in the Ballad: The Prisoner, the Lady and the Shepherd, and Others, The Kate Elder Lecture, 7 (London: Dept of Hispanic Studies, QMW, 1996).
• Dronke, Peter, Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric, I: Problems and Interpretations (Oxford: Clarendon, 1965).
• Frenk, Margit, Symbolism in Old Spanish Folk Songs, The Kate Elder Lecture, 4 (London: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, 1993).
• *Fulks, Barbara, 'The Poet Named Florencia Pinar', C, 18.1. (1989): 33-44.
• Mirrer, Louise, 'Gender, Power, and Language in the Poems of Florencia Pinar', in her Women, Jews, and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile, Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization, 8 (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996).
• Reckert, S., Lyra minima. Structure and symbolism in Iberian traditional verse (London,1970).
• Sponsler, L. A., Women in Medieval Spanish Epic and Lyric Traditions (Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1975).
• Vasvári, Louise O., The Heterotextual Body of the 'Mora morilla', PMHRS, 12 (London: Queen Mary & Westfield College, 1999).
• Whetnall, Jane, 'Lírica femenina in the Early Manuscript Cancioneros', in What's Past Is Prologue: A Collection of Essays in Honour of L. J. Woodward, ed., Salvador Bacarisee et al (Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1984), pp. 138-50: essential study of the lyrics by named women poets.
• Whetnall, Jane, 'Isabel González and Other Lost Voices of the Cancionero de Baena', C, 21.1 (1992), 59-82: study of allusions to women poets.
• *Wright, Roger, Spanish Ballads, Critical Guides to Spanish Texts, 57 (London: Grant & Cutler, 1991).

(2) Living Well, Dying Well

(a) Sin and Sanctity

Set texts:

• Berceo, Gonzalo de, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, ed., Isabel Ur&iaacute;a, Biblioteca Clásica, 3 (Barcelona: Cr'tica, 1997).
• La vida de santa María Egipciaca, ed. Manuel Alvar, in his Antigua poesía española lírica y narrativa, Sepan Cuántos..., 151 (Buenos Aires: Porrúa, 1981).
• Libro de la infancia y la muerte de Jesús, ed. Manuel Alvar, in his Antigua poesía española l7iactue;rica y narrativa, Sepan Cuántos..., 151 (Buenos Aires: Porrúa, 1981).

For more texts by Berceo see: http://www.geocities. com/urunuela1/berceo/berceo1.htm

For more saints' lives see: http://web.uniovi. es/CEHC/manuscritos_impresos/man_8bmp.htm

Consult:

• Bloomfield, M. W., Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction (Michigan, 1952).
• Kristeva, Julia, The Powers of Horror: An Essay in Abjection (New York: Columbia UP, 1982).
• Oyola, Eliezer, 1979. Los pecados capitales en la literatura medieval española, Biblioteca Universal Puvill,; Ensayos, 3 (Barcelona: Puvill); rev. A Gier, Zeitschrift zur Romanische Philologie, 95 (1979): 533-35; Celestinesca, 4.2 (1980).
• Richard, Robert, "Les péchés capitaux dans le Libro de buen amor", Les Lettres Romanes, 20 (1966), 7-37.
• Vasvari, Louise O., "La digresión sobre los pecados mortales y la estructura del LBA", Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica, 34 (1985-86), 156-80.
• Ward, Benedicta, Miracles and the Medieval Mind: Theory, Record and Event, 1000-1215 (London: Scolar, 1982).

(b) Death and Dying: See Learning Resource Webpage

Set texts:

• Berceo, Gonzalo de, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, ed., Isabel Ur&iaacute;a, Biblioteca Clásica, 3 (Barcelona: Cr'tica, 1997).
• Manrique, Jorge, 'Coplas por la muerte de su padre' (in all eds. of JMs work; see Jorge Manrique, Poesía, Letras Hispánicas, 38 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1990), pp. 148-75.
• Dança general de la muerte (several editions; see especially ed. Ana María Álvarez Pellitero, Teatro medieval, Colección Austral, 157 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1990), pp. 279-319).
• Don Juan Manuel, El Conde Lucanor, Biblioteca Clásica, 6 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1994) (exempla 4, 14, 40, 44, 45, 47 & 49).
• Account of Fernando de Antequera's coronation disguising (Miguel Ángel Pérez Priego, Teatro medieval: II, Castilla, Páginas de la Biblioteca Clásica (Barcelona: Crítica, 1997), pp. 240-46).
• Also of interest, Ars moriendi in Castilian: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/library/ib/texts/ars/intro.html (great wood cuts!)

Consult

• Lapesa, R., "El tema de la muerte en el LBA", in his De la Edad Media a nuestros días (1967), pp. 53-75.
• Infantes, Víctor, Las danzas de la muerte: genesis y desarrollo de un género (siglos XIII-XVII), Acta Salmanticensia; Estudios Filológicos , 267 (Salamanca; Ediciones Universidad, 1997).
• *Binski, Paul, Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation (London: British Museum, 1996)
• Boase, T. R., Death in the Middle Ages: Mortality, Judgment and Remembrance (London, 1972)
• *Guiance, Ariel, Los discursos sobre la muerte en la Castilla medieval: siglos VII-XV, Estudios de Historia (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura, 1998).
• Murray, Alexander, 1998. Suicide in the Middle Ages, I: The Violent against Themselves (Oxford: UP, 1998); II: The Curse on Self-Murder (Oxford: UP, 2000).
• O'Connor, Mary Catharine, The Art of Dying Well: The Development of the "Ars moriendi" (New York: AMS, 1966). (First publ. New York: Columbia UP, 1942).
• Lawrence, Jeremy, 'La muerte y el morir en las letras ibéricas al fin de la Edad Media', in Actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas: 21-26 de agosto de 1995, Birmingham, ed. Aengus M. Ward, I, Medieval y Lingüística,(Birmingham: Department of Hispanic Studies, Univ., 1998), pp. 1-26.
• Núñez, M., & E. Portela, ed., La idea y el sentimiento de la muerte en la historia y en el arte de la Edad Media: Ciclo de conferencias celebrado del 1 al 5 de diciembre de 1986, ed. M., Colección Aula Abierta (Santiago de Compostela: Servicio de Publicación e Intercambio Cientifico da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1988).
• Vivanco, Laura, Death in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Ideologies of the Elites, Colección Tamesis, A 205 (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2004).

(3) Landscape, Space, and the Marvellous

Set texts:

• Poema de Fernán González, ed. Juan Victorio, Letras Hispánicas, 151 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1984).
• Berceo, Gonzalo de, Milagros de Nuestra Señora, ed., Isabel Uría, Biblioteca Clásica, 3 (Barcelona: Crítica, 1997).
• AND EITHER: Libro de Alexandre, ed. Jesús Cañas, Letras Hispánicas, 280 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1988)
• OR: 'Libro de Alexandre': Texts of the Paris and the Madrid Manuscripts, ed. Raymond S. Willis, Elliott Monographs in the Romance Languages & Literatures, 488 (Princeton: UP, 1943).

Cañas offers a modern critical edition and Willis a palaeographic edtion.

Consult

• Alcock, Susan E., & Robin Osborne, ed., Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996); see Polignac & Wright.
• Arias, Consuelo, 'El espacio femenino en tres obras del medioevo español: de la reclusión a la transgresión', La Torre, 1 (1987), 365-88.
• Deyermond, Alan, & David Hook, 1979. 'Doors and Cloaks: Two Image-Patterns in the Cantar de Mio Cid', Modern Language Notes, 94: 366-77.
• Dubost, Francis, Aspects fantastiques de la littérature narrative (XIIe et XIIIe siècles): L'autre, l'ailleurs, l'autrefois (Paris: Champion, 1991).
• Frye, Northrop, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-88, ed., Robert D. Denham, (Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1990).
• Grieve, Patricia L., 'Shelter as Image-Pattern in the Cantar de Mio Cid', La córonica, 8: (1979-80), 44-49.
• Haywood, Louise, M., 'Symbolic Space and Landscape in the Poema de Mio Cid', 'Mio Cid' Studies: 'Some Problems of the Diplomatic' Fifty Years On, ed. Alan Deyermond, David G. Pattison, & Eric Southworth, Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar, 42 (London: Dept of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary & Westfield College, 2002), pp. 105-28.
• Kus, Susan M., 1983. 'The Social Representation of Space: Dimensioning the Cosmological and the Quotidian', in James A. Moore & Arthur S. Keene, ed., Archaeological Hammers and Theories, Studies in Archaeology (London: Academic Press), pp. 278-299.
• *Le Goff, Jacques, The Medieval Imagination (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988).
• Marcus, Jane, 1995. 'Bonding and Bondage: Nancy Cunard and the Making of the Negro Anthology', in Mae G. Henderson, ed. Borders, Boundaries, and Frames: Essays in Cultural Criticism and Cultural Studies (London: Routledge), pp. 33-63.
• *Montgomery, Thomas,1987. 'The Rhetoric of Solidarity in the Poema de mio Cid', Modern Language Notes, 102: 191-205.
• ----, 1998. Medieval Spanish Epic: Mythic Roots and Ritual Language, Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvannia State Univ. Press).
• Rowlands, Michael, 1987. 'Centre and Periphery: A Review of a Concept', in his, Mogens Larsen & Kristian Kristiansen, ed., Centre and Periphery in the Ancient World (Cambridge: UP), pp. 1-11.
• Rumina, Sethi, Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999).
• *Stratho, Bo, Myth and Memory in the Construction of a Community: Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond (New York: Peter Land, 2000).

(4) Treachery and Taboo in Medieval Epic and Epic Legend

Set texts:

• Épica medieval española, ed., Carlos Alvar & Manuel Alvar, Letras Hispánicas, 330 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1991).
• Mocedades de Rodrigo, ed. Juan Victorio, Clásicos Castalia, 226 (Madrid: Castalia, 1982).
• Libro de Apolonio, ed. Dolores Corbella Díaz, Letras Hispánicas, 348 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1992).

Consult:

• Bluestine, Carolyn, 'The Power of Blood in the Siete Infantes de Lara', Hispanic Review, 50 (1982), 201-17.
• ----, 'Foreshadows of the Doppelgänger in the Siete Infantes de Lara and the Romanz del Infant García', Romance Philology, 38 (1984-85), 463-74.
• *----, 'Traitors, Vows, and Temptresses in the Medieval Spanish Epic', Romance Quarterly, 33 (1986): 53-61.
• Deyermond, Alan, 1976. 'Medieval Spanish Epic Cycles: Observations on their Formation and Development', Kentucky Romance Quarterly, 23: 282-303.
• *----, 1988. 'La sexualidad en la épica medieval española', Nueva Revista de Filología Española, 36: 767-86.
• Freud, Sigmund, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974): see 'The development of the libido and the sexual organisations'.
• ----, Totem and Taboo (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950): see 'The Horror of Incest'.
• *Montgomery, Thomas, Medieval Spanish Epic: Mythic Roots and Ritual Language, Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvannia State Univ. Press, 1998).
• *Montgomery, Thomas, Medieval Spanish Epic: Mythic Roots and Ritual Language, Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures (Pennsylvania: Pennsylvannia State Univ. Press, 1998).
• Pattison, D. GH., 1983. From Legend to Chronicle: The Treatment of Epic Material in Alphonsine Historiography, Medium Aevum Monographs, ns 13 (Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages & Literature).
• Segal, Robert, Hero Myths (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).
• Vaquero, Mercedes, Tradiciones orales en la historiograf'a de fines de la Edad Media (Madison: HSMS, 1990).
• Zaderenko, Irene, 'El tema de la traición en Los siete infantes de Lara y su tradición en la épica románica', Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (Glasgow), 78 (2001), 177-90.

(5) Myth, History, and Nation Building

Set texts:

• Antología de Alfonso X el Sabio, ed. Antonio G. Solalinde, Colección Austral, 169 (Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1941 & reprs.)
• Alfonso el Sabio, Prosa histórica, ed. B. Brancaforte, Letras Hispánicas, 194 (Madrid: Cátedra, 1984).

Consult

• Bhaba, Homi, Nation and Narration (London: Routledge, 1990).
• Burns, Robert I., ed., Emperor of Culture: Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and his Thirteenth-Century Renaissance (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
• ----, ed., The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror: Intellect and Force in the Middle Ages, 1985
• Lewis, Bernard, History, Remembered, Recovered, Invented (Princeton: UP, 1975).
• *O'Callaghan, Joseph F., The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
• ----, Alfonso X and the "Cantigas de Santa María": A Poetic (Leiden: Brill, 1998).
• Rico, Francisco, Alfonso el Sabio y la "General Estoria", Letras e Ideas Minor, 3 (Barcelona: Ariel, 1972).
• Smalley, Beryl, Historians in the Middle Ages (London: Thames & Hudson, 1974).
• Socarrás, C., Alfonso X of Castile. A Study on Imperialistic Frustration, (Barcelona: Hispan, 1976).
• Van Kleffens, E.K., Hispanic Law until the end of the Middle Ages, Edinburgh: UP, 1968.)

(6) Crisis and Conflict in the Fifteenth-Century

Set texts:

• Leonor L&ocute;pez de C&ocute;rdoba, Memorie, ed. Lia Vozzo Mendia (Parma: Pratiche, 1992) or ed. Reinaldo Ayerbe-Chaux, Journal of Hispanic Philology, 2 (1977-78), 11-33.
• *Juan de Mena, 'Laberinto de Fortuna' y otros poemas, ed. Carla de Nigris, Biblioteca Clásica, 14 (Barcelona: Clásica, 1994).
• F. Pérez de Guzmán, Generaciones y semblanzas, Clásicos Castalia or ed. R.B. Tate. Colecció Támesis, B2 (London, 1965).
• *Marqués de Santillana, 'Comedieta de Ponza', sonetos, serranillas y otras obras, ed. Regula Rohland de Langbehn, Biblioteca Cr'tica, 12 (Barcelona: Cr'tica, 1997).

* = these two volumes are well annotated, and have excellent bibliographies.

Consult:

• Elliott, J.H., Imperial Spain (1469-1716) (London, 1963) (early sections).
• Firpo, Arturo R., 'L'idéologie du lineage et les images de la familie dans les Memorias de LLC (1400)', La Moyen Âge, 87 (1981), 243-62.
• Fernández-Armesto, F., Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonisation from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987).
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