The text, first published in 1920, provides a comprehensive review of Spanish and Portuguese romances of chivalry, with information on their origins in the Iberian Peninsula around the turn of the fifteenth century and how they went on to spread across Western Europe. Detailed notes, appendices and a bibliography are also included.
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Spanish and Portuguese romances of chivalry: the revival of the romance of chivalry in the Spanish Peninsula, and its extension...
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150–53 ; Sarah Roche - Mahdi , ed . and trans . , Silence : A Thirteenthcentury French Romance ( East Lansing , 1992 ) ; H. Oskar ... Edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum , II : L'Estoire de Merlin ( Washington , 1908 ) , pp .
4 Thomas lists 39 Spanish and Portuguese chivalric novels, of which only three came out before Don Quixote. Henry Thomas, Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry: The Revival of the Romance of Chivalry in the Spanish Peninsula, ...
Pastora is a surrogate for both Pamphilia and Wroth, and her story must be read as a warning or a threat about how constancy may lead not only to unhappiness but to self-destruction. Steriamus finds Lady Pastora, alone, on a rock, ...
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3 For further critiques on romances' “poisonous” nature, see B.W. Ife, Reading and Fiction in Golden-Age Spain: A ... Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry: The Revival of the Romance of Chivalry in the Spanish Peninsula, ...