A proposed literary context for the Count of Barcelona episode of theCantar de Mio Cid
G. B. West
Click to increase image sizeClick decrease sizeBSS Subject Index: ARTHURIAN LITERATUREHISTORIA RODERICIIMITATION OF MODELSPOEMA DE MIO CID/CANTAR CID Notes 1. The historical Cid defeated Berenguer Ramon II on two occasions: first at Almenar in 1082, then the Pinar de Tévar 1090. Cantar episode is based this second encounter. All quotations arc from Poema mio Cid, ed. Colin Smith (Oxford 1972). Numbers parenthesis refer lines. 2. poet errs when he refers Count as ‘don Remont’ (987). protagonist involved was II, known ‘el Fratricida’. I have observed Catalan spelling for latter, but adopted accented Castilian form ‘Ramón’ character. 3. early twelfth-century Historia Roderici its account of battle tells us that afterwards a feast prepared, it far clear whether invited. phrase ‘victualia quippe sibi largiter ibidem dari sollicite precepit’ suggests who feasted, historian continues: ‘tandem uero liberum ad terram reucrti concessit’, where ‘sibi’ must Count. passage confused, evidently Menéndez Pidal and chroniclers Estoria España felt constrained opt Cantar’s version. For relevant Historia, see Pidal's edition his La del 4th edn (Madrid 1947), II,919 69, p. 947. further references are edition. 4. ‘The Barcelona’, HR, XXX (1962), 1–11, 7. 5. ‘Corned, conde, deste pan e beved vino’, Mio Cid. Estudios endocrítica (Barcelona 1975), 113–32. 6. Various critics commented passing episode. Dámaso Alonso discusses poet's comic technique portrayal ‘Estilo y creación en el OC, 1973), 107–43, pp. 130–31. Harold Moon, ‘Humour Cid’, Hisp (USA), XLIV (1963), 700–04, 702–03, considers be thoroughly humiliated by shows broad sense humour expense social superior. Smith, ‘Did repay Jews?’, R, LXXXVI (1965), 520–38, 525, emphasizes which sees amounting deliberate cruelty. Américo Castro, other hand, claims Cid's behaviour ‘proceder elegante señorial’ (‘Poesía realidad Hacia Cervantes, 3rd [Madrid 1967], 29–44, 38). Even nearer Garci-Gómez's view Jules Horrent who, basis Historia’s allusion feast, may even threatened starve himself ‘si sus instancias no eran escuchadas’ (Historia poesia torno al [Barcelona 1973], 37–38, n.63). would appear fallen into error suggested note 3 above. Finally, am grateful Professor Peter Bly Queen's University, Kingston (Canada), allowing me read yet unpublished paper ‘Food Thought or Alimentary Patterns Cid’. events after designed highlight ability cater men spite rigours exile. At end cantar, socially lowly infanzón entertains lavishly noble accustomed civilized comfortable life-style. thus not much concerned with fast, though course views do conflict mine. terms ‘France’ ‘the French’ here used loosely any one, all, territories corresponding modern France inhabitants area. 8. Alfonso X, Primera crónica general [i.e. España], Ramón Pidal, 2nd 1955), 563b. Eslona 9. poem, found vernacular Crónica la población Ávila (c. 1255), has recently been edited illuminatingly studied Francisco Rico, ‘Çorraquín Sancho, Roldán Oliveros: un cantar paralclístico castellano siglo XI!’, Homenaje memoria Don Antonio Rodríguez Moñino, 1910–1970 537–64. 10. Almería forms incomplete third section Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris, Luis Sánchez Belda 1950). 11. Sítense, Dom Justo Pérez Urbel Atilano González Ruiz-Zorrilla 1959), 130. 12. Éginhard, Vie Charlemagne, trans. Louis Halphen, (Paris 1938), 68–69. 13. See 154–55 Oxford MS Chanson Roland, F. Whitehead, 1946), 14. Johan Huizinga, Waning Middle Ages (1924; repr. New York 1954), 109. 15. poem (no. 149) included José María Alín El cancionero español tipo tradicional 1968), 364. notes Correas Vocabulario refrán ‘La que baño viene, bien sabe lo quiere’, together explanation ‘juntarse con varón’. 16. Karoli Magni et Rotholandi ou Chronique du Pseudo-Turpin, C. Meredith-Jones 1936), 180–81. 17. Roderici, 942, 944. 18. Mío R. [Vocabulario], 1969), 580. 19. Garei-Gómez, 129. referred Bly's study n.6. 20. Le Charroi Nîmes, Duncan McMillan 1972), 96,11. 810–13. 21. Guillaume, 1949–50), I, 46–47, 1042–8, 1054, 1057–8. 22. Couronnement Louis, Ernest Langlois, 19, 580–82 585–87, 60, 1927–30. AU 23. rey don décimo, Crónicas los reyes Castilla, BAE, LXVI 1875), 3–66, 12b. 24. Ages, 91. 25. Claude Régnier, Les rédactions vers prise d'Orange’ 1966), 106, 283–89. 26. An earlier version article Mediaeval Spanish Research Seminar Westfield College. comments made occasion also Alan Deyermond offered valuable suggestions improving revised draft.
Bulletin of Hispanic studies