NOTES MENÉNDEZ PIDAL AND THECHANSON DE ROLAND
F. Whitehead
Don Ramon's latest work, La Chanson de Roland y el neotradicionalismo, is an outstanding intellectual achievement. Encyclopaedic in scope, it reviews all the classical problems of criticism and has something important to say on each. The original Spanish edition 1959 was published following year a revised somewhat expanded French translation, which takes into account proceedings at memorable table ronde Poitiers summer 1959, Ramon defended his thesis against some most illustrious figures mediaeval scholarship with zeal, vigour untiring mental energy that amazed delighted those present.
Bulletin of Hispanic studies