Bloch, Marc Feudal Society, 1 vols University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Marc Bloch's classic study of the society of the Middle Ages in the West includes a useful discussion of feudalism in Spain, tn Volume I, pp. 186-87.
Chssold, Stephen "El Cid: Moslems and Christians in Medieval Spain," History Today, Vol. 12, no. 5, May, 1962, pp. 321-28.
This article, written for the popular press and including interesting illustrations, was written after the 1961 film brought renewed attention to the Cid.
De Chasca, E El artejuglaresco en el"Cantor de mio Cid," 2d ed. Gredos, 1972.
De Chasca offers in-depth studies of the structure, form, and meaning of this epic, with chapters on the epic epithet, number symbolism, the role of time, and the epic's cultural context Deyermond, A. D. "The Singer of Tales and Medieval Spanish.....
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