Includes 16 chapters, 6 of which are translated by Peter Mahoney.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Irene Zaderenko and Alberto Montaner -- 1 The Poema de mio Cid as Text: Manuscript Transmission and Editorial Politics / Alberto Montaner -- 2 The Question of Authorship / Irene Zaderenko -- 3 Why was the Poema de mio Cid Written Down the Way It was? / Roger Wright -- 4 A Closer Look at the Poema de mio Cid’s Language / Javier Rodríguez Molina -- 5 On the Arabic Loanwords in the Poema de mio Cid  / Federico Corriente -- 6 On the Poetic Technique of the Poema de mio Cid  / Juan Carlos Bayo Julve -- 7 “Mio Cid Ruy Díaz odredes lo que dixo”: The Voice of the Narrator, the Voice of the Characters / Salvatore Luongo -- 8 Oral Expression in the Poema de mio Cid  / Matthew Bailey -- 9 Episodic Logic and the Structure of the Poema de mio Cid  / Leonardo Funes -- 10 The Historical Context of the Poema de mio Cid  / Simon Barton -- 11 Social Structures and Values in the Poema de mio Cid  / Georges Martin -- 12 Legal Aspects of the Poema de mio Cid  / Eukene Lacarra Lanz -- 13 The Poema de mio Cid and the Canon of the Spanish Epic Revisited / Mercedes Vaquero -- 14 The Poema de mio Cid in 13th- and 14th-Century Romance Historiography / Francisco Bautista -- 15 The Cidian Matter in the 15th Century / Fernando Gómez Redondo -- 16 The Canonization of the Poema de mio Cid from the 18th to the 20th Century / Luis Galván -- Select Bibliography / Irene Zaderenko and Alberto Montaner -- Index / Irene Zaderenko and Alberto Montaner.

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This volume brings together a number of distinguished scholars in the field of Poema de mio Cid studies. It provides an informed introduction to key literary aspects of the poem, and thoroughly examines many of the complex issues that are crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the work (historical context, ideological motivations, prosification in medieval chronicles, the poem’s place in the canon of Spanish literature). Equally important are the new findings that have been put forward since the 1970s, when scholars started to challenge Ramón Menéndez Pidal’s theories that had dominated the philological discourse since the beginning of the twentieth century. Contributors are Matthew Bailey, Simon Barton, Francisco Bautista, Juan Carlos Bayo Julve, Federico Corriente, Leonardo Funes, Luis Galván, Fernando Gómez Redondo, Eukene Lacarra Lanz, Salvatore Luongo, Georges Martin, Alberto Montaner, Javier Rodríguez Molina, Mercedes Vaquero, Roger Wright, and Irene Zaderenko.

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