Kinship and Polity in the Poema de Mio Cid (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781557530394)

This study of the social content of the only surviving Spanish epic provides a means of assessing the motives and intentions of the protagonist and of other characters. Chapters are devoted to such themes as the multifarious significance of kinship and lineage, with special attention to the role of fathers, uncles, and cousins in the world of clan loyalties; amity as a system of fictive kinship, personal honor, and public organization; the importance of women, and the meaning and function of marriage, dowry, and related practices; the emergence of the polity as a rivalry of social, legal, and economic systems; and the implications, within an essentially kin-ordered world, of the poem's notions of shame, honor, status, and social inequality.

Author: Michael Harney
ISBN-10: 1557530394
ISBN-13: 9781557530394
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1993
Pages: 285
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.22h x 6.00w x 0.99d