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Cantar de mio Cid

Cantar de mio Cid

textual humanities text poem major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Anonymous, author

Canon Rationale

A major Iberian epic, included for exile, honor, frontier politics, manuscript transmission, vernacular epic, and medieval Spanish literary history.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 114.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Cantar de Mio Cid'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'The Lay of the Cid' translated by R. Selden Rose and Leonard Bacon.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency, attribution context required

Completion unit: read a complete translation or substantial scholarly selection of the Cantar de mio Cid. Record edition, translator, and manuscript/copy context.

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