Abstract
Abstract: Catherine Brown considers Ramón Menéndez Pidal's theory of the origins of the Spanish epic as fragments of a complete, lost text. Brown compares Pidal's theory to that of medieval reliquaries. To become a relic, an object must be torn from its context (body or grave), encased in text, and renarratized. Such is the operation of Pidal's work, Reliquias de la poesía épica española , which, according to Brown's analysis, exhumes, reorders, and reconstructs the Castilian epic corpus from the fragments buried in the chronicles.
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