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Commentary on The Poem of the Cid
Title: Commentary on The Poem of the Cid
Category: History
Details: Words: 1759 | Pages: 7.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Commentary on The Poem of the Cid
Chris Irwin
Commentary on Poem of the Cid
Poetry played a vital role in the dissemination of information during the Crusade period. It provided a compact, easily memorized way of spreading news in a time bereft of the benefit of mass printing. According to Michael Routledge, who penned a chapter on Crusade songs and poetry in The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, poetry was not only a way of recording and spreading news of …showed first 75 words of 1759 total…
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Blackburn, Paul. trans. Poem of the Cid. ed. George Economou. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991).
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Routledge, Michael. "Songs". The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades. ed. Johnathon Riley Smith. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Schneider, Joe P. "El Cid". The Catholic Encyclopedia.
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