Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Alan D. Deyermond. Epic Poetry and the Clergy: Studies on the Mocedades de Rodrigo. London: Tamesis.

Considers the motif, epithet, formula, te chnique, and the role of the juglar in discussing the origins of the Mocedades as an oral dictated text whose clerical author has drawn on traditional epic and adapted it in emulation of another, learned poem. See especially pp. 155-76, 185-207.
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