Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Alan D. Deyermond. "Juglar's Repertoire or Sermon Notebook?_The Libro de Buen Amor and a Manuscript Miscellany." Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, 51:217-27.

Disagrees with the conventional w isdom of viewing the two manuscript fragments of the Libro as at opposite ends of a spectrum: one by the Toledan humanist Alvar Gómez de Castro and the other supposedly from a minstrel's repertoire, specifically that of a lowly juglar cazurro. Lea rned features of the latter preclude seeing it as an oral dictated text or rhapsode's prompt book. Prefers to call it either a more sophisticated juglar's performance, a lesser florilegium, or a sermon notebook.
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