A Study Guide for Anonymous's "Cantar de mio Cid (El Cid)"
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El Cid
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Introduction
El Cid (Cantar de mio Cid) recounts the heroic deeds of the Cid, an exiled member of the lower nobility who wins back his king's favor by battling the Islamic inhabitants of Spain. A poem based on the exploits of an historical person, Rodrigo (Ruy) D'az de Vivar, (1040–1099), this epic offers an important example of the interaction of history and literature in the Middle Ages. El Cid is best known for its use of irony, heroic drama, and a rare strain of realism that incorporates multifaceted portraits of Moors, Jews, and Christians. One of the oldest Spanish documents in existence, it is also the only extant Spanish epic to have survived almost intact. It is contained in a fourteenth-century manuscript, which bears the date 1207, most likely referring to an earlier version of the poem that was copied in the later book.
Several accounts of the Cid's life existed before this epic poem was written in manuscript form. Two Latin poems, one written before the Cid's death and the other just after, chronicle his life. He is mentioned in Arabic sources, and his fame endured throughout the Middle Ages, in works of varying quality. El Cid has been well received as a work of literature for several centuries. The famous 1637 version of the poem Le Cid, by French dramatist Pierre Corneille, demonstrates its lasting popularity in Europe. Printed editions of the poem have existed since the eighteenth century. A fresh edition (1908) was published by the prominent Spanish medievalist, Ramén Menéndez Pidal. Menéndez Pidal's influential work El Cid ensured an international critical audience for this epic. A poem that treats basic themes such as national and religious identity, family honor, and personal prowess, El Cid has earned a lasting place in the ranks of great world literature.
Author Biography
Intense scholarly debate has raged over the identity of the author of El Cid. Basically, critics are divided into two camps, the traditionalists and the individualists. The former group, led by Ramón Menéndez Pidal, believes that the poem appeared as an oral composition soon after the historical Cid's death and was written in a manuscript only later, thus reducing the significance of the idea of a single author for the poem. The individualists, by contrast, (championed most by Colin Smith among others) insist that a single, brilliant author wrote the poem in 1207. Some critics point to Per Abbat, the name that appears at the end of the poem, as the author, although the text states that this person wrote
the text (escrivo), which indicates that he was the copyist rather than the author. Opinion on the subject is so divided that individualists tend to call the work the Poema
of the Cid, whereas traditionalists call it the Cantar,
or Song, of the Cid, to emphasize its oral origins. The interpretation of the text varies according to the a given critic with regards to the text's authorship and the author's intentions.
The person who wrote the 1207 version of the text was undoubtedly a talented author. The individualist school (especially the British Hispanists) insists that the author had extensive knowledge of the law and the Bible and used written historical documents to bolster the more historically sound sections of the epic. Traditionalists tend to discount