Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Ramón Menéndez Pidal. Poesía juglaresca y juglares: Aspectos de la Historia Literaria y Cultural de España. Buenos Aires: Espasa-Calpe.

Discusses the juglar, his audience, and his place in the medieval world from about 1130-1480. In the final chapter he looks at the juglar as poet and as a source of modern European literature who worked both in intimate relation to his audience and in a tradition which both permitted and controlled spontaneity.
Area: HI