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The King and the Whore. King Roderick and La Cava.
Elizabeth Drayson
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Description for The King and the Whore. King Roderick and La Cava.
Paperback. This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 274 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; HBG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.
This study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349534951
SKU
V9781349534951
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Ref
99-15
About Elizabeth Drayson
ELIZABETH ANNE DRAYSON is a member of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and lecturer in Spanish at New Hall and Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.
Reviews for The King and the Whore. King Roderick and La Cava.
"Drayson's study contributes fresh insights into the existing scholarship on the subject. The first three chapters of her study, in particular, provide an invaluable resource on the background of the 'King Roderick and La Cava' legend, as Drayson painstakingly and comprehensively differentiated between history and legend, and with great clarity documents the differernt directions the legent takes early in its ... Read more