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Ramón Menéndez Pidal (Spanish pronunciation: [raˈmom meˈnendeθ piˈðal]; 13 March 1869 – 14 November 1968) was a Spanish philologist and historian. He worked extensively on the history of the Spanish language and Spanish folklore and folk poetry. One of his main topics was the history and legend of El Cid.
Mar 26, 2024 · Ramón Menéndez Pidal (born March 13, 1869, La Coruña, Spain—died Nov. 14, 1968, Madrid) was a scholar whose work on the origins of the Spanish language, as well as critical editions of texts, generated a revival of the study of medieval Spanish poetry and chronicles.
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May 4, 1997 · The basic work for understanding the historical background of the work is Ramon Menendez Pidal (1869-1968), The Cid and his Spain Translated by Harold Sunderland (London: F. Cass, 1971), while Colin Smith, The Making of the Poema de Mio Cid (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), and Richard Fletcher, The quest for El Cid ...
views 1,768,654 updated. Ramón Menéndez Pidal (rämōn´ mānān´dĕth pēŧħäl´), 1869–1968, Spanish scholar and philologist. Menéndez Pidal was a noted authority on Spanish epic literature and the Spanish language, and was also a major modern historian.
language; the second is that the Spanish language is the result of the evolution of the Peninsula‘s three central Romance dialects: Castilian, Astur-Leonese and Navarro-Aragonese. IV. CASTILIAN‘S LEADING ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPANISH Menéndez Pidal‘s best known view is his consistent claim that
Menéndez Pidal concludes that it is likely that the written evidence of the tenth century may well reflect the spoken language of the seventh or eighth centuries. Although conflicts of forces occur in any period, the particular era studied here shows a freer and more tenacious type of conflict because of the peculiar social circum-stances of ...
Apr 12, 2019 · Menéndez Pidal, Ramón, 1869-1968. Publication date 1950 Topics National characteristics, Spanish ... Language English. viii, 251 p. 23 cm Access-restricted-item true
