Article Title：The epic tradition of the 'Enfances ' of Charlemagne and the lost 'Cantar de Mainete'
Abstract：
In this article, I try to offer a revision of the problems in the tradition and evolution of Charlemagne's youthful exploits epic legend and to reconsider the possibility of a Spanish epic poem on this subject. To do so, it is one of my concerns to explain the relationship between the two main summaries of the legend in medieval Spanish literature: the one contained in the Estoria de Espana, and the cyclic version contained in the Gran conquista de Ultramar and the Cronica fragmentaria. On the other hand, I reconsider the allusions to this legend in the Iberian Peninsula along the XIIIth -century, in order to show that these allusions only present the narration of the life of Charles in Toledo, proving the unity of this mentions and the kind of evolution of the legend. Finally, I analyze the summary of the EE, which allows to secure the existence of a Castilian epic poem translated from a lost French chanson de geste, probably around the end of the XIIth-century or the beginnings of the XIIIth-century.
Keywords: medieval Spanish epic; Charlemagne's youthful exploits; medieval historiography
DOI: 10.3989/rfe.2003.v83.i3/4.130
Source：REVISTA DE FILOLOGIA ESPANOLA
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