The Tradition of the Cantar de Sancho II in Fifteenth-Century Historiography

op: u' ENENDEZ Pidal's arguments on how epic texts were widely used by thirteenth and fourteenthcentury historians have received considerable attention (Catalan, Pattison, Powell, etc.). Very little note, however, has been taken of his ideas about the relationship between epic and historiography in the fifteenth century. According to him fifteenth-century historians did not take up new versions of the epic because they did not revise the old epic legends (Reliquias lxxiv).1 The story of Sancho II in several fifteenth-century chronicles demonstrates that on the contrary, the old epic legends were still being revised to some extent, and also that these revisions were not due exclusively to new stylistic criteria. For this paper I have used primarily the following sources: the Sumario de los reyes de Espania por el Despensero mayor de la Reyna doha Leonor (Sumario, before 1404), the Refundicidn del Sumario del Despensero de la reina dora Leonor (Sumario II, 1460-1470), the Libro de las bienandanzas efortunas (Bienandanzas) by Lope Garcia de Salazar

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