1
For the beginnings of Cid scholarship, see Colin Smith's survey, 109 pp. lxxxi-lxxxvii. Michael Magnotta's PhD thesis, «Historia de la crítica sobre el PMC» (Case Western Reserve Univ., 1969) is, I understand, to be published in revised form as a book. One section has already been published as an article in Anuario de Letras, IX (1971), 51-98, and another is to appear in HR, XLIII (1975).
2
See Pedro Grases, La épica española y los estudios de Andrés Bello sobre el Poema del Cid (Caracas: Ragón, 1954); Rodolfo Oroz, «Andrés Bello y el Poema del Cid», RFE, XLVII (1964 [1967]), 437-43.
3
Menéndez Pidal does not try to answer Babbitt in his «Adiciones». For the latest state of the question, see 109 pp. 172-6.
4
«Remarks Concerning the Historical Account of Spanish Epic Origins», Revue Hispanique, LXXXI, part I (1933), 352-77.
5
A minority of contributors use the Menéndez Pidal critical text.
6
This change, due immediately to the influence of Bédier, probably reflects a much wider one: the extrovert, optimistic nineteenth century, believing in self-improvement, the perfectibility of human nature and human institutions, and the inevitability of progress, was understandably confident of its ability to reconstitute the perfect text. Today, battered by world wars, economic crises and the decline of the West, undermined by Freud's revelations and by the retreat from religion, we look more suspiciously on our textual intuitions, and hold more tightly to the security of the extant MS.
7
This edition is a much reduced version of that originally commissioned by the publishers and completed in 1972. It is likely that the full version will in due course be published in Spain.
8
The position does not seem as clear to me as to Lomax: see 29 p. 103n.
9
One of the more confusing aspects of this controversy is that Menéndez Pidal (64 p. 1165) cites Hinojosa in support of early composition, omitting the vital words «la segunda mitad» [del siglo XII].
10
It is, for example, not mentioned in Menéndez Pidal's list of those who «Sobre la fecha del Cantar de Medinaceli han escrito últimamente» [i. e. from 1947 onwards] (74 p. 222). The omission is pointed out by Pardo, 88a p. 271n.