31
I must add that, although my unfavourable view of Bandera's book seems to be shared by most medievalists, two of the best Cid scholars, de Chasca and Dunn, think well of the book.
32
La idea de la fama en la Edad Media castellana (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1952), pp. 126-31.
33
The latest in a series of articles on the interpretation of this line is Octavio Armand, «El verso 20 del CMC», Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, XC (1972), 339-48.
34
See also my «Lyric Traditions in Non-Lyrical Genres», in Studies in Honor of Lloyd A. Kaste (Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1975), pp. 39-52.
35
Miguel Garci-Gómez, «La tradición del león reverente: glosas para los episodios en Mio Cid, Palmerín de Oliva, Don Quijote y otros», Kentucky Romance Quarterly, XIX (1972), 255-84, provides a very useful survey of the classical, Biblical and medieval tradition, and (pp. 279-82) comments sensibly on the function of the lion in PMC.
36
For example, Vinaver, The Rise of Romance (Oxford: Clarendon, 1971).