Ecology of a master motif: cattle raiding in late medieval Spain in light of cross-cultural evidence.
Cattle raiding as a motif figures prominently in early Castilian literature. The author attempts to explain why by describing cattle raiding as symbol and practice. Cattle raiding is a master motif in early literature from Greek myth to the Bible to medieval European epic to the early literature of...
| Published in: | Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 1 - 22 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2018
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