Editing problems of the Romancero: the romantic tradition

Abstract

Since the romancero is one of the genres belonging to the so-called oral literature, it may seem, at first, inappropriate as a subject in a volume entitled "The Politics of Editing". One should remember, however, that the romancero, born as many other medieval genres, to be preserved by memory, found another way of life after the fifteenth century, when it started to become available in writing as well.