by Lewis Spence · Senate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781859580202
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«Spain: Myths and Legends» is Lewis Spence's essay on mythology and folklore, published by Senate Books in paperback (432 pages, in English).
Lewis Spence's work gathers myths, legends and romances of Spain, from the battles of the Reconquista against the Muslims to folk tales and heroic figures of the medieval imagination. The approach combines history and traditional narrative to show how these stories forged Spanish cultural identity.
The 1994 edition of «Spain: Myths and Legends» revives the original 1920 work, «Legends & Romances of Spain», within the Myths & Legends series.
For readers of history, mythology and folklore interested in a classic view of the Spanish imagination.
James Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar. Spence was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, and vice-president of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society. He founded the Scottish National Movement.
