Download or read book Spanish and Portuguese Romances of Chivalry written by Henry Thomas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1920 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text, first published in 1920, provides a comprehensive review of Spanish and Portuguese romances of chivalry, with information on their origins in the Iberian Peninsula around the turn of the fifteenth century and how they went on to spread across Western Europe. Detailed notes, appendices and a bibliography are also included.