Key topics: Don Juan Manuel, Conde Lucanor — Ejemplo XXXV ('Lo que sucedió a un mancebo que se casó con una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava'), Anonymous, 'Romance de la pérdida de Alhama' — Romancero tradition, Medieval narrative prose: exemplum form, didactic purpose, frame narrative, Oral tradition features: formulaic epithets, parallelism, assonant rhyme in the romance, Reconquista historical and cultural context, Archaic Castilian: vocabulary, syntax, and conventions of 14th–15th century Spanish.
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