The Knight of the Lions episode tips its hat to the medieval Spanish epic Poem of the Cid, which featured a knight known as the Knight of Lions and involved battles against lions, demonstrating Cervantes' engagement with and parody of medieval epic tradition.
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Unidentified Speaker — Great Authors - Literature of the Renaissance - Cervantes, … [D-GPmkVu_cY]Evidence Quote
“the night of the lions...tips its hat to an earlier tradition in spanish literature back to the poem of the sid...cervantes way of...tipping his hat to the medieval epic”
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