Si oviesse buen señor!": Ideal sovereign in medieval Spanish chronicle and epic
The article is dedicated to the study of main features of the "ideal monarch" character as it was developed in the Spanish medieval epic and historiographical prose. The surviving texts demonstrate a fundamentally different method of describing the kings in the epic and chronicles, which is manifested both in recurrent formulae / clichés accompanying the king's name and the acts committed by him. The "bookish" (scholarly) and narrative ("folkloristic") methods of introducing the ruler in one or another text may enable us to understand, which source - chronical text or tale existing in oral form - laid the foundation for the surviving text. Thus, in case of the Latin "Historia Roderici", representation of the character of king Alfonso VI the Brave and his relations with El Campeador makes it possible to quite safely assume the existence of an "oral" source of the Latin life.