Feb 5, 2017 23:43
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Spanish term

cantos homéricos, cantares de gesta, trovadores, juglares

Spanish to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
Por este motivo es posible que la poesía, quizá el arte verbal más antiguo, antes de la invención de la escritura, fuera prevalentemente no solo oral, sino también musicalizada, cantada. Cantar la poesía (cantos homéricos, cantares de gesta, trovadores, juglares) era una manera de transmitirla y preservarla bien en la memoria colectiva de un pueblo.
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Proposed translations

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Homeric hymns, chansons de gestes, troubadours, jugglers

Cantos Homericos: If the context requires a more general translation, you could replace this with "oral storytelling" or "bardic storytelling" (see ref. link on Oral storytelling and Homer's epic poems).
Taña's references are useful. "Chanson de geste" is right, I think. If the context, again, requires more general interpretation (eg the target reader is unlikely to know what a chanson de geste is) then this could be more roughly translated as something like "performance of Medieval poems".
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cantar de gesta > chanson de geste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanson_de_geste
****The chanson de geste, /ʃɑːnˈsɔːn də ˈʒɛst/ Old French for "song of heroic deeds" (from gesta: Latin: "deeds, actions accomplished"[1]), is a medieval narrative****, a type of epic poem that appears at the dawn of French literature.[2] The earliest known poems of this genre date from the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries, before the emergence of the lyric poetry of the trouvères (troubadours) and the earliest verse romances. They reached their apogee in the period 1150–1250.[3]

Composed in verse, these narrative poems of moderate length (averaging 4000 lines[4]) were originally sung, or (later) recited, by minstrels or jongleurs. More than one hundred chansons de geste have survived in around three hundred manuscripts[5] that date from the 12th to the 15th century.



https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantar_de_gesta
Cantar de gesta es el nombre dado a la epopeya escrita en la Edad Media o a una manifestación literaria extensa perteneciente a la épica que narra las hazañas de un héroe cuyas virtudes representan modelos para un pueblo o colectividad durante el Medievo.


You have too many terms in one question, so beware, the question may be removed. I suggest you repost each term individually with context. HTH!
Peer comments on this reference comment:

agree Cecilia Gowar
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Muchas gracias Cecilia. Un abrazo.
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