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Features John Gornall's book "The Invenciones of the British Library Cancionero," a companion to Ian MacPherson's edition of 'invenciones' in the "Cancionero General" published in the same series. Gornall's challenges to MacPherson's interpretations; Degree of the extant texts' relationship to historical tournaments; Distinction between the 'invencion' as a form of representation and 'invencion' as a literary form; Tendency to conflate 'divisas' and rubrics; Conventions of 'cancionero' poetry.