The Cid And His Spain
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The Cid and His Spain
Author | : Ramón Menéndez Pidal |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2016-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134982479 |
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This study of El Cid, first published in English in 1934, is by the leading authority on the medieval history and literature of Spain. The Cid occupies a unique position among national heroes. Others such as King Arthur and Roland are but shadowy figures in the historical record, but El Cid is very much better documented. This book also paints a striking picture of eleventh-century Spain, bringing out the importance of the country as a link between Christian and Muslim civilization.
The Quest for El Cid
Author | : Richard A. Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195069552 |
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Rodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between eleventh-century reality and the mythology that developed later. By placing El Cid in a fresh, historical context, Fletcher shows us an adventurous soldier of fortune who was of a type, one of a number of "cids," or "bosses," who flourished in eleventh-century Spain. But the El Cid of legend--the national hero -- was unique in stature even in his lifetime. Before his death El Cid was already celebrated in a poem; posthumously he was immortalized in the great epic Poema de Mío Cid. When he died in Valencia in 1099, he was ruler of an independent principality he had carved for himself in Eastern Spain. Rather than the zealous Christian leader many believe him to have been, Rodrigo emerges in Fletcher's study as a mercenary equally at home in the feudal kingdoms of northern Spain and the exotic Moorish lands of the south, selling his martial skills to Christian and Muslim alike. Indeed, his very title derives from the Arabic word sayyid, meaning 'lord' or 'master.' And as there was little if any sense of Spanish nationhood in the eleventh century, he can hardly be credited for uniting a medieval Spanish nation. This ground-breaking inquiry into the life and times of El Cid disentangles fact from myth to create a striking portrait of an extraordinary man, clearly showing how and why legend transformed him into something he was not during his lifetime.--From publisher description.
The World of El Cid
Author | : Simon Barton,Richard Fletcher |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719052262 |
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This book makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of León-Castile during the 11th and12th centuries. The four chronicles were all composed in an unprecedented surge of Spanish historical writing between c.1110 and c.1150. Three of them focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of León-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando I (1037-65), his son Alfonso VI (1065-1109) and the latter's grandson Alfonso VII (1126-57). The fourth chronicle is a biography of the hero Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christians and Muslims alike.
The Cid and His Spain
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Author | : Ramon Menendez Pedal |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:299918452 |
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El Cid
Author | : Rosamund Fowler |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0192741969 |
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El Cid is the best soldier in Castile. When he is unfairly banished from court, the Spanish hero sets off on a campaign against the Moorish invaders of Southern Spain to win back favour. After many battles and conquests, El Cid is forgiven. But he comes home to face one last terrible battle and, ultimately, his death.
In Search of the Cid
Author | : Stephen Clissold |
Publsiher | : London : Hodder and Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Cantar de mío Cid |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105041468104 |
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The Lay of the Cid
Author | : Anonymous |
Publsiher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2022-08-10 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547161257 |
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The national epic of Spain, written in the twelfth century about Rodrigo Diaz of Bivar, conqueror of Valencia, who only died in 1099 but had already become a legend. Rendered into vigorous English rhymed couplets of seven iambic feet in 1919.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
Author | : Anthony Bale |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108474511 |
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This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.