Quest for el Cid

Name: Quest for el Cid
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ISBN: 9780195069556

ISBN-10: 0195069552

ISBN-13: 9780195069556

Edition: 1991

Authors: Richard Fletcher

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Rodrigo Diaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is remembered today as the Christian hero of the Spanish crusade who waged wars of re-conquest for the triumph of the Cross over the Crescent. He is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as Richard Fletcher shows in this award-winning book, there are many contradictions between eleventh-century reality and the mythology that developed with the passing years. 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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.56" wide x 5.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English