The quest for El Cid
by 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.
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History, Heroes, Biography, Spain, history, Cid, approximately 1043-1099, Histoire, NobilityPeople
Cid (ca. 1043-1099), CidPlaces
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The quest for El Cid
1990, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
in English
- 1st American ed.
0394574478 9780394574479
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.
"First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1990"--T.p. verso.
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