The world of El Cid : chronicles of the Spanish reconquest / selected sources translated and annotated by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barton, Simon, 1962-2017.

Fletcher, R. A. (Richard A.)

Series:

Manchester medieval sources series

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--711-1516--Sources.

Spain.

History.

Cid, approximately 1043-1099.

Cid.

Spain--History--711-1516.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

x, 281 pages : map ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Language Note:

Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

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 Leó n-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 Leó n-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 Dí az, 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

0719052254

0719052262

OCLC:

44915196