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The quest for El Cid / Richard Fletcher.
LIBRA - Special DP99 .F57 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fletcher, R. A. (Richard A.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cid, approximately 1043-1099.
- Cid.
- Spain--History--711-1516.
- Spain.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- Cid.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 217 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, [1991]
- Contents:
- Pt. 1: The problem and the method; Al-Andalus; The breaking of the necklace; The heirs of the Visigoths; A few men in a small land; Contemporaries
- Intermission: The sources
- Pt. 2: The Campeador; Exile in Zaragoza; The Alrnoravide invasion; The prince of Valencia; My Cid of Vivar.
- Notes:
- "First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1990"--T.p. verso.
- "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1991."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index.
- "Winner of the 1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History and the 1989 Wolfson Literary Award for History."
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fletcher, R. A. (Richard A.) Quest for El Cid.
- ISBN:
- 0195069552
- 9780195069556
- 0192852442
- 9780192852441
- OCLC:
- 56012775
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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