The World of El CID
Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2013
296 pages
978-1-5261-1263-7 (ISBN)
Description
Makes available, for the first time in English translation, four of the principal narrative sources for the history of the Spanish kingdom of Leon-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles focus primarily upon the activities of the kings of Leon-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 Diaz, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christian and Muslim alike. Covers the fascinating interaction of the Muslim and Christian worlds, each at the height of their power. Each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-1263-7 (9781526112637)
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11/2000
Manchester University Press
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Persons
Simon Barton is Reader in Medieval Spanish History at the University of Exeter Richard Fletcher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York
Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Map
- Genealogical table
- Dedication
- General introduction
- I: Historia Silense
- II: Bishop Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, Chronicon Regum Legionensium
- III: Historia Roderici
- IV: Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris
- Bibliography
- Index
