The quest for El Cid
by Richard Fletcher
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An account of a confrontation that helped to form modern Europe through the story of Spain's first great national hero El Cid, the fearless warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile.
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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.
"Originally published in Great Britain by Century Hutchinson Ltd., London in 1989"--T.p. verso.
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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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