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The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher · Booklabria

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The Quest for El Cid

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The Quest for El Cid

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First published: 1989
Language: English
Editions: 5

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Biography
Histoire
Nobility
Heroes
Spain, history
Set in: Spain
Time: 711-1516
Characters: Cid

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