El Cid Campeador
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The World Of El Cid
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Author : Simon Barton
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2000
The World Of El Cid written by Simon Barton and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
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 León-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 León-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 Díaz, 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.
The Quest For El Cid
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Author : Richard A. Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1991
The Quest For El Cid written by Richard A. Fletcher and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Rodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as this book reveals, there are many contradictions between eleventh-century reality and the mythology that developed later. By placing El Cid in a fresh, historical context, Fletcher shows us an adventurous soldier of fortune who was of a type, one of a number of "cids," or "bosses," who flourished in eleventh-century Spain. But the El Cid of legend--the national hero -- was unique in stature even in his lifetime. Before his death El Cid was already celebrated in a poem; posthumously he was immortalized in the great epic Poema de Mío Cid. When he died in Valencia in 1099, he was ruler of an independent principality he had carved for himself in Eastern Spain. Rather than the zealous Christian leader many believe him to have been, Rodrigo emerges in Fletcher's study as a mercenary equally at home in the feudal kingdoms of northern Spain and the exotic Moorish lands of the south, selling his martial skills to Christian and Muslim alike. Indeed, his very title derives from the Arabic word sayyid, meaning 'lord' or 'master.' And as there was little if any sense of Spanish nationhood in the eleventh century, he can hardly be credited for uniting a medieval Spanish nation. This ground-breaking inquiry into the life and times of El Cid disentangles fact from myth to create a striking portrait of an extraordinary man, clearly showing how and why legend transformed him into something he was not during his lifetime.--From publisher description.
The Cid Campeador A Historical Romance
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Author : António de Trueba
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Cid Campeador A Historical Romance written by António de Trueba and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
The Cid Campeador
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Author : Antonio de Trueba
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-05-18
The Cid Campeador written by Antonio de Trueba and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-18 with Fiction categories.
"The Cid Campeador" by Antonio de Trueba is a historical romance novel. The "Cid Campeador" has been for centuries the great popular hero of Spain. He takes the same place in that country as King Arthur does in England, Roland, or Rolando, in France, and William Tell in Switzerland; and, like them, his life and exploits are, to a great extent, founded on popular traditions. In English-speaking countries, there is very little known respecting him, and the translator ventures to place before the public a work which is considered by Spaniards to be one of the best historical romances in their literature. It is founded on a large number of ballads and other poetical pieces, extant in Spain for centuries, and on a very old work named "The Chronicle of the Cid."
El Cid Campeador
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Author : Henry Washington Lee
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-03-17
El Cid Campeador written by Henry Washington Lee and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-17 with Drama categories.
Excerpt from El Cid Campeador: An Opera in Three Acts, Eight Scenes Around the personality and the exploits of Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, El Cid Campeador, have clustered more ballads and legends and folk lore than have fallen to the lot of any other Spanish hero of romance. The Cid is the national hero of Spain and he flourished and wrought mighty deeds in that golden era when knighthood was in flower, when chivalry was at its height, the age of the crusades, when Moor and Spaniard contested for possession of the Iberian peninsula. There is such a wealth of legend and chronicle and ballad, as well substantiated as such tradi tions can be, that the dramatist is reluctantly put to it to leave out much that is thrilling and ro mantic and even theatrical, instead oi - as is usually the case - having to search for available material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
El Cid Campeador
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Author : Antonio de Trueba
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1861
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The Lay Of The Cid
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-10
The Lay Of The Cid written by Anonymous and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-10 with Poetry categories.
The national epic of Spain, written in the twelfth century about Rodrigo Diaz of Bivar, conqueror of Valencia, who only died in 1099 but had already become a legend. Rendered into vigorous English rhymed couplets of seven iambic feet in 1919.
Poem Of The Cid
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
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Poem Of The Cid
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Author : Paul Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1998
Poem Of The Cid written by Paul Blackburn and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Poetry categories.
Few works have shaped a national literature as thoroughly as the Poem of the Cid has shaped the Spanish literary tradition. Tracing the life of the eleventh-century military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, called El Cid (from the Arabic Sayyidi, "My Lord"), this medieval epic describes a series of events surrounding his exile. The text of the poem survives in only one early-thirteenth-century manuscript copied by a single scribe, yet centuries later the figure of the Cid still was celebrated in the Spanish popular ballad tradition. Today almost every theme that characterizes Spanish literature-honor, justice, loyalty, treachery, and jealousy—derives from the Poem of the Cid. Restored by poet and medievalist George Economou, this elegant and spirited translation by Paul Blackburn is judged by many the finest English translation of a great medieval poem.
The Poem Of The Cid
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language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2019-09-24
The Poem Of The Cid written by and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with Fiction categories.
One of the greatest works of Spanish literature, this eight-hundred-year-old epic details the legendary exploits of the soldier-adventurer Ruy Díaz of Bivar, El Cid, and of his part in the long struggle between Christianity and Islam. The epic poem recounts the adventures of the Cid; of his peerless steed, Babieca, and of his two famous swords, Colada and Tizón; of his wife, Doña Ximena, and his two daughters, Doña Elvira and Doña Sol, who found sanctuary with Abbot Don Sancho in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña during the Cid's exile; and of the despicable and black-hearted princes of Carrión, Diego and Fernando González. It is a powerful epic that sings of universal human values and failures, of loyalty and betrayal.