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- catalog abstract ""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 Leon-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth 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 Leon-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando (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. A general introduction to the volume sketches the historical background, and then each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. The book will appeal to students of medieval history and to anyone with an interest in the drama of the Spanish Reconquest."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Chronicles of the Spanish reconquest".
- catalog contributor b11982572.
- catalog contributor b11982573.
- catalog coverage "Spain History 711-1516 Sources.".
- catalog coverage "Spain History 711-1516.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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 Leon-Castile during the eleventh and twelfth 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 Leon-Castile as leaders of the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam, and especially upon Fernando (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. A general introduction to the volume sketches the historical background, and then each text is prefaced by its own introduction and accompanied by explanatory notes. The book will appeal to students of medieval history and to anyone with an interest in the drama of the Spanish Reconquest."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Historia silense -- Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, Chronicon regum legionensium -- Historia roderici -- Chronica adefonsi imperatoris.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-273) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 281 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "World of El Cid.".
- catalog identifier "0719052254".
- catalog identifier "0719052262 (pbk)".
- catalog isFormatOf "World of El Cid.".
- catalog isPartOf "Manchester medieval sources series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng spa".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press,".
- catalog relation "World of El Cid.".
- catalog spatial "Spain History 711-1516 Sources.".
- catalog spatial "Spain History 711-1516.".
- catalog subject "946.02 21".
- catalog subject "Cid, approximately 1043-1099.".
- catalog subject "DP97.4 .W66 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "Historia silense -- Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, Chronicon regum legionensium -- Historia roderici -- Chronica adefonsi imperatoris.".
- catalog title "Chronicles of the Spanish reconquest".
- catalog title "The world of El Cid : chronicles of the Spanish reconquest / selected sources translated and annotated by Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher.".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".