The world of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish ReconquestSimon Barton, Richard Fletcher Manchester University Press, 2013 M01 1 - 296 páginas 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 eleventh and twelfth centuries. Three chronicles 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 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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... kingdom of Pamplona, later to be known as Navarre, emerged in desperately obscure circumstances in the ninth century. An eastern subdivision of Navarre, taking its name from the River Aragón in whose headwaters it had its nucleus, would ...
... kingdom of Pamplona, later to be known as Navarre, emerged in desperately obscure circumstances in the ninth century. An eastern subdivision of Navarre, taking its name from the River Aragón in whose headwaters it had its nucleus, would ...
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... kingdom of León much as Constantinople at the same epoch loomed over the principality of Kiev. Relations between the two ill-matched neighbours were not invariably hostile but could easily become so. This happened during the last twenty ...
... kingdom of León much as Constantinople at the same epoch loomed over the principality of Kiev. Relations between the two ill-matched neighbours were not invariably hostile but could easily become so. This happened during the last twenty ...
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... kingdom of León lay along – very roughly speaking – the valley of the Duero; the no man's land separating Muslim and Christian had shifted to the south. But it would be imprudent to connect expansion with ideology alone. There were less ...
... kingdom of León lay along – very roughly speaking – the valley of the Duero; the no man's land separating Muslim and Christian had shifted to the south. But it would be imprudent to connect expansion with ideology alone. There were less ...
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... twelfth-century queens – did her best in exceptionally difficult circumstances and nursed her kingdom through the worst testing it had had to face for over a century. It is easier for us than it was for contemporaries INTRODUCTION 5.
... twelfth-century queens – did her best in exceptionally difficult circumstances and nursed her kingdom through the worst testing it had had to face for over a century. It is easier for us than it was for contemporaries INTRODUCTION 5.
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... kingdom: unprecedented territorial expansion; unprecedented peril. It also saw entirely novel developments in León's relationship with the world of western Christendom beyond the Pyrenees. Though never entirely insulated from the rest ...
... kingdom: unprecedented territorial expansion; unprecedented peril. It also saw entirely novel developments in León's relationship with the world of western Christendom beyond the Pyrenees. Though never entirely insulated from the rest ...
Contenido
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Bishop Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo Chronicon Regum Legionensium | 65 |
Historia Roderici | 90 |
Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris | 148 |
Bibliography | 264 |
Index | 274 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest Simon Barton,Richard Fletcher Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest Simon Barton,Richard Fletcher Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest Simon Barton,Richard Fletcher Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
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