The World of El CID - Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest

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, covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the story of Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Forword
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. General introduction
2. 'Historia Silense'
3. Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, 'Chonicon Regum Legionensium'
4. 'Historia Roderici'
5. 'Chonica Adefonsi Imperatoris'
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Simon Barton is Reader in Medieval Spanish History at the University of ExeterRichard Fletcher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York

Zusammenfassung

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, covering the Reconquest of Spain from the forces of Islam during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and the story of Rodrigo Díaz, better remembered as El Cid. -- .

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher
• Mitarbeit: Simon Barton (Herausgeber), Richard Fletcher (Herausgeber), Richard A. Fletcher (Herausgeber), Richard Fletcher (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Ingram Publishers Services
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 09.11.2000
• EAN: 9780719052262
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-5226-2
• Seiten: 296
• Abmessung: 138 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Gewicht: 381 g
• Serien: Manchester Medieval Sources; Manchester Medieval Sources
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; European History, Spain, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, HISTORY / Europe / Spain