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Title: The Quest for El Cid by Richard Fletcher ISBN: 0-19-506955-2 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Learn about 11th Century Spain
Comment: This is more a history of 11th Century Christian and Islamic Spain than about El Cid. In fact, Rodrigo Diaz, El Cid, is hardly mentioned in the first 100 pages of the book. It is good history, though, about an era and place that most Americans know little about.
There is a belief that Spain was continually in turmoil - that the Christians and Moors were always fighting each since the beginning of Moorish rule. It is true that there were many tiny kingdoms, and often they were at war with each other. But in the 11th century and before, more often than not the wars were about territory and riches rather than religion.
Rodrigo Diaz was not a scourage of the Muslims, as he is often portrayed. Rather he was as often fighting with the Muslims as against. He also was not the only warrior of his time, there were many. But although this history dispells many of the myths of the man and the place, it is still fascinating reading. My only criticism is that the book may be a little too short. I would have liked to read more.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent history of the Cid and the al-Andalus
Comment: Chances are, if you were famous and died a long time ago, Charlton Heston has played you in some epic film. Such is the case with El Cid, the Spanish warlord who successfully played the Christian and Muslim tensions and ended up seizing Valencia for his own. Fletcher's book cuts through the myth to explore who the Cid really was, at the same time offering very intricate portraits of the history and personality of Medieval Spain, at the time the joining of the Christian and Muslim worlds. And it succeeds admirably.
Rating: 5
Summary: El Cid, a mozarabic lord
Comment: The understanding of the reign of Alfonso VI of Leon-Castilla is basic to the understanding of the following 1000 years of Iberian History... and this text is very helpful to understand that time.
It is evident that the author has some difficulty in perceiving the social and religious coexistence of Jews, Christians and Muslim... and it is very instructive to see how a Gallo-Romano-Germanic author sees a life that is, basically, Hispano-Romano-Semitic.
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Title: Moorish Spain by Richard Fletcher ISBN: 0520084969 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Medieval Spains by Bernard F. Reilly ISBN: 0521397413 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 03 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain by Maria Rosa Menocal ISBN: 0316168718 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Poem of the Cid: A Bilingual Edition With Parallel Text (Penguin Classics) by Ian Michael, Rita Hamilton, Janet Perry ISBN: 0140444467 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: El Cid and the Reconquista 1050-1492 (Men-At-Arms, No 200) by David Nicolle, Angus McBride ISBN: 0850458404 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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