El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend

El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary

Nora Berend

256 pages hardcover

4 editions

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 In the centuries after his death, he was transformed into a perfect Christian knight. In modernity, he was seen as the incarnation of Spain’s special national character—Franco chose El Cid as the emblem of Nationalist Spain. Yet not only those on...

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