The World of El Cid Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest

by Barton, Simon; Fletcher, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780719052262
• ISBN10: 0719052262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-09
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

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 Leoacute;n-Castile during the 11th and12th 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 Leoacute;n-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 Diacute;az, better remembered as El Cid, and is the main source of information about his extraordinary career as a mercenary soldier who fought for Christians and Muslims alike.

Author Biography

Simon Barton is Reader in Medieval Spanish History at the University of Exeter.

Richard Fletcher is Professor of Medieval History at the University of York.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vi
Foreword	vii
Preface	ix
List of abbreviations	xi
Map	xii
Genealogical table	xiii
General introduction	1	(8)
Historia Silense	9	(56)
Introduction to the Historia Silense	9	(15)
Historia Silense	24	(41)
Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, Chronicon Regum Legionensium	65	(25)
Introduction to the Chronicon Regum Legionensium of Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo	65	(9)
Bishop Pelayo of Oviedo, Chronicon Regum Legionensium	74	(16)
Historia Roderici	90	(58)
Introduction to the Historia Roderici	90	(8)
Historia Roderici	98	(50)
Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris	148	(116)
Introduction to the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris	148	(14)
Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris	162	(102)
Bibliography	264	(10)
Index	274