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 duri

This is the story of Don Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, chief marshal of the royal army, who was exiled from his native Castile by the weak King Alfonso in 1089. Banish

Rodrigo Díaz, the legendary warrior-knight of eleventh-century Castile known as El Cid, is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherl

This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

And so the Cid rode out of the gates of history - and into legend. Viewed at one level, Rodrigo Diaz, from the little town of Burgos in Castile, was just anothe