The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish ReconquestPaperback, 9 November 2000

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.