Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar; better known as El Cid, was a hero, an important character in the unification of very early Spain, most importantly he was a legend. His is the story of a man that came from modest origins and moved up through the art of war. El Cid was a courageous man that feared no one and served one. He was loyal, brave, and honorable; a man that his vassals and subjects should fear as much as they should love. Often referred to as, “he who was born in the lucky hour” ; El Cid follows the
An Overview of the Life of a Spanish National Hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known best as El Cid, is revered as a great national hero of Spain. The name El Cid comes from the Arabic ‘El Seid’ meaning the Lord. Known to his admiring countrymen as ‘campeador’, or champion, he was a Spanish warrior whom later legend made into a hero and the symbol of chivalry and virtue. El Cid was born in Vivar near Burgos in 1043. His father, Diego Lainez, was a member of the minor nobility, called the ‘infanzones’
and Campeador means “the Warrior,” which was a title for a man. His real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. He was a military leader, and a nobleman from Castilian. He conquered Valencia and was part of the Reconquista meaning reconquest. The reconquest occurred by the northern Christian kingdoms and on Moorish Spain there was an onslaught. He is mainly know by his works of literature. El Cid was born on 1043 in Vivar del Cid, Spain. He died on July 10, 1099, in Valencia, Spain. He was very inspired
James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans as a Mixture of Genres James Fenimore Cooper's The last of the Mohicans is often seen as a simple adventure story within the historical frame of the French and Indian war. Only if we analyze the novel in a closer way, we will realize that it goes beyond this label and that its sources are many and varied, giving the work the richness of the genres on which Cooper's novel is based. These are romanticism, western, (being its author one of the forerunners
use in the above context can be found in Paul Blackburn's translation of the medieval Spanish epic Poem of the Cid. The poem is a fictional account of the life of the eleventh-century adventurer and military commander Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. The poem's title derives from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar's Arabic title, Sayyidi (the Cid) or "My Lord". The poem's content describes a series of events transpiring after the main character, the Cid, is exiled from his homeland. Within the body of the poem, situations
Brian. A Catlos’ novel, Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith, Power, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad, provides a detailed account of various sites of inter-religious interaction throughout the medieval Mediterranean from the 10th to 12th centuries. Throughout the novel, Catlos illustrates the influence of religion on the relationships and coexistence between the three Abrahamic religions - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - and the role it plays in the immense violence of the period