EL CID MASTER OF THE BATTLEFIELD?
Apr 15, 2021
3 minutes
Known to the Spanish as El Campeador, ‘Master of the Battlefield’, and to the Muslims as El Cid, from the Arabic ‘Al Sayyid’, ‘The Master’, few figures capture the spirit of the mid-Reconquista tug-of-war than Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar. In the millennium since his death, European works of poetry, literature and drama have transformed him into Spain’s great Christian hero, celebrated for wrenching Valencia from Muslim hands. Though the facts of
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