"Finding El Cid " Topic
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| Tango01 | 10 Jul 2015 12:03 p.m. PST |
"After a year of almost exclusive focus on Napoleonics I am now returning to the promiscuous reading selection of old. One of the books I had been saving up for this moment was Richard Fletcher's The Quest For El Cid. My interest in The Leader was aroused by my visit to Spain two years ago. The beauty of the book is that it not only describes the life of The Cid, about whom there is only a limited amount of hard evidence, but also the Spain that he lived in, and also the Spain that turned him in to a crusader saint later on. The age of El Cid was a fluid one, with disintegration of the old Muslim Caliphate into successor states that were unable to maintain themselves against Castilian expansion. So many of them became dependents, riven apart by internal struggle to be exploited by rising Christian states in the north. However, those fought amongst themselves as well…"
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| Hussar123 | 10 Jul 2015 7:05 p.m. PST |
The movie with Heston and Loren did it for me! I've been to Spain about 20 times my biggest thrill was to see his statue. I have four armies of over 600 15mm figures for the period. |
| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2015 10:27 a.m. PST |
The movie was great!. Amicalement
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