The Quest for El Cid
by Richard Fletcher
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Paul Graham, Most Recommended Books, and History.
Rodrigo Diaz, the legendary warriorknight of eleventhcentury Castile known as El Cid, is remembered today as the Christian hero of the Spanish crusade who waged wars of reconquest for the triumph of the Cross over the Crescent. He is still honored in Spain as a national hero for liberating the fatherland from the occupying Moors. Yet, as Richard...
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Co-founder of Y Combinator; essayist
“@mikebala @mckaywrigley Bartlett's Making of Europe, White's Medieval Technology, and Social Change, Fletcher's Quest for El Cid to start with.”
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