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Illustrating El Cid : 1498 to today /

"Like England's Arthur and France's Charlemagne, the Cid is Spain's national hero, and for centuries he has served as an ideal model of citizenship. All Spaniards are familiar with the story of the Cid and the multifarious ways in which he is visualized. From illuminations in med...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Beck, Lauren (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction: Toward a Chronology for the Cidian Corpus; 1: Portraying the Cid and His Enemies: The Matamoros Effect; 2: Exertions of Masculinity and the Roles of Men; 3: Visions of Femininity and the Roles of Women; 4: Orientalization and the Revisioning of the Medieval Period; 5: Political Uses of the Cid in Text and Image; 6: Foreign Transformations of and Influences on the Cidian Corpus; Notes; Bibliography; Index