Medievalists.net » El Cid http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 El Cid, Cluny and the Medieval Spanish Reconquista http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/el-cid-cluny-and-the-medieval-spanish-reconquista/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/el-cid-cluny-and-the-medieval-spanish-reconquista/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:46:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46667 Rodrigo Díaz, better known by his title El Cid, has traditionally been portrayed as one of the great heroes of Spanish history, perhaps the perhaps the Spanish national hero par excellence.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/14/el-cid-cluny-and-the-medieval-spanish-reconquista/feed/ 0 Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/09/getting-schmedieval-of-manuscript-and-film-prologues-paratexts-and-parodies/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/09/getting-schmedieval-of-manuscript-and-film-prologues-paratexts-and-parodies/#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:12:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=44790 Getting Schmedieval: Of Manuscript and Film Prologues, Paratexts, and Parodies Richard Burt (Guest Co-Editor, University of Florida) EXEMPLARIA: VOL. 19, NO. 2, SUMMER 2007, 217 – 242 Abstract This introduction examines how historical effects in cinematic medievalism are produced through analogies between their shared marginal paratexts, including historiated letters, prefaces, opening title sequences, film prologues, and intertitles. […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/09/getting-schmedieval-of-manuscript-and-film-prologues-paratexts-and-parodies/feed/ 0 Sacrificial and Un-sacrificial Epics: An Examination of El Cid http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/sacrificial-and-un-sacrificial-epics-an-examination-of-el-cid/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/sacrificial-and-un-sacrificial-epics-an-examination-of-el-cid/#comments Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:57:04 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37853 I want to focus my attention here in another text, the Lay of el Cid, the only fully preserved Castilian epic poem.

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