• A cantar de gesta is the Spanish equivalent of the Old French medieval chanson de geste or "songs of heroic deeds". The most important cantares de gesta...
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    El Cantar de mio Cid (lit. 'The Song of my Cid', or 'The Song of my Sidi ('lord')'), or El Poema de mio Cid, also known in English as The Poem of the Cid...
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  • "The Song of my Cid" Cantar de gesta, Spanish equivalent of the Old French medieval chanson de geste or "songs of heroic deeds" Cantar (album), a 1974 album...
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  • Look up gesta, gestá, gęsta, or gęstą in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gesta may refer to: Gesta is the Latin word for "deeds" or "acts", and Latin...
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    p. 335 y n. 21. Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León 1999, p. 193. Montaner Frutos, Alberto, ed. (2011). Cantar de mio Cid (in Spanish). Barcelona: Galaxia...
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    palatine authority in it. Her story was romanticized in the cantar de gesta called the Cantar de Mio Cid, and Robert Southey's Chronicle of the Cid. Urraca's...
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    The Mocedades de Rodrigo is an anonymous Castilian cantar de gesta, composed around 1360, that relates the origins and exploits of the youth of the legendary...
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    birthplace of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, as first written in the Castilian epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid. San Antonio de Padua (June 13) Homage celebrations...
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    Tizona (category Cantar de mio Cid)
    the name of one of the swords carried by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, according to the Cantar de Mio Cid. The name of the second sword of El Cid is Colada...
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    The Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara ("Song of the Seven Lara Princes") is a legend, perhaps derived from a lost cantar de gesta, that relates a tale...
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    El Cid (redirect from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar)
    the protagonist of the most significant medieval Spanish epic poem, El Cantar de mio Cid, which presents him as the ideal medieval knight: strong, valiant...
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    first and last works of this period are taken to be respectively the Cantar de mio Cid, an epic poem whose manuscript dates from 1207, and La Celestina...
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  • was announced. As he conducted research into his role, Heston read El Cantar de mio Cid and arranged a meeting with historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal. Initially...
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    Colada (category Cantar de mio Cid)
    with Tizona) to his sons in law. According to the heroic verses of the Cantar de mio Cid, after his sons-in-law beat his daughters and then abandoned them...
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    The chanson de geste (Old French for 'song of heroic deeds', from Latin: gesta 'deeds, actions accomplished') is a medieval narrative, a type of epic poem...
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  • aristocracy and heroism from epic poetry, especially the medieval cantar de gesta and chivalric romance, and they often have a pretense of historicity...
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  • repeated other people's texts. These anonymous stories were mostly cantar de gesta. Although versified to make it easier to memorize, juglares probably...
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  • it.[example needed] Highlights include the Cantar de Mio Cid, the oldest preserved Spanish cantar de gesta. It is written in medieval Spanish, the ancestor...
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  • permitió el Cantar de mio Cid"". eldiario.es. Retrieved 16 December 2020. Granda, Gerardo (16 December 2020). "Quién es quién en la serie "El Cid" de Amazon...
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    medieval Galician-Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan literature such as the cantar de gesta.[citation needed] Some noble genealogies show the close, though not...
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    Jewish, and Christian culture. One of the notable works is the epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid, composed some time between 1140 and 1207.[dubious – discuss]...
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  • hdl:11441/15220. Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2007). "Los Infantes de Carrión del Cantar Cidiano y su nula historicidad" (PDF). Historia, instituciones,...
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    People) El Cantar de Mio Cid, Spanish epic of the Reconquista (Old Spanish) De triumphis ecclesiae by Johannes de Garlandia (Latin) Gesta Regum Britanniae...
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    kingdom was taken over by 'Abd al-'Aziz, a grandson of the Amirid and former de facto ruler of the caliphate, Ibn Abi Amir al-Mansur (also known as Almanzor)...
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    He later dies betrayed fulfilling the destiny foretold by Atlantes. Cantar de gesta Anglo-Norman literature Romance (heroic literature) Boiardo, Orlando...
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    His mother was Cristina, daughter of the Castilian nobleman Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid. He succeeded his father as lord of Monzón and...
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    Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro's play Las Mocedades del Cid. Castro's play in turn is based on the...
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  • El Cid: The Legend (category Films scored by Zacarías M. de la Riva)
    on the story of the 11th-century Castilian knight and warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, also known as El Cid. Ben Yusuf invades the Muslim Taifa of Zaragoza...
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    Granada becomes sultan. (Date unknown). The anonymous Castilian cantar de gesta, Mocedades de Rodrigo, is composed, relating the origins and exploits of the...
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  • married to Munio Godestéiz,most probably the Muño Gustioz mentioned in the Cantar de Mio Cid who would have been the brother-in-law of Jimena Díaz who fought...
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