El cid evidente biography of christopher
Christopher St. John Sprigg aka Christopher Caudwell was a British Marxist writer, thinker and poet.
The first critical examination of a literary hero and complex historical figure through book illustration..
El Cid, history and legend of the Spanish medieval knight and hero
This section contains complete, updated information about El Cid –the Spanish mediaeval hero par excellence- and his life and times, in addition to information about El Cantar de mío Cid (The Song or The Poem of el Cid) the great Spanish epic poem that tells of the adventures of El Cid from the time of his exile.
On describing the figure of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid Campeador (the Battler), we must make a clear distinction between documented historical fact and the literary creation of this figure, which is laden with legendary elements and has been adapted to the intrinsic needs of the works that have been written about him.
Even today, in modern times, it is quite easy to confuse both planes, the historical and the literary, and although it is necessary to compare them, they must not be confused with each other.
Statue of El Cid, in Burgos.
Historically speaking, Rodrigo Díaz