CONTENTS

Introduction

Bibliography

Maps

The Epic of the Cid

Related Texts

A. Treasury of the Excellencies of the Spaniards. Ibn Bassam (Abu l’Hassan Ali ibn Bassam). Chronicle composed in Arabic in the early twelfth century.

B. The History of Rodrigo (Historia Roderici). Anonymous. Chronicle composed in Latin, sometime between 1102 and 1238 but probably after 1144.

C. The Song of the Campeador (Carmen Campidoctoris). Anonymous. Ode composed in Latin verse, sometime between the early 1080s and 1190.

D. First General Chronicle (Primera crónica general). Alfonso X of Castile. Chronicle composed in Old Castilian, late thirteenth century.

E. The Chronicle of Twenty Kings (Crónica de veinte reyes). Anonymous. Chronicle composed in Old Castilian, late thirteenth century.

F. The Youthful Deeds of Rodrigo (Mocedades de Rodrigo). Anonymous. Epic poem composed in Castilian, latter half of the fourteenth century.

G. “The Cid and the Moorish King.” Anonymous. Romance (“ballad”) composed in Castilian verse, late fifteenth or early sixteenth century.

Compendium of Proper Names

Index