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This 11 page paper discusses books by historians Richard Fletcher and Ramón Menéndez Pidal and argues that Fletcher's concerns over Menéndez Pidal's impartiality are well-founded. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that he tends to overshadow those who are also studying the life and times of this legendary hero. One of those scholars is Richard Fletcher, who has also built
a solid reputation in the field, but who challenges some of Menendez Pedals work on the grounds that because he lived in very turbulent times (the early 20th century), he
wanted to give Spaniards a hero who belonged exclusively to them; this would give them a role model and someone to emulate. (We have to remember that Franco, fascism and
the Second World War, as well as the Spanish Civil War, were all bearing down on Men?ndez Pidal. However, Fletcher argues that Men?ndez Pedals patriotism may have overshadowed his scholarship.
This paper contrasts the way in which these two historians view Rodrigo D?az de Vicar, known as El Cid. Introduction For many people, the words "El Cid" evoke
the memory of a somewhat odd film with Charleston Hesston in the title role. Given Hollywoods penchant for spectacle, they might be forgiven for assuming the story was fiction. But
in fact El Cid was real: his name was Rodrigo D?az de Vicar and he is one of the great heroes of Spanish history. For years, critics pointed to
the prolific works of critic and scholar Ramon Menendez Pidal as the definitive studies on Diaz, but more recently, an English historian named Richard Fletcher has contributed his own works
to the growing scholarship on the Cid. This paper considers the differences between the two writers, and whether or not one is preferable to the other. Richard Fletcher The one
constant that keeps coming up in all the reviews of Fletchers books is that they seem like to be stories, not histories. That is, his style is such that the
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