El Cid and the First Crusade - full documentary

A documentary presenting parallel histories of El Cid and the First Crusade. July 10, 1099. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the man known as El Cid, lays dying. He is one of the most remarkable warriors of the Middle Ages. Having begun life as an ordinary knight, he dies as conqueror of the magnificent city of Valencia. Five days later, July 15, 1099 – far away, a small army of crusaders storms Jerusalem. These men have traveled across continents to the Holy Sepulcher. This is the culmination of the First Crusade, and like El Cid, it defines the Latin West’s remarkable era of growth, adventure and expansion in the 11th century.

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Featuring visuals from Medieval Kingdoms 1212 AD, a mod for Total War: Attila.

Sources:
-Arab Historians of the Crusades, trans. Francesco Gabrieli, (Barnes and Noble Books, 1993)
-Asbridge, Thomas - The First Crusade: A New History, (Oxford, 2004)
-Clissold, Stephen - In Search of the Cid, (Hodder and Stoughton, 1965)
-Fletcher, Richard - The Quest for El Cid, (Oxford University, 1991)
-Melville, Charles; Ubaydli, Ahmad - Christians and Moors in Spain: Vol. 3 (Arabic Sources), (Liverpool University, 1992)
-Peters, Edward - The First Crusade: Fulcher of Chartres and Other Sources Materials, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
-Robert the Monk - History of the First Crusade, trans. Carol Sweetenham, (Ashgate, 2006)
-Smith, Colin - Christians and Moors in Spain: Vol. 1 (AD 711-1150), (Liverpool University, 1988)
-Tyerman, Christopher - God’s War, (Harvard University Press, 2006)
-World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest, trans. Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher, (Manchester, 2000)

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Music credits:
Heavy Interlude by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artist: http://incompetech.com/
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