But, as Nora Berend shows in her enthralling study, “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary,” this hasn’t prevented an outlaw, freebooter and warlord — as differing ...
Kennedy did of “El Cid” (1961). As Nora Berend tells us in her own “El Cid,” a biography of the man she calls a “medieval mercenary,” a person who was notably instrumental in the ...