Frances Minto Elliot
Old Court Life in Spain
(Vol.1&2)
Complete Edition
e-artnow, 2020
Contact: [email protected]
EAN 4064066400361
Table of Contents
Volume 1
Table of Contents
CHAPTER II Don Roderich—Gathering of the Chiefs—Trial of Witica
CHAPTER III Don Roderich’s Perfidy
CHAPTER IV Don Julian Goes over to the Moors
CHAPTER V Landing of the Moors—The Eve of Battle
CHAPTER VI Battle of Guadalete—Overthrow of Don Roderich
CHAPTER VII Cordoba—Pelistes—Don Julian—Florinda
CHAPTER VIII Frandina and her Son Put to Death by Alabor
CHAPTER IX The Moors at Seville—Mousa and Abdul-asis
CHAPTER X Abdul-asis and Egilona
CHAPTER XI The Moors at Cordoba
CHAPTER XII Abdurraman, Sultan of Cordoba
CHAPTER XIII Onesinda and Kerim
CHAPTER XIV Tragic Death of Onesinda
CHAPTER XV Pelayo Proclaimed King by the Goths
CHAPTER XVI Bernardo del Carpio
CHAPTER XVIII Bernardo del Carpio’s Vow
CHAPTER XIX Bernardo Leads the Goths against Charlemagne
CHAPTER XX Death of Sir Roland the Brave
CHAPTER XXI Bernardo Learns the Secret of his Birth—Joins the Moors
CHAPTER XXII El Conde de Castila
CHAPTER XXIV Marriage of Doña Ava and El Conde de Castila—Treachery of Doña Teresa
CHAPTER XXV Doña Ava Outwits Don Sancho and Releases her Husband
CHAPTER XXVII Don Diego Laynez and the Conde de Gormez
CHAPTER XXVIII Don Rodrigo (the Cid) Kills the Conde de Gormez
CHAPTER XXIX. Marriage of the Cid and Doña Ximena
CHAPTER XXX Death of King Fernando—Doña Urraca at Zamora
CHAPTER XXXI Don Alfonso Banishes the Cid
CHAPTER XXXII The Cid Bids Doña Ximena Farewell
CHAPTER XXXIII Adventures of the Cid—Death and Burial
CHAPTER XXXIV Fernando el Santo
PREFACE
Nothing can possibly be more thrilling and more romantic.
It is with the earlier and less known passages of old Court life I have dealt down to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel, from which period the history of Spain loses its peculiar identity and becomes merged into that of Europe.
If I have loved the courtly history I also love the country. A great part of this work was written in Spain, in the very places where the events occurred. May the reader share the same enthusiasm I felt in describing them!