"What a Good Vassal!": El Poema de Mio Cid and
the Heroic Code of Medieval Spain
- The Historical El Cid: Spain at the Beginning of the Reconquest
- El Cid: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, (c. 1043-1099)
- A Christian Hero for Catholic Spain
- The Text: 1140-1207
- First Cantar: El Cid in Exile
- Merit and Rank
- Moneylenders: Raquel and Vidas
- Dona Jimena and the Cid’s Daughters
- The Cid Wins "Ganancia."
- Second Cantar: Victory and Honor
- The Cid Takes Valencia
- His Retainers Gain Honor
- The Infantes’ Scheme
- Third Cantar: The Disgrace of the Infantes de Carrión
- The King’s Permission
- The Incident of the Lion
- The Exposure of the Women
- The Dissolution of the Marriages
- The Return of the Swords and Money
- The Challenge by the Retainers
- The Trial by Combat
Review for the Final
- The Works
- Gilgamesh
- The Exaltation of Inanna
- The Odyssey
- Antigone
and Oedipus the King - Symposium
- Aeneid
- Beowulf
- The Poem of the Cid
- Inferno
- The Ideas
- Leadership and Civilization
- Immortality and Literature
- The Self and the Mind
- Gods and Humanity
- Fate and Duty
- Honor and Reparation
- War and Civil Society
- The Times and Places
- Mesopotamia (Sumeria, Akkadia, and Babylonia) in the Second and Third
Millenia, BCE
- Homeric and Classical Greece, Eighth and Fifth Centuries, BCE
- Imperial Rome, 19 BCE
- Anglo-Saxon England, 700 CE
- Medieval Spain, 1140-1207
- Late Medieval Italy, 1265-1321
- The Final
- Part I: Short Answers
- Part II: Identify and Discuss
- Part III: Essay
- Study Suggestions
- Fill in the holes.
- Think and remember with your pen.
- Outline the course—structure is memory.
- Build a foundation.
- Develop your ideas.
- Outline your essays.