Christians and Moors in Spain, Volume I.

Christians and Moors in Spain, Volume I.

This volume gathers together extracts from texts in Latin, Hispanic vernaculars, and French, concerning the relations of the Christians and Moors in Spain in the first four hundred years of their co-existence in the Peninsula. An effort has been made to illustrate aspects other than the exclusively...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Colin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Series:JSTOR EBA.
Subjects:
Christians > Spain > History > Sources.
Muslims > Spain > History > Sources.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting
Christians
Muslims
Spain
History
Sources
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; BOOKLIST; Maps; CHRISTIANS AND MOORS IN SPAIN I; 1. Origins of Islam (7th century); 2. The prophecy of the fall of Spain (711); 3. The invasion of Spain (711); 4. The invasion of Spain: another view (711); 5. Lament for the destruction of Spain (711); 6. The occupation and the first resistance (711-22); 7. Charlemagne in Spain (778); 8. Charlemagne converts the infidels (late 8th century); 9. The Franks take Gerona (786); 10. The martyrdom of Isaac de Tábanos (851); 11. A prophecy of reconquest (883).
  • 12. Advance and settlement under Alfonso III (late 9th century)13. Miraculous aid in battle (934); 14. Niceties of diplomacy (953-56); 15. Two miracles concerning al-Mansur (997); 16. St James announces the capture of Coimbra (1064); 17. The capture of Barbastro (1064); 18. The mosque of Toledo (1085); 19. St Dominic of Silos frees a captive (1087); 20. Campaigns and politics in and around Valencia (1088); 21. A romantic interlude (1091 or 1092); 22. Lament for the loss of Valencia (1094); 23. The Cid's speech to the Moors of Valencia (1094).
  • 24. Moorish honour, Christian treachery (about 1098)25. The Cid takes Murviedro (1098); 26. The Cid endows the Cathedral of Valencia (1098); 27. St James frees a captive (1100); 28. Alvar Fáñez's defence of Toledo (1109); 29. The Pisans attack the Balearics (1114-15); 30. St James cures a Muslim ambassador (1121); 31. Alfonso VII's flrst Andalusian campaign (1133); 32. A sense of chivalry? (1139); 33. Spain as crusading territory (about 1140); 34. Peter the Venerable has the Koran translated (1142); 35. Preparations for the Almería campaign (1147); 36. The Genoese expedition to Almería (1147).

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