This book traces the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from a collection of late Roman imperial provinces to the Spanish and Portuguese monarchies of the fifteenth century. That evolution is explained initially as a product of the interaction of the geography of Iberia and the successive invations of it by the Visigoths in the […]
Between 850 and 859 the Muslim government of Córdoba executed forty-eight Christians on two different charges. Most were accused of making denigrating remarks about the prophet Mauhammad, which under Islamic law was a capital offence for non’Muslims. Some were Christians with one or more Muslims parent and were therfore considered under Islamic law to be […]
Reisen nach Santiago de Compostela im Nordwesten Spaniens sind immer noch aktuell: als Wallfahrten ebenso als wie gehobene Urlaubsaktivität moderner Touristen. Gehen als Dialog mit der Schöpfung, wie Reinholt Messner sagt. Rolf Legler rekonstruiert akribisch genau die historischen Spuren, die nach Santiago führen. Und kommt zu sensationellen Ergebnissen. Könige, fromme Propagandisten, Kirchenmänner uns Regierungen bauten […]
Dr MacKay brings clarity to the medieval history of Spain by concentrating on two themes which provide the key to much of Spanish historical devlopment:”the frontier” from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; and “the preparation for Empire”during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
The present v9olume contains an edition of two pilgrim itineraries from England to major shrines on the continent of Europe. The occasion for this publication is the Holy Year in Santiago de Compostela.
First printed 1929
