The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada Tapa dura - 2014

Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2014. Hardcover. New. 400 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.25 inches.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. First edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. 2014 Hard Cover. vi, 364 pp. By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the Visigoths, whose heirs they claimed to be, the Castilian monarchs continued intermittently to assault Granada until the late fifteenth century. Matters changed thereafter, when Fernando and Isabel launched a decade-long effort to subjugate Granada. Utilizing artillery and expending vast sums of money, they methodically conquered each Naá¹£rid stronghold until… Leer más

Hardback. New. The Last Crusade in the West traces Castilian efforts to conquer Granada from the middle of the fourteenth century until the end of the fifteenth. Although the Castilian kings neglected the reconquest for many years, Fernando and Isabel achieved the capitulation of Granada in 1492.

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