by Gabriel Jackson · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788491041023
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This book offers a synthesis oriented to the examination of the three great cultures of medieval Spain: Islamic, Hebrew and Christian, analyzing their reciprocal interpenetrations. Gabriel Jackson studies a space of nine centuries, from the collapse of the Visigothic monarchy and the Islamic invasion, through the splendor of the Caliphate of Cordoba and its disintegration, the repopulation of the Duero valley and the genesis of Castile, to the civil wars in Castile and Aragon in the Late Middle Ages, the commercial expansion of Catalonia, the growth of the mendicant orders, the advances of anti-Semitism, the surrender of the kingdom of Granada, the founding of the Inquisition and the dynastic union under Isabel and Fernando. An essential work to understand the medieval history of Spain.
Gabriel Jackson was an American Hispanist, historian and journalist. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1921. After his retirement he lived in Barcelona, Spain.
