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This study analyses the phenomenon of people without legal personality in early medieval central Europe from two perspectives. The first is focused on the importance of unfree labour in the context of local economic systems, the second on the long-distance slave trade.
- Roger Collins
From the introduction of Caliphs and Kings: Spain, 796–1031, Collins sets his work apart by dismantling the purported peaceful co-existence of the three Abrahamic religions theory in Al-Andalus. his contrasts with many authors who continue to perpetuate the convivencia framework no matter the period of medieval Spanish history.
- Teresa Camacho Alsmadi
Genealogies viii Maps xi Introduction 1 1 Al-Andalus:War and Society, 796 888 14 2 The Asturian Kingdom: Chroniclers and Kings, 791 910 50 3 The Christians of al-Andalus 83 4 Monks, Books, and Saints in the Christian North 104 5 Al-Andalus: Local Government versus the Capital, 888 928 121 6 TheKingdomofLe' on, 910 1037 138 7 Al-Andalus: Umayyad Triumph and Disaster, 912 1031 166 8 The Kingdom ...
Caliphs and kings : Spain, 796-1031 / Roger Collins. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-631-18184-2 (cloth) 1. Spain–History–711-1516. 2. Spain–History–711-1516–Historiography. 3. Andalusia (Spain)–History–To 1500. 4. Asturias (Spain)–History–To 1500. 5. Castile (Spain)–
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Caliphs and Kings is devoted to better understanding those circumstances, as historian Roger Collins takes a fresh look at certainties, both old and new, to strip ninth- and tenth-century Spain of its mythic narrative, revealing the more complex truth beneath.
Dec 6, 2019 · 176 pages : 29 cm. Presents the Spanish rulers Alfonso El Sabio, Isabella and Ferdinand, Charles V, Philip II, and Philip V, with lavish illustrations of art objects they owned or commissioned. Includes bibliographical references (page 172) and index.
