Hello my wife and I are starting to plan for our pilgrimage and had a question about hotels. Is there a route that offers 4 & 5 star accommodations? We are retired and would prefer to stay at nicer hotels along the way. Any help or guidance is...
Maybe search for titles with Convivencia in them?
Like this one.
https://archive.org/details/convivenciajewsm0000unse
Let us never forget that the Muslims brought philosophy and medicine into Andalucia and Spain when other religions were still...
The Great Courses series of audio books has an excellent series called History of Spain: Land on a Crossroad, which includes that period. Don't be alarmed at the nominal price - it is available on Audible.com, and I got it free with a trial...
Me, I'd go to my local library and ask the Librarian what they could find..
That's what I did after returning from Spain in 1978 and wondering what "Peregrino" and "Camino" meant. Collins English / Spanish dictionary wasn't much help but the...
You would have to try really hard to find a Spanish history book which doesn’t address these subjects.
I’ve just finished Giles Tremlett’s Brief History of Spain (in Spanish) and it’s well described - and surprisingly different to the...
I’ll have a go at that. I found his style (even in Spanish) entertaining and informative.(edit: just ordered the Spanish language version)
I’ve embarked on Anthony Beevor’s ‘Spanish Civil War’ twice now, and given up. I’m certain it’s an...
I know where thats coming from but they weren't dark ages for the people that lived 'em. Just look at the textiles, the jewellery, the statuary, the social structures, the emergence of cohesive religious practice before the impositions of Rome...
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