Hi Philtration and fellow Coug. It's an older book and probably only found deep in the bowels of Holland Library but, The History of Spain, by Louis Bertrand and Sir Charles Petrie, treats Musulman Spain in great detail. I agree with Tincatinker...
Someone on this forum recommended Michener’s IBERIA a while back. I am about halfway through its 800+ pages and really enjoying the author’s style of writing. It’s kind of a deep dive into Spanish culture, one region at a time. Not specifically...
Something to keep in mind: some might say that "occupation" of the Iberian peninsula by Arabs is no more accurate than "occupation" by Christians, Jews, or Visigoths, Sueri, Romans, or Iberians...Parts of the Iberian peninsula were inhabited, and...
No more than it does me and him!
Apart from introducing most of the advanced practices in the arts and sciences the ‘moors’ grew the majority of the food. According to Tremlett, after a lot of huffing and puffing, the ‘expulsion’ was not unlike...
Absolutely! I expressed myself wrongly. I was trying to explain that muslims in that era introduced new inventions and views that were still unknown for christians in those regions.
Sometimes my English fails me.
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...
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...
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