This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the 10th to 15th centuries, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the 13th century.
"In the seventeenth century two theaters were constructed in Madrid and many were built not only in urban centers across the Iberian Peninsula, but also in the colonial territories of America. A national theater is crucial for understanding Spain's march into modernity, especial…
"In Exotic Nation, Barbara Fuchs explores the paradoxes in the cultural construction of Spain in relation to its Moorish heritage through an analysis of Spanish literature, as well as costume, language, architecture, and chivalric practices."--Jacket.
The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend…
Offering a multitude of examples through the centuries, this book examines how the architecture of the ancient world was transformed or destroyed under Byzantium and Islam, to produce new forms which often owed their materials and sometimes their styles to the past.
In 711 an army of Arabs and Berbers from North Africa, united by their faith in Islam, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar and arrived on the Iberian Peninsula. In less than a decade the Muslims brought most of the peninsula under their domination; they called the Iberian lands they…
