"The War in the Iberian Peninsula, 700-1600 is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula including the kingdoms of Leon and Castile, Aragon, Portugal, Navarra, al-Andalus and Granada. It offers an extensive chronology, covering the entire medieval period and extending throu…
Armies of Castile and Aragon 1370-1516
by Embleton, G. A., (Gerry A.), Pohl, John M. D.
fromMen-at-arms
Tells of the foundation of the Spanish military's Golden Age, illustrated with period paintings and sculpture, photographs, and full-color plates by a renowned expert on the apearance of medieval fighting men.
This volume "depicts the fighting men whose skill and tactical flexibility made Spain into a world power at the dawn of the Renaissance."--Back cover.
"This study focuses on post-Visigothic Latin chronicles as testimonies of an intense search for models of stability and social cohesion on the Iberian peninsula. As the principal source of Iberian political thought between the eighth and mid-thirteenth centuries, these texts hav…
"Este libro gira en torno al origen y desarrollo de la noción de guerra santa en la Edad Media peninsular. Se propone identificar un significativo elenco de testimonios terminológicos e iconográficos, relativos al concepto o realidad de la categoría 'guerra santa', en fuentes de…