Caliphs and Kings : Spain, 796-1031

Roger Collins

ISBN 10: 1118730011 / ISBN 13: 9781118730010

Edité par John Wiley And Sons Ltd Jan 2014, 2014

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Neuware - Roger Collins, a leading historian, investigates a time in Spanish history known for its multi-religious society - when Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in apparent harmony - revealing a fuller, more complex picture of this fascinating period.\* Presents new ideas and interpretations of a fascinating yet much misunderstood period of Spanish and Islamic history\* A broad and complex treatment of the tenure of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain\* Debunks myths and investigates the historiography of existing scholarship of the period.

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• Titre: Caliphs and Kings : Spain, 796-1031
• Éditeur: John Wiley And Sons Ltd Jan 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1118730011
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781118730010
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 18 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 18 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 480 grammes

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CALIPHS AND KINGS: SPAIN, 796-1031

The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. Caliphs and Kings offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods.

The nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed by many as an era of unprecedented harmony and mutual tolerance between the three great religious faiths in the Iberian Peninsula - Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - the like of which has never been seen since. And yet, as this book demonstrates, historical reality defies the myth. Though the middle of the tenth century saw a flowering of artistic culture and sophistication in the Umayyad court and in the city of Córdoba, this period was all too shortlived and localized. Eventually, twenty years of civil war caused the implosion of the Umayyad regime. It is through the forces that divided - not united - the disparate elements in Spanish society that we may best glean its nature and its lessons. 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.

À propos de l'auteur

Formerly a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities in the University of Edinburgh, Roger Collins is now a Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh. He has published widely in medieval Spanish and European history, and his books include: The Basques (Blackwell, 1986), The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797 (Blackwell, 1989), Oxford Archaeological Guide to Spain (1998), Charlemagne (1998), Visigothic Spain, 409-711 (Blackwell, 2004), and, most recently, Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy (2009).