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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 short-lived 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Caliphs and Kings - Spain 796-1031
• Author: Roger Collins
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780631181842
• ISBN: 0631181849
• ID: 01390304
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Weight: 554 g
• Dimensions: 158 × 236 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. April 2012

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