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David G Coleman - Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600 - 9780801441110 - V9780801441110
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Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600

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Description for Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600 Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 14, 4 maps, 6 black & white halftones, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JB; HBJD; HBLH; HRCC2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 564.
Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492. Over the following century, Spanish state and Church officials, along with tens of thousands of Christian immigrant settlers, transformed the formerly Muslim city into a Christian one. With constant attention to situating the Granada case in the broader comparative contexts of the medieval reconquista tradition on the one hand ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801441110
SKU
V9780801441110
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About David G Coleman
David Coleman is Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University.

Reviews for Creating Christian Granada: Society and Religious Culture in an Old-World Frontier City, 1492-1600
Creating Christian Granada addresses an important and intriguing question for the history of late medieval/early modern Spain: how the once Muslim city of Granada was transformed into a Catholic city. David Coleman answers the question with finesse and sensitivity. The book is based on extensive and groundbreaking archival research and brings much new and exciting material to light. -Mark Meyerson, ... Read more

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