Sagrajas: Gate to the Forgotten and Failed Crusades of the Reconquista A background, compare/contrast of military capabilities, and a major battle analysis of the Reconquista.
Date Submitted: 12/20/2004 23:32:52
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (1143 words)
Category: / History / European History
Length: 4 pages (1143 words)
The Iberian Peninsula had slowly slipped from Christendom control due to numerous invasions by the Moslems, and by the eighth century, an Islamic state existed well inland, with its main city of Cordoba becoming the largest western European city by the tenth century. As the Frankish empire began to lose its power and influence in the middle ninth century, the 'flood-gates' to the Spanish west were opened for Moorish attacks, and following the sack of …
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…rm the Muslims retreated...."
Jim Bradbury. The Medieval Siege (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1992), 102.
John Beeler. Warfare in Feudal Europe 730-1200 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1971), 160.
Bradbury, 102.
Beeler, 152-156.
Phillipe Contamine. War in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1986), 55 - information obtained from a footnote.
Beeler, 156.
Beeler, 153 & 167.
Beeler, 166.
Beeler, 58.
Nicholas Hooper and Matthew Bennett. Warfare: The Middle Ages 768-1487 (Illustrated Atlas) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 95.
Beeler, 177.
Contamine, 57.
Beeler, 174-175.
Beeler, 175-178
Beeler, 178.
Contamine, 57.
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