The Reconquest Kings of Portugal: Political and Cultural Reorientation on the Medieval Frontier

By Stephen Lay

Book Overview

Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the peninsula during these centuries.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349357863
• ISBN13: 9781349357864
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"