The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada

by Joseph F. O'Callaghan

By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245873
• ISBN13: 9780812245875
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"