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Download e-book for iPad: The Sephardic Frontier: the reconquista and the Jewish by Jonathan Ray

No topic looms greater over the historic panorama of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the quick growth of the ability of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created a extensive frontier sector that for 2 centuries remained a zone of war and peril.

New PDF release: French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815

Long ago thirty years, the learn of French-Indian kinfolk within the middle of North the United States has emerged as an incredible box for interpreting the advanced relationships that outlined an unlimited geographical sector, together with the nice Lakes sector, the Illinois state, the Missouri River Valley, and top and reduce Louisiana.

Get John of Brienne PDF

John of Brienne's growth, from mid-ranking knightly prestige to king of Jerusalem and, later, Latin emperor of Constantinople, strains essentially the most extraordinary careers within the whole medieval interval. yet how and why did he in attaining such heights? This biographical examine of aristocratic social and geographical mobility within the 'Age of the Crusades' reassesses John's attention-grabbing existence, and explores how households and dynasticism, politics, intrigue, faith and battle all contributed to John's unparalleled occupation.

Get Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - Volume II (Portuguese PDF

Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - quantity IIRui de Pina, cronista e diplomata português (1440-1552)Este livro apresenta «Chronica de El-Rei D. Affonso V - quantity II», de Rui de Pina. Índice interativo:- Apresentação- quantity Ii. Chronica De El-rei D. Affonso V