The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain

Auteur

Roger Collins is a historian of medieval Spain, the Papacy and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE.

Texte du rabat

The Christian Culture of Islamic Spain is an enquiry into how and why Christian culture survived in medieval Spain in areas under Islamic rule, why it eventually disappeared there and how knowledge of it was recovered from the sixteenth century onwards.

Contenu

Introduction: The Arab Conquest of Spain; 1. The Legacy of Visigothic Christianity; 2. The Aftermath of Conquest; 3. Diverging Paths; 4. The Voluntary Martyrs; 5. Rural Christianity and Revolt; 6. Migrants on the Frontiers; 7. Conversion and Conflict; 8. The Mozarabs of Toledo; 9. A Subject of Study; 10. Reinterpreting the Andalusi Christian Past; Bibliography