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"When did Granada become a Christian city?" With this question, David Coleman begins his book, insisting that the superficial response, "1492," is only the beginning. Coleman's answers illuminate complex processes of the early modern world.
- The Reconquista and The Origins of Spain
- Into The "New World"
- Conquest by Sword and Germs
- Blood and Gold
In the 1400s, "Spain" as we think of it today did not exist. The Iberian peninsula, the piece of land that juts out of southwestern Europe into the Atlantic Ocean, included three kingdoms: Aragon, a small kingdom bordering France on the Mediterranean Sea and focused on trade with Italy and Africa; Portugal on the Atlantic coast; and Castile, a larg...
In the late Middle Ages, Europeans were fascinated with the idea of Asia and its wealth. Europeans and East Asians had long known of each other -- Alexander the Great's empire had connected Greece and India in the fourth century BCE, and later, the Han Dynasty of China and the Roman Empire traded regularly and exchanged a few diplomats. During the ...
Immediately, the Spanish set about conquering the world they had discovered. Within a hundred years this small European nation had claimed the better part of two continents. They relied on a combination of military superiority, occasional diplomacy, luck -- and their greatest ally, disease. Then, convinced that the peoples of the Americas were unci...
What Cortés and his men saw in Tenochtitlán horrified them. The many Aztec gods demanded human sacrifice -- to ensure that the sun would coninue to rise in the morning, to grant fertility, or to guarantee a good harvest. The Aztecs fought wars with neighboring peoples to capture victims for sacrifice. In the most famous ritual, the victim was sprea...
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Jan 1, 2004 · The Catholic Historical Review 90.3 (2004) 541-543 "When did Granada become a Christian city?" With this question, David Coleman begins his book, insisting that the superficial response,...
xml. Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's "Catholic Monarchs" Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492.
The emperor Charles V created a university in 1526 and established the Court in the Alhambra, but, in exchange, Granada started losing its Arabic roots when the Renaissance and the Baroque periods developed. The Golden Age also left its print in Granada and the city developed a very intense artistic activity.
Chapter 1 presents Granada as a cultural, religious, and political frontier, characterized by a high degree of fluidity and opportunity for the thousands of Christian immigrants who entered the city in the first decades of its incorporation into the Spanish crown.
Aug 15, 2013 · "Creating Christian Granada addresses an important and intriguing question for the history of late medieval/early modern Spain: how the once Muslim city of Granada was transformed into a Catholic city. David Coleman answers the question with finesse and sensitivity.
