Early Medieval Spain. Unity in Diversity, 400–1000 (2E)

THE ARAB CONQUEST 157 composed in Toledo, and known from its approximate date of com- position as the Chronicle of 754.^27 This ...

158 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN ruling for seven years (713-720), but no coins are known to exist bearing his name. Thus, Roderic does ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 159 aristocracy, whose members were central to the process of selecting a new king or endorsing the heir of th ...

160 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN metal and produce and promised not to give aid to anyone resisting the Arabs, in return for retaining t ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 161 origins of the church go back to the sixth century, the settlement that surrounds its southern side seems ...

162 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN The lack of any expansionary interests on the part of the Visigothic monarchs and the apparent difficu ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 163 conquerors was relatively small, and, as indicated above, it could not be used for military purposes. Thus ...

164 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Similarly, the chronicler's enthusiastic report that property was returned to the Christians by YaQya s ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 165 smvivors took refuge in Ceuta under his deputy Balj ibn Bishr, and then persuaded the governor of Al-Andal ...

(^166) EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and by now relatively long-established, Arab communities throwing off the authority of the fragmente ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 167 then backed another revolt led by 'Abd al-Ghaffar in the early 770s. This was part of a growing division b ...

168 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and south of the Sierra Guadarama. While these lines of communi- cation were not in Umayyad hands, ther ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 169 who thus established their authority over all of Al-Andalus.^45 It was not to go unchallenged thereafter, ...

170 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN image may be truer of the later stages of Umayyad rule than of the times of 'Abd al-RaQrnan I, but it i ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 171 For all their justifiable pride in their ancestry and achievements, the Umayyads in Spain rarely gave the ...

172 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Several of the Umayyads were themselves highly cultivated men. Al-l;Iakam I and 'Abd al-RaQrnan II were ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 173 While they remained personally in control of their own administra- tion the Umayyads were the best guarant ...

174 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN been ineffective. The extension of the power of the administration outside of Cordoba however depended ...

THE ARAB CONQUEST 175 limited issues of gold dinars, identical in design to the silver ones, in the tenth century. The law that ...

176 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN for or against the regime in the frequent periods of disturbance and revolt. They must also have influe ...