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

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 217 Not surprisingly, where the place of origin of these fugitive monks is known it generally turns out to be ...

218 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN from the early eighth century onwards a general avoidance of the depiction of figures in art seems to h ...

THE UMA YYAD REGIME 219 the local civil wars in which Arabs, muwallads and Christians all be- came involved, the monasteries, ho ...

220 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Malaga. Also, various local potentates established themselves as ef- fectively independent over long st ...

THE UMAYYAD REGIME 221 to have built a church in Bobastro, as had his father before him. These may be no more than rumours put o ...

The Christian Realms The Asturias and Leon THE century that follows the Arab invasion of the peninsula in 711 is probably the ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 223 importance of the Asturian kingdom and other Christian states in the north of the peninsula in the subs ...

224 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN not leave Al-Andalus on 11 November 884 as predicted may have robbed the prophecy of its value, but the ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 225 that there may once have existed a continuation of Isidore's work from the reign of Suinthila up to tha ...

226 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN precious stones. An elaborate oral epic, full of robust dialogue and improbable personal confrontations ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 227 internecine wars of the Arabs in the south of the peninsula in the 740s and 750s, several of the main t ...

228 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN Although the families of Pelagius and Alfonso I managed to main- tain a monopoly on the kingship, this ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 229 to return to being cleric. As has been previously suggested, this may not have been an entirely volunta ...

230 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN reign suggests that information on the church reforms being imple- mented in Francia was sent to the As ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 231 were reoccupied. At the same time a gradual eastward expansion of the realm into Alava in the upper Ebr ...

232 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN despite the growing internal chaos of the Amirate, and after the first settlement had been destroyed by ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 233 over the Asturians, Galicians, Basques and the newly arrived Mozarabs, had the necessary qualifications ...

(^234) EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN and the settlement of Compostela, the etymology of which name is disputed, came into being. In 1095 ...

THE CHRISTIAN REALMS 235 mysterious. It has been argued that this is the result of the translation of relics of the saint from M ...

236 EARLY MEDIEVAL SPAIN the shelter of the Asturian and Cantabrian mountains into the rela- tive openness of the Meseta is symp ...