Keyword/s: HISTORY, ISLAM, JEWS IN SPAIN, KNIGHTS OF SANTIAGO, LITERATURE-POETRY, ST JAMES IN SPAIN, ST JAMES THE APOSTLE, TEMPLARS, TOMB OF THE APOSTLE
Ref Type: Book
- Author
- Castro, Américo (trans. King, Edmund)
- Year
- 1954
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published in
- Princeton
- Accession No
- 08562
- pp
- 689
- Edition
- 1st English
- location
- BKA
- Comment
A classic work, a translation of "España en su Historia" (1948). Chapter 6 "Christianity faces Islam" goes from "The Belief in Saint James of Galicia" to "Apogee and Decline of the Belief in Santiago". Much on Islam and the Jews. Chapter 9 on "the Castilian Epic"