Download or read book A Knight of Spain written by Marjorie Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Knights of Spain Warriors of the Sun written by Charles M. Hudson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1539 and 1542 Hernando de Soto led a small army on a desperate journey of exploration of almost four thousand miles across the U. S. Southeast. Until the 1998 publication of Charles M. Hudson's foundational Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun, De Soto's path had been one of history's most intriguing mysteries. With this book, anthropologist Charles Hudson offers a solution to the question, "Where did de Soto go?" Using a new route reconstruction, for the first time the story of the de Soto expedition can be laid on a map, and in many instances it can be tied to specific archaeological sites. Arguably the most important event in the history of the Southeast in the sixteenth century, De Soto's journey cut a bloody and indelible swath across both the landscape and native cultures in a quest for gold and personal glory. The desperate Spanish army followed the sunset from Florida to Texas before abandoning its mission. De Soto's one triumph was that he was the first European to explore the vast region that would be the American South, but he died on the banks of the Mississippi River a broken man in 1542. With a new foreword by Robbie Ethridge reflecting on the continuing influence of this now classic text, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Knights is a clearly written narrative that unfolds against the exotic backdrop of a now extinct social and geographic landscape. Hudson masterfully chronicles both De Soto's expedition and the native societies he visited. A blending of archaeology, history, and historical geography, this is a monumental study of the sixteenth-century Southeast.

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Download or read book The Knights Templar in the Golden Age of Spain written by Juan García Atienza and published by Destiny Books. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough examination of the history of the Templars in Spain and Portugal • Explores the mysteries surrounding the location of Templar enclaves • Examines the Templar connections to the Cathars and to the troubadour culture • Looks at the Order’s influence in the kingdoms of Aragon and Catalonia and the Spanish monarchy itself The rise and fall of the Templar Order constitutes a fundamental and decisive episode in medieval history, and the destruction of the Order constitutes a pivotal point that fundamentally altered the direction of society. While much is known about the history of the Templar Order in France, home of its chief commandery in Paris, and in the Latin States of the Middle East, their contribution to events on the Iberian peninsula has until now remained obscure and unexplored. Renowned Templar scholar Juan García Atienza reveals here the important role the Templars played in the Reconquista that saw the Moors driven out of Spain and demonstrates the great influence they exerted in the kingdoms of Castille and Navarre and the territories of Catalonia and Aragon. He examines the mysterious connections between the Templars and the Cathars and troubadours as well as the mystery surrounding the location of all the Templar enclaves in the Iberian peninsula. He also unveils the important role the Templars had as teachers of the Spanish king James I, known as the Conqueror, whose attempt to establish a universal theocratic empire may have been a reflection of Templar ambitions, and explores the Order’s suppression in Spain and how it survived in Portugal by simply changing its name.

Download or read book A Knight of Spain written by Marjorie Bowen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Knight of Spain" is a novel by the prolific British writer Marjorie Bowen. The novel tells about Don Juan, a half-brother of the Spanish King, Felipe, who has no claim to the crown as his mother was a commoner. Being a great warrior and favorite of ladies, Don Juan becomes a famous and well-known personality in many European courts, which evokes the jealousy of his royal brother and starts a chain of incredible adventures.

Download or read book A Knight in Spain written by Willis Knapp Jones and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Knight of Spain written by Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Knight of Spain written by Marjorie Bowen (pseud. van Gabrielle Margaret Vere Campbell.) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Conquistadores written by Fernando Cervantes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world “The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully simple language, and most importantly knows how to tell a good story.” —The Times (London) Over the few short decades that followed Christopher Columbus's first landing in the Caribbean in 1492, Spain conquered the two most powerful civilizations of the Americas: the Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. Hernán Cortés, Francisco Pizarro, and the other explorers and soldiers that took part in these expeditions dedicated their lives to seeking political and religious glory, helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. But centuries later, these conquistadors have become the stuff of nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation as men who decimated ancient civilizations and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, acclaimed Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes—himself a descendent of one of the conquistadors—cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to help us better understand the context that gave rise to the conquistadors' actions. Drawing upon previously untapped primary sources that include diaries, letters, chronicles, and polemical treatises, Cervantes immerses us in the late-medieval, imperialist, religious world of 16th-century Spain, a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadors themselves. His thought-provoking, illuminating account reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World and the half-century that irrevocably altered the course of history.

Download or read book A Knight of Spain written by Marjorie Bowen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three young men were walking through one of the quietest streets of Alcala. Their rich appointments and courteous demeanour marked them as belonging to the noble youths who studied at the University of Alcala, which was as learned as Salamanca, and more fashionable, and gave a great air of dignity to the little town on the Henares, which, now in the height of its fame, consisted of streets of palaces, convents and colleges huddled together in massive splendour behind the old walls. It was midsummer, the air was tremulous with heat, and low, purple black clouds rolled up from the plains towards Madrid; beneath them shot the last rays of the fierce sun that ended in a glow of dun light on the white walls and coloured shutters of the silent houses of the silent street through which the three youths were walking in leisurely fashion, two of them with their arms interlinked and talking together, the third a little in advance with his eyes on the ground and his arms folded on his chest. At the corner of the street stood a handsome palace surrounded by a courtyard in which grew laurels and ilex. Before this the three stopped and gazed through the light yet strong iron railing that divided them from the mansion. A strange glowing light fell on the house that fully faced the west, and the domes and towers rose golden white against the deepening purple of the thundrous sky. A little hot breeze, the forerunner of a storm, stirred the stiff boughs of the laurel and slightly shook the crimson drapery of an open upper window. It was towards this window that the three young men looked, for it belonged to the apartment of the lady, Dona Ana Santofimia y Munatones, who was decided to be the most beautiful in Alcala, and who was the object of the interest of every youth in the University, though none of them had ever spoken to her or seen her nearer than across the space of her father's courtyard. Before her window was a balcony on which stood three pots of pink roses, now in full bloom, and a bowl of growing basil that cast its feathery shadow over the white wall. More from habit than earnest feeling the three students lingered to catch a glimpse of the beauty. Presently she appeared, lifting the crimson curtain, and holding a pair of gilt scissors, on which the strong light gleamed. She wore a white skirt and a violet jacket fastened with green buttons; over her head was a muslin shawl with a silver fringe. She came out on to the balcony and cut the withered leaves from the rose bushes, scattering them on the hot air, where they fluttered a second and sank.

Download or read book 7 NOBLE KNIGHTS written by J. K. Knauss and published by Bagwyn Books. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spain, 974. Gonzalo, a brave but hotheaded knight, unwittingly provokes tragedy at his uncle's wedding to beautiful young noblewoman Lambra: the adored cousin of the bride dead, his teeth scattered across the riverbank. Coveting his family's wealth and power, Lambra sends Gonzalo's father into enemy territory to be beheaded, unleashing a revenge that devastates Castile for a generation. A new hero, Mudarra, rises out of the ashes of Gonzalo's once great family. Raised as a warrior in the opulence of Muslim COrdoba, Mudarra must make a grueling journey and change his religion, then chooses to take his jeweled sword to the throats of his family's betrayers. But only when he strays from the path set for him does he find his true purpose in life. Inspired by a lost medieval epic poem, Seven Noble Knights draws from awe-inspiring history and legend to bring a brutal yet beautiful world to life in a gripping story of family, betrayal, and love.

Download or read book Romances of Chivalry in the Spanish Golden Age written by Daniel Eisenberg and published by Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs. This book was released on 1982 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eisenberg's book dealing with the Spanish Romances of chivalry, the most popular fiction of the Spanish Renaissance, and the preferred reading of Don Quijote, is finally back in print. Originally published in 1982, this important work has been out of print for a number of years. "Dan Eisenberg's work is our best source of knowledge about the Spanish romances of chivalry." -Sydney P. Cravens Texas Tech University "Daniel Eisenberg tiene un profundo conocimiento de los secretos de los libros de caballermas." -Martmn de Riquer Real Academia Espaqola

Download or read book Knights on the Frontier written by Ana Echevarría and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity. This privileged Muslim elite provides an interesting case-study to propose new theories about voluntary conversion from Christianity to Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as the ways of assimilation of such a group into the local and courtly environments where they lived thereafter. Other subjects involved are the transformation of royal armies from feudal companies to regimented, professional forces including a well-trained cavalry, which in Castile was formed partly by these knights. Their descendants had to endure the changing policies conveyed by Isabel and Fernando, which increased discriminatory habits towards converts in Castilian society.

Download or read book Spanish Orders of Chivalry and Decorations of Honour written by Harrold Edgar Gillingham and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spanish Civil War written by Sheelagh M. Ellwood and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War (1939-1939) was one of the bloodiest internecine conflicts of the modern era, resulting in a repressive and brutal military dictatorship which lasted for almost forty years. Starting with an account of the background to the wat, Sheelagh Ellwood traces the history of the Second Republic (1931-1936), culminating in the electoral victory of the Popular Front in 1936. The author then charts analyses the dramatic chain of events of the Civil War: the army uprising in Morocco in July 1936, the Nationalist advances in southern northwestern Spain, the protracted resistance of Catalonia and Madrid, and the final victory of Franco′s forces in the spring of 1939.

Download or read book The Crescent and the Cross written by S.J.A. Turney and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic battle of the Reconquista; a personal struggle to survive; a fight for glory. War is brewing, and the Pope has summoned a crusade. The nations of Christendom are rallying to fight the Almohad caliphate, but they are a formidable foe. Meanwhile, behind Moorish lines, a fortress held by Castile is under siege. As the siege falls, a knight is lost. Arnau leaves on a dangerous, near-suicidal quest to save him, a new squire in tow. In the heat of the sierras though, things are not as they seem. War is coming to Iberia and all will be tested. Arnau’s sword arm will need practice, as will his mind. A riveting and brutal historical adventure, the latest instalment of S.J.A Turney’s Knights Templar series, perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden.

Download or read book Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: