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Article: Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2005
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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. By Joseph O'Callaghan. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Pp. xiv, 322. $39.95.)
On the one hand, a masterful synthesis of work done in both crusade and reconquest history and, on the other, a fresh look at the intersection between the two fields, this engaging book tackles the contentious issue of categorizing the Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula as bona fide crusades. Joseph O'Callaghan disentangles the threads of the complex relationships between the kings of medieval Spain, as well as between these monarchs and the papacy, which is crucial to understanding his ...