Las Españas medievales

Synopsis of Las Españas medievales

«Las Españas medievales» is the historical essay by Pierre Bonnassie, Pierre Guichard and Marie-Claude Gerbet, published by Editorial Crítica in hardback.

A plural history of medieval Spain: from the Visigoths to the kingdom of the Catholic Monarchs, through al-Andalus and the Reconquista as a collective enterprise. It moves away from kings and battles to focus on ordinary people —peasants, lords, slaves, widows, builders— in a time of famine, plague and civil war.

First volume of the Libros de Historia collection; Spanish-language edition of 368 pages published in 2001.

For readers interested in the social history of medieval Spain who want a view of the Reconquista away from the traditional military narrative.