Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Joseph F. O’Callaghan

Titel

The Frontier in Peace and War

Ist Teil von

• The Last Crusade in the West, 2014, p.197-225

Ort / Verlag

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Though in abeyance for much of the late fourteenth century and carried on only intermittently during most of the fifteenth, the Castilian conquest of Granada was finally concluded by Fernando and Isabel. Their entrance into the Naṣrid capital on 6 January 1492 fulfilled the aspirations of generations of Christians who had struggled to oppose the Muslims and destroy their kingdom. The achievement of that goal required the organization and maintenance of a powerful military force equipped with the most modern weapons, especially artillery, and the collection and disbursement of vast quantities of money. The papacy facilitated the enterprise by proclaiming