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Three copies published by the Library on the occasion of the presentation of Ireland's bicentennial gift to Australia. A copy presented to each of the Prime Ministers of Ireland and Australia at the official ceremony held in the Library.
This book is the first account of the period to consider both Christian and Muslim Spain. The author discusses the various societies, cultures and governments of Muslim and Christian Iberia in the centuries of their critical confrontation. Beginning with the disintegration of the caliphate at Cordoba in the early eleventh century, the book traces the decline of the Muslim taifa states, and describes and explains their conquest, first by the Murabit, and then the Muwahhid fundamentalist Muslim empires of North Africa. Bernard Reilly describes the rising Christian kingdoms of Leon-Castilla, Aragon, Barcelona and Portugal and shows how they were engaged in a struggle on several fronts. As they vied with one another for control of the old Islamic stronghold of the center and north, they were also in continuous conflict with the Murabit and Muwahhid rulers, while striving to come to terms with the French, the Papacy and the Italian maritime powers.
Includes reports from the Chancery, Probate, Queen's bench, Common pleas, and Exchequer divisions, and from the Irish land commission.
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Bernard O'Reilly relates the story of the Stinson in his book 'Green Mountains'
Premio del Rey Prize winner Bernard Reilly has used his lifetime of research to fill in some of the gaps in our knowledge of Spain at the time of the Muslim Conquest. What might have happened in this fragment of the collapsing Roman Empire will entertain those who love historical fiction and the action-adventure story, and will raise some interesting questions for those concerned about our own troubled times.
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