From Muslim to Christian Granada: Inventing a City's Past in Early Modern Spain

by A. Katie Harris

Honorable Mention, 2010 Best First Book, Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies

In 1492, Granada, the last independent Muslim city on the Iberian Peninsula, fell to the Catholic forces of Ferdinand and Isabella. A century later, in 1595, treasure hunters unearthed some curious lead tablets inscribed in Arabic. The tablets documented the evangelization of Granada in the first century A.D. by St. Cecilio, the city's first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080188523X
• ISBN13: 9780801885235
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"