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Lost Paradise: the Story Of Granada
[Hardback - 2021]
elizabeth drayson
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Publisher: Apollo Uk | ISBN: 9781788547420 | Pages: 480
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Romans, then Visigoths, settled here, as did a community of Jews; in the 11th century a Berber chief named Zawi ben Ziri made Granada his capital; from the 13th until the late 15th centuries the Nasrids - last (and longest-lasting) dynasty of Islamic Al-Andalus - ruled the emirate of Granada from the fabulous fortress-palace of the Alhambra; after capturing the city to complete the Christian Reconquista, the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella made the Alhambra the site of their royal court. In this, the first full narrative history of the city of Granada for English-speaking readers, Elizabeth Drayson explores the distinctive, evolving identity of Granada, revealing it to have been the crucible of Europe throughout its history, the testing ground of culture and religion and politics, and a place of violently shifting identities. .

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Elizabeth Drayson is Emeritus Fellow in Spanish at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge; she is a specialist in medieval and early modern Spanish literature and cultural history. The author of The Moor s Last Stand, The Lead Books of Granada and The King and the Whore, Drayson has also produced the first translation and edition of Juan Ruiz s Libro de buen amor to appear in England. She lives in Cambridge.

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