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The War in Granada

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

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The Guerra de Granada is an account of the last armed struggle on Spanish soil between Christianity and Islam. Fighting broke out on Christmas Eve 1568 and continued for almost two years. For Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the war was a brutal conflict between Christian bigots and their mirror brethren on the other side. Like the owls and the dragons in the Book of Isaiah, Christian and Moor fouled a paradise they could not, would not, share. His book was far too critical of Phillip II, his ministers, generals and policies for there to be any question of publication in the king’s lifetime, but it circulated in manuscript form, fifty-two copies of which still survive. In 1627, more than fifty years after its author’s death, this uneasy, haunting, urgent, ironical, compassionate and often shocking work appeared in print for the first time, published in Lisbon.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: The Folio Society Limited

Release: May 06, 1982

The War in Granada

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Guerra de Granada is an account of the last armed struggle on Spanish soil between Christianity and Islam. Fighting broke out on Christmas Eve 1568 and continued for almost two years. For Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the war was a brutal conflict between Christian bigots and their mirror brethren on the other side. Like the owls and the dragons in the Book of Isaiah, Christian and Moor fouled a paradise they could not, would not, share. His book was far too critical of Phillip II, his ministers, generals and policies for there to be any question of publication in the king’s lifetime, but it circulated in manuscript form, fifty-two copies of which still survive. In 1627, more than fifty years after its author’s death, this uneasy, haunting, urgent, ironical, compassionate and often shocking work appeared in print for the first time, published in Lisbon.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: The Folio Society Limited

Release: May 06, 1982

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