 | The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait Subjects: Crusades -- 13th–15th centuries; Gibraltar Strait of -- Strategic aspects; Gibraltar Strait of -- History Military; Castile (Spain) -- History Military; Spain -- History -- 711–1516; Morocco -- History Military; Granada (Kingdom) -- History Military; Joseph O'Callaghan offers the first full and authoritative history of the epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries--a major, but often overlooked chapter in the Christian reconquest of Spain. Joseph F. O'Callaghan is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, Fordham University. He is the author of The Last Crusade in the West and Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
