Articles related to "Medieval Spain"

Just 15 minutes from Midtown Manhattan is Medieval Times, a show that transports you to Medieval Spain where Kings ruled the land, and Knights protected the innocent.

The Reconquest of Spain (711-1492) was the first major conflict between Islam and Christianity where Christianity eventually won.

The Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 seemed complete by 718. But some of their Christian neighbors had other ideas.

In the year 711 armies of Muslim Berbers invaded the Iberian Peninsula, conquering most of Spain and set the course of Spanish history for the next seven hundred years.

The desperation by Christian leaders to repel the Muslim presence in Spain in the 8th Century led to a greatly relaxed chivalric code in Spain.

After years of neglect, Spain's Jewish heritage is being rediscovered, and its fine medieval synagogues, well restored, can be visited once again.

Teen historical fiction is on the rise, with more and more absorbing stories and series' arriving in bookstores every season.

$110,000 in prize money will be awarded to Canadian children's book authors in the coming months thanks to the 2009 Canadian Children's Book Centre Awards.

Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia who was born in Saragossa, Spain in around 1240, was a mystic and visionary who believed that he was destined to be a prophet.