[Review:] Joseph F. O’Callaghan. The Last Crusade in the West: Castile and the
Conquest of Granada. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2014, by Anastasia Stepanova // Written Monuments of the Orient. 1(5), 2017. P. 91–94.
The recent decade was marked by the appearance of three volumes of the
magisterial history by Joseph F. O’Callaghan, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History
at Fordham University. One cannot doubt that few scholars know the history of latemedieval
Castile better than he does. His Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval
Spain (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), The Gibraltar Crusade:
Castile and the Battle for the Strait (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
2011) were published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as the volume
of our review which represents the third part of his ambitious trilogy — The Last
Crusade in the West: Castile and the Conquest of Granada (2014). This volume
describes the ebb and flow of the Reconquest, the conflict which was going on from
the middle of the 15th c. until the fall of Granada, the last Islamic state on the
Iberian Peninsula, under the blow of the expanding Christian kingdoms in 1492...
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