medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Teresa Huguet-Termes <[log in to unmask]>
> The problem, as far as I know...is not so much the "conquista" part of the
word, but the "re". Now they
who?
>call it just "Conquista" because some people think that before the
"Conquista" nothing was owned deeply or completely enough by anybody so as to
be reconquered.
yes, those Visigoths were never really into the whole Property Thing very
much, and they were actually happy to just gave it all up when the Umayyad's
asked them, nicely (s.v.p.).
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umayyad_conquest_of_Hispania
otherwise known as "The Requesta."
c
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