medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture They= Medievalists pertaining to left party ideologies (mainly but not only, from Eastern regions of Spain). The rest, still love to speak about "RECONQUISTA". Teresa. On 10 Nov, 2011,at 07:15 PM, Christopher Crockett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 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 ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html