Spain and the Strait of Gibraltar -- Alfonso X's African crusade -- The crusade against the Mudéjars -- The crusade against the Marinids -- Sancho IV and the conquest of Tarifa -- The crusades of Gibraltar, Almaería, and Algeciras -- The early crusades of Alfonso XI's reign -- The loss of Gibraltar and the crusade of Salado -- The crusade of Algeciras and Gibraltar -- Waging the crusade of Gibraltar -- The aftermath : the Strait of Gibraltar to 1492
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-364) and index
