
Captives and Their Saviors highlights a story that was all too common in medieval Iberia and yet still resonates today.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jarbel Rodriguez is assistant professor of history at San Francisco State University.PRAISE FOR THE BOOK: "It is also a wo
- Title : Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon
- Author : Jarbel Rodriguez
- Rating : 4.71 (905 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-8-4
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 225 Pages
- Asin : 0813214750
- Language : English
Captives and Their Saviors highlights a story that was all too common in medieval Iberia and yet still resonates today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jarbel Rodriguez is assistant professor of history at San Francisco State University.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
"It is also a work of meticulous scholarship illuminated by an imaginative and compassionate understanding of the plight of its main subjects: not only those unfortunate enough to be taken prisoner, but also the family and friends who struggled to gain their freedom, even at the cost of financial destitution. On the basis of his own extensive research in the Archivo de la Corona de Aragon and the notarial and diocesan archives of Barcelona, Rodriguez gives us a much more fully fleshed-out picture of what life was like for captives as well as a more comprehensive discussion of the broad spGetz and Richard J. Hoffman and the author of Captives and Their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (2007). He is a co-author of Exchanges: A Global History Reader, Volume I (2008) with Trevor R.


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