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Una introducción perfecta para descubrir uno de los períodos más apasionantes de la historia de España y la península ibérica.La mítica batalla de Guadalete en el año 711 y la expulsión del sultán nazari Boabdil de la ciudad de Granada en 1492 delimitan el intenso periodo medieval en la peninsula iberica. A lo largo de esos casi ocho siglos, la antigua Hispania romana se transformo en el rico y floreciente Al-Andalus musulman, bastion cultural incuestionable que ilumino a Europa con sus filosofos, medicos e historiadores.Sin embargo, la peninsula de la epoca medieval no era un territorio homogeneo y su historia es tan convulsa como fascinante. Desde el norte, los reinos cristianos nunca dejaron de disputar el control del territorio iberico al califato Omeya y a las taifas despues, hasta que expulsaron a musulmanes y judios del nuevo reino unido de Castilla y Aragon, a las puertas del siglo XVI, mientras el resto de Europa se iluminaba en pleno Renacimiento.El legado de este periodo sin igual es una impresionante mezcla de herencias godas, romanicas, goticas, moriscas y mudejares, que han definido la historia de la peninsula hasta hoy.Jordina Sales es una historiadora premiada y reconocida por sus investigaciones sobre Antiguedad tardia y alta Edad Media.

1298: Alexander of Wells watches William Wallaces army across the field at Falkirk. Hours later, he is dead, cut down by the Scots.1381: Hated collector of the Poll Tax, Robert Hales, is dragged from the Tower of London and executed, his head paraded through the streets before being placed on a spike on London Bridge.1490s: John Kendal sends coded letters to Perkin Warbecks supporters and hires an astrologer to murder Henry VII.These men were not scheming lords: they were Knights Hospitaller. Commonly known as warrior monks, they were a religious and military order that fought to defend the Holy Land, supposedly above war and petty politics. But in Europe they became entangled in local government, taking up positions as royal commanders, administrators and politicians. They led armies, attended Parliaments, and joined court intrigues and civil wars.While the Knights Templar have long captured the public imagination, the Hospitallers were just as influential, yet their story has been left largely untold until now. From the English invasion of Ireland through to Henry VIIIs Dissolution of the Monasteries and beyond, the Hospitallers story in Britain and Ireland sees the brethren drawn into civil wars, violent feuds, duels, assassinations and witchcraft.Employing the latest research, Warrior Monks reveals the fascinating account of medieval Britain through the eyes of the Knights Hospitaller: a powerful order that made kings, toppled regimes and shaped history.