In medieval Spain three great historians, Pierre Bonnassie, Pierre Guichard and Marie-Claude Gerbet, offer us an innovative vision of the plural destiny of the Spaniards in an era that: starts from the dark times of the Visigoths; is enriched by the splendor The Islam of Andalusia; contemplates the Reconquista more as the action of a man in motion than as the simple result of some combats; tells us the tragedy of a century and a half of hunger, plague, persecution and civil war; and concludes in the times of the Catholic Kings. This is, however, a reconstruction that departs from the traditional vision of the history of kings and battles to concentrate on the fate of ordinary men and women: of slaves and the free, of lords and peasants, of widows and virgins, architects and masons. A fascinating story that brings back the meaning of the real life of the Spaniards of the past.--Publisher's description.