Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45953
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam , ,
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  • Title: Legends of Women and the Conquest of al-Andalus
  • Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.  Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson.  University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 12 - 14.
  • Description: Excerpts from an Egyptian history and a Spanish chronicle cite women's dishonor as the cause for war. In the first case a ruler in Morocco invites Arab forces to invade Spain as a revenge for his daughter's rape by the Visigothic king. In the second reading Pelagius, a Christian ruler in northern Spain, resists the Arabs whose leader had married his sister without his permission.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Honor Politics Revenge Warfare and Warriors
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  • Geographic Area: Iberia; Northern Africa
  • Century: 9- 10
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  • Related Resources: The first text is from Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources, ed. Olivia Remie Constable (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), p. 33. The second text is reproduced from Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain, ed. and trans. by Kenneth Baxter Wolf (Liverpool University Press, 1999), pp. 164-165.
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520296534