The first centers of Christian resistance:
Following the rapid Muslim conquest of most of the peninsula in the northern mountains began to organize resistance cores Christians. Until the tenth century, these cores simply resist or occupy uninhabited areas like northern Duero Basin. Hegemony in this period is in the hands of Al-Andalus.
Main stages of the Reconquest:
It has come to be known as the Reconquista period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the years 718 (probable date of the rebellion of Pelayo) and 1492 (end of the kingdom of Granada). During this long period, Christian and Muslim kingdoms coexisted and fought on the mainland.
The term is highly questionable. Despite the efforts of some of the Christian kingdoms to present themselves as "successors" of visiogodos, realms "recaptured" the peninsula were born after the Islamic invasion. However, the term is widely used among historians, both in Spain and abroad, to designate this historical period.
Models of recruitment and social organization of the
Christian kingdoms:
Quickness or pinched in the repopulation of the Douro valley or flat Vic (desert-like).
Restocking of the high valleys of the Júcar-Turia and Guadiana.
Restocking of Extremadura, Guadalquivir Valley and Levantine facade.
A plural culture: Christians, Muslims and Jews:
During the Middle Ages, while war and confrontation took place coexistence and fusion of the three cultures and religions in the peninsula: the Christian, Muslim and Jewish.
In the ninth century there was a key fact: the descubrimento of the remains of St. James. Thus was born the Pilgrim pilgrimage. The Camino de Santiago became a key route of cultural diffusion. They literary models, such as epics, and artistic styles such as Romanesque and Gothic. The cultural influence also occurred in the opposite direction and the cultural contributions of Hispanic Christian kingdoms and cultural influence came hispanomusulmana the rest of Europe.
the Romanesque:
In the eleventh century Hispanic lands entered Romanesque art, international style of Christianity of the time. Its most unique feature was the dominance of the massif on the span and the symbolic nature of most of its elements, the most significant buildings in this style are the Catalan monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll, the Cathedral of Jaca, Aragon, the church San Martin de Frómista, Palencia land, and the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
the Gothic:
From the thirteenth century Christendom triumphed in a new style, Gothic. In contrast to the Romanesque, Gothic gave primacy to the span of the massif, while looking for features such as verticality and lightness. He also characterized his claim naturalista.La painting, meanwhile, achieved great development in the fifteenth century, with such important names in the Crown of Castile, as the Spanish Jorge (Portrait of Inigo Lopez de Mendoza) or Fernando Gallego (martyrdom of St. Catherine), and Bartolomé Bermejo (Santo Domingo) and Jaime Huguet (the martyrdom of Christ) in the Crown of Aragon.
