{"product_id":"lost-paradise-the-story-of-granada-paperback","title":"Lost Paradise: The Story of Granada - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Drayson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson. \u003cbr\u003e'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as a storyteller' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBBC History Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'A glittering homage to one of the world's most beautiful and storied cities' \u003cb\u003eDan Jones\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'Beauty built on blood and brutality... A fascinating new tome' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the early Middle Ages to the present, foreign travellers have been bewitched by Granada's peerless beauty. The Andalusian city is also the stuff of story and legend, with an unforgettable history to match. Romans, then Visigoths, settled here, as did a community of Jews; in the eleventh century a Berber chief made Granada his capital, and from 1230 until 1492 the Nasrids - Spain's last Islamic dynasty - ruled the emirate of Granada from their fortress-palace of the Alhambra. After capturing the city to complete the Christian Reconquista, the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella made the Alhambra the site of their royal court. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLost Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, Elizabeth Drayson takes the reader on a voyage of discovery that uncovers the many-layered past of Spain's most complex and fascinating city, celebrating and exploring its evolving identity. Her account brings to the fore the image of Granada as a lost paradise, revealing it as a place of perpetual contradiction and linking it to the great dilemma over Spain's true identity as a nation. This is the story of a vanished Eden, of a place that questions and probes Spain's deep obsession with forgetting, and with erasing historical and cultural memory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Drayson\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Fellow in Spanish at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge; she is a specialist in medieval and early modern Spanish literature and cultural history. The author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moor's Last Stand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lead Books of Granada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe King and the Whore\u003c\/i\u003e, Drayson has also produced the first translation and edition of Juan Ruiz's \u003ci\u003eLibro de buen amor\u003c\/i\u003e to appear in England. She lives in Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Drayson\u003c\/b\u003e is Emeritus Fellow in Spanish at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge; she is a specialist in medieval and early modern Spanish literature and cultural history. The author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moor's Last Stand\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lead Books of Granada\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe King and the Whore\u003c\/i\u003e, Drayson has also produced the first translation and edition of Juan Ruiz's \u003ci\u003eLibro de buen amor\u003c\/i\u003e to appear in England. She lives in Cambridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42155903451271,"sku":"9781788547437","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/350e99736f3a11be85aa991fb00af4c7.webp?v=1733239492","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/lost-paradise-the-story-of-granada-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}