E. W. Bovill (1892–1966)
Autor de The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
Sobre El Autor
Obras de E. W. Bovill
The Battle of Alcazar: An account of the defeat of Don Sebastian of Portugal at El-Ksar el-Kebir (1952) 9 copias
Missions to the Niger : Volume I: The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years… (2010) 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Bovill, Edward William
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1892
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1966
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- Miembros
- 169
- Popularidad
- #126,057
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 22
The battle was fairly large (16 000 Portuguese combatants and allegedly 60 000+ Moroccans) and tolerably important, inaugurating something of a golden age for the Moroccan monarchy under Abd al-Malik's brother and successor Al-Mansur, and, because both Sebastian and his uncle and heir Henry died childless, leading to personal union between Spain and Portugal two years later, so I was surprised that this appears to be the most recent book about it in English. It's a popular history of the kind that doesn't hesitate to pass judgement: the young king Sebastian is portrayed as having very few redeeming features beyond personal bravery, Philip II of Spain (also Philip I of Portugal from 1580) is portrayed as simultaneously vacillating and fanatical, etc. While Bovill didn't think much of Moroccans generally, the portrait of Abd al-Malik personally is rather glowing.
While not worse than that I perserved - it helps it's just ~200pp - I'm happy I got a free copy off the 'Net; money on this would not have felt well spent.… (más)