Reconquista starts! Pelayo and Covadonga

The History of Spain Podcast

This is episode 22 called Reconquista starts! Pelayo and Covadonga and in this episode you will learn:
SHOW NOTES
- Why a Christian kingdom first emerged in Asturias and not in other regions
- A disucssion on the reliability of the Asturian Chronicles and the context in which they were written
- The Asturian origins of Pelayo
- Context of the Battle of Covadonga, the reasons for the revolt and the election of Pelayo
- The actual scale of the Battle of Covadonga
- Details of the Battle of Covadonga and its aftermath, with the rise of the caudillo Pelayo and the fragility of the newborn kingdom
- The importance of Pedro, the Duke of Cantabria
- The short reign of Favila of Asturias
- What is the Reconquista: as a historical period, ideology, and colonization
- What are the most common historiographic objections and challenges to the Reconquista
- My opinion on the accuracy of the idea of the Reconquista: why, not without some buts, I find the Reconquista as a valid idea
- Reflection about the use of exaggerations in historiography