Resumen de Las Navas de Tolosa: the beginning of the end of the “Reconquista”? The battle and its consequences according to the Christian sources of the thirteenth century
The Christian victory of 1212 had an enormous impact within and beyond the Iberian Peninsula. While the sources initially depict the exceptional dimensions of the event, the passage of time allowed the battle and its consequences to be evaluated and interpreted from a broader perspective. Some saw Las Navas as the beginning of the decay of the Almohad Caliphate; others believed that it had initiated the beginning of the end of Muslim domination in the Iberian Peninsula. This contribution deals with the memory of the battle in the sources of the thirteenth century.
