Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada's Minor Histories

This book provides the first complete English translation of works by the Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170–1247 CE). The Minor Histories, serving as supplements to Rodrigo’s much larger Gothic History, covered the Romans, Huns, Vandals, Alans, Suevi, Ostrogoths and Arabs, explaining how these peoples contributed to what he saw as Spain’s tragic history of calamities. The last work in the series – his History of the Arabs – can be regarded as the first surviving Western monog...