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E. W. Bovill (1892–1966)
Auteur van The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
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The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century (1958) 106 exemplaren
The Battle of Alcazar: An account of the defeat of Don Sebastian of Portugal at El-Ksar el-Kebir (1952) 9 exemplaren
Missions to the Niger : Volume I: The Journal of Friedrich Horneman's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years… (2010) 5 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Bovill, Edward William
- Geboortedatum
- 1892
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1966
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
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- 15
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- 170
- Populariteit
- #125,474
- Waardering
- 4.2
- Besprekingen
- 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.… (meer)