The Great Castilian Wildfire of 949. Diplomatic Traces and Historical Memory of a Natural Disaster

In the mid-tenth Century a wildfire ravaged the northern Meseta, and particularly Castile, leaving its mark not only in the narrative records of the moment and of successive generations, but also, rather exceptionally, in the diplomatic register where, in the months following the disaster, there wou...

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Main Author: David PETERSON
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2019-06-01
Series:Studia Historica. Historia Medieval
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Online Access:https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/Studia_H_Historia_Medieval/article/view/20977