The Invasion Of Spain

Part I of Essay
The episode of comes next in chronological order. The condition of the dignified Iberian Church, still suffering under Moslem domination, appealed strongly to the king's sympathy. In 777 there came to Paderborn three Moorish emirs, enemies of the Ommeyad Abderrahman, the M ....

Part II of Essay
.... though Pampelona was razed, and Barcelona and other cities fell, Saragossa held out. Apart from the moral effect of this campaign upon the Moslem rulers of Spain, its result was insignificant, though the famous ambuscade in which perished Roland, the great Paladin, at the Pass of Roncesvalles, furnished to the medieval world the material for its most glorious and influential epic, the "Chanson de Roland". Much more important to posterity were the next succeeding events which continued and decided the long struggle in Saxony. During the Span ....