Published in Relations between History and Literature in Ancient and Medieval World

Keywords: Keywords: Chronicles, Isidore of Seville, Laude Spaniae, Middle Ages, Reconquest.

The presence of Laude Spaniae (Praise of Hispania) of Isidor, bishop of Seville in the medieval chronicles wrote in the Iberic Peninsula between the VIIIth and the XIVth centuries, by the Christian political powers, as an emotional part of the chronicle text, leading to the effort of military “reconquest” to the muslim powers in the andalusian parts of the Peninsula.