Cordoba: A History of the City and Her People Throughout the Ages

A tribute to Antonio Jaén Morente, in recognition of his lifetime researching and studying Cordoba, his granddaughters Angela, Cristina and Magdalena Gorrell Jaén undertook to translate, annotate and publish his history of Cordoba with a view to sharing his remarkable, detailed work with everyone, especially visitors to Cordoba and interested readers who are more comfortable with the English language. Held to be one of the great Spanish intellectuals - university professor, author and diplomat, Member of Parliament and eminent Republican, Antonio Jaén Morente speaks directly to the reader as a professor before his students. First published in 1921, corrected and updated by the author several times prior to his death in 1964, the posthumous 1971 Spanish edition of this book on which his granddaughters based their translation, has been reprinted several times since then and continues to lead sales of histories of Cordoba nationwide.