• The Guanches and the Conquest of Lanzarote

  • Dec 5 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
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The Guanches and the Conquest of Lanzarote

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  • In this episode we start talking about the conquest of the Canary Islands. We start with a brief description of the time period, both in Europe and Spain, as well as the customs and life of the Guanches before the arrival of Europeans.

    We discuss the first contacts and finally the lordly conquest (conquista señorial) of Lanzarote at the hands of the Normands Jean de Bethencourt and Gadifer de la Salle. Their chronicles were written by the Franciscans Jean Le Verrier and Pierre Boutier, authors of "Le Canarien". Le Canarien is the first conquest chronicle of the Canaries and the first lengthy descriptions of the prehispanic Canarians.
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