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[[File:Enelaboracion.jpg|right|thumb|none|300px|Illustration: Patio de Doncellas, Real Alcázar de Sevilla. Palace builted by Pedro I (14<sup>th</sup> century)]]
The Middle Ages in the Peninsula is the historical period that goes from the battle of Guadalete (711) –other records situate its beginning in 540 when the new seat of the Visigothic kingdom is established in Toledo– up to 1492, the year of the conquest of Granada, the discovery of America, the first grammar of the language by Nebrija, and the expulsion of the Jews. It is debated however, whether the period led by the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand (1469-1517) can no longer be considered medieval but typical of the Modern Age, the next period. On the other hand, traditional historiography calls ''Reconquista '' to these eight hundred years, understood as a permanent struggle for the “recovery of Spain”. This idea was coined by the Mozarabs, who fled from the Islamised south of the Peninsula to the Christian lands of the north.
The battle of Guadalete, in which the last Visigothic king, Don Rodrigo, is defeated in an expedition of the Muslim leader Tariq, begins the fulmimant campaign that reaches the capital city of Toledo that same year. In successive journeys, along the Hispano-Roman road network, the different territories of the Hispano-Visigothic aristocracy or the episcopate were subjugated. Some great lords were maintained through pacts of submission, such as Count Teodomiro (Tudmir, in Murcia), or that of the family of Count Cassius who, Islamised as Banu Quasi, remained in the middle valley of the Ebro.
The speed of the conquest prevented an effective occupation of many territories. Pelayo, the Visigothic noble welcomed by the Cantabrian tribe of the Vadinienses, led a legendary resistance in the Picos de Europa, where [https://www.abc.es/historia/abci-epica-pelayo-caudillo-astur-prendio-reconquista-300-guerreros-201908100203_noticia.html the Battle of Covadonga] (722) took place. The kingdom of Asturias will be the territorial reference for unsubjugated Christians, with successive capital cities in Cangas de Onís (eighth century) and Oviedo (ninth century). Covadonga is magnified by the early medieval Christian chronicles (and minimised by the Muslims) as the initial milestone of the ''Reconquista''.
{{ANEAutoria|Autores= María Sánchez Agustí, José Antonio Álvarez Castrillón, Mercedes de la Calle Carracedo, Daniel Galván Desvaux, Joaquín García Andrés, Isidoro González Gallego, Montserrat León Guerrero, Esther López Torres, Carlos Lozano Ruiz, Ignacio Martín Jiménez, Rosendo Martínez Rodríguez, Rafael de Miguel González}}
