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Alexander and the Almohads: telling the stories of antiquity before and after Las Navas

In this essay, I examine the extent to which the narration of versions of the life of Alexander the Great were responsive to the battle at Las Navas de Tolosa, and the ways in which subsequent generations of writers used those romances to explore the battle and its consequences. With particular reference to two codices, containing strikingly similar collections of texts relating both to the life of Alexander the Great and to the rise of the Almohad Empire, I describe the persistence of Alexander romances in the construction of memory and note the similar ways in which later Jewish and Christian historians used them to reflect upon the battle at Las Navas de Tolosa and its religious and political underpinnings.