The Shadow of the Brown Knight

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By the first quarter of the 13th century, the city of Salamanca had changed a great deal. Outside the original wall, villages had been created close to it, formed by different groups of re-settlers such as Castilians, Franks, Portuguese, Bregantians, etc., who were initially more vulnerable to Muslim raids, as they were not protected by the city wall.
Over the years, the Christian conquest extended southwards and the danger from the Muslims disappeared, but clashes began between the Castilian and Leonese kings that affected their cities, as the different kings sought the support of the city's knights. The city of Salamanca took advantage of the conflicts between the different Castilian and Leonese monarchs, in which it was embroiled, to try to alter the composition of its council, which was not done peacefully, but through a series of oaths, chapters, or corrales of the knights from the different groups that populated the city: outside the portiellos of the council, which led them to harsh and bloody confrontations.
This novel recounts how these events unfolded through its main protagonists, their emotions, their feelings, while also narrating what the city and life within it were like in the first quarter of the 13th century.