Spain, 1157-1300
A Partible Inheritance
Published on 18. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-4443-3975-8 (ISBN)
Description
Spain, 1157-1300 makes use of a vast body of primary and secondary source material to provide a balanced overview of a crucial period of Spanish as well as of European history.
* Examines the most significant phase of Spanish mainland development
* Considers the profound intellectual consequences of Christian advances into Islamic Spain
* Explores the varying fortunes of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, and focuses on the reign of the learned Alfonso X of Castile
* Utilizes the vast body of primary and secondary source material published over the past 30 years
Reviews / Votes
"This is a masterly revisiting of the period, every clause of Linehan's sentences embodying not only that eloquence of rhetorical style he so admired in the work of another Fellow of St. John's, Prof. John Cook (see the obituary by Lineham in The Independent, 15 September 2007), but a freshness and vitality of vision that find their fullest expression in his portrait of King Alfonso el Sabio." (Speculuma Medieval Studies, April 2011)More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4443-3975-8 (9781444339758)
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Person
Peter Linehan is Fellow and Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, and Corresponding Member of the Spanish Academy of History.
Content
Preface.
Chronology.
List of Abbreviations.
Tree showing some of those mentioned in these pages.
Map of Spain in the thirteenth century.
1 1157-1179.
Past and Present.
After the Emperor.
Two Royal Minorities.
2 The Age of Las Navas.
Life, Law and Memory.
Three Battles.
Implications of the Vernacular.
Castile Victorious.
3 1214-1248.
Doña Berenguela and Son.
'The Gate is Open and the Way Is Clear'.
Towards Valencia.
Conquest and Colonization.
Toledo and Seville.
After Valencia.
The Mediterranean Dimension.
4 Some Permanent Features.
Jews.
Moors.
Hunger, Kings and Capitals.
5 1252-1259.
Alfonso X: Promising Beginnings.
A Command Economy.
The Law.
Implications of Empire.
6 1259-1274.
Toledo and Translations.
International Complications.
The Mudéjar Rising.
The Alfonsine Histories.
7 1275-1284.
A Reign in Ruins.
France and Aragón.
1282.
Aragón Alone.
The Learned King.
8 The Changed Balance.
Castile after 1284.
A Question of Alliances.
'Neither Truth nor Faith'.
Epilogue.
Bibliography.
Glossary.
Index.