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Spain, 1157-1300
A Partible Inheritance
Peter Linehan (Author)
9781444339758, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 18 March 2011
304 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg
"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)
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.
Preface ix Chronology xii List of Abbreviations xv Tree showing some of those mentioned in these pages xvii Map of Spain in the thirteenth century xviii 1 1157–79 Past and Present 1 After the Emperor 7 Two Royal Minorities 24 2 The Age of Las Navas Life, Law and Memory 36 Three Battles 40 Implications of the Vernacular 46 Castile Victorious 53 3 1214–48 Doña Berenguela and Son 57 ‘The Gate is Open and the Way is Clear’ 60 Towards Valencia 62 Conquest and Colonization 69 Toledo and Seville 75 After Valencia 80 The Mediterranean Dimension 83 4 Some Permanent Features Jews 87 Moors 95 Hunger, Kings and Capitals 100 5 1252–9 Alfonso X: Promising Beginnings 104 A Command Economy 114 The Law 121 Implications of Empire 129 6 1259–74 Toledo and Translations 133 International Complications 145 The Mudéjar Rising 149 The Alfonsine Histories 162 7 1275–84 A Reign in Ruins 169 France and Aragón 175 1282 185 Aragón Alone 199 The Learned King 204 8 The Changed Balance Castile after 1284 210 A Question of Alliances 215 ‘Neither Truth nor Faith’ 229 Epilogue 233 Bibliography 235 Glossary 268 Index 270
Subject Areas: History [HB]
