Peter Linehan

Spain, 1157-1300

A Partible Inheritance

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• A History of Spain
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2011
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781444339758
• ISBN-10: 1444339753
• Artikelnr.: 32959819

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"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)