A History of Medieval Spain / / Joseph F. O'Callaghan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: O'Callaghan, Joseph F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (736 p.) :; 13 black-and-white illustration, 8 maps

This book is a comprehensive narrative history based on an impressively wide reading in the sources and secondary literature. It should prove useful to teachers, students, and general readers in European history. Soundly traditional in its organization, it gives primacy to political events without neglecting institutional, social, and cultural matters.―American Historical ReviewIllustrations, genealogical charts, maps, and an extensive bibliography round out a book that will be welcomed by scholars and students of Spanish and Portuguese history and literature, as well as by medievalists, as the fullest account to date of Spanish history in the Middle Ages.Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Likely to become the standard work in English, the book treats the entire Iberian Peninsula and all the people who inhabited it, from the coming of the Visigoths in the fifth century to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Integrating a wealth of information about the diverse peoples, institutions, religions, and customs that flourished in the states that are now Spain and Portugal, Joseph F. O'Callaghan focuses on the continuing attempts to impose political unity on the peninsula.O'Callaghan divides his story into five compact historical periods and discusses political, social, economic, and cultural developments in each period. By treating states together, he is able to put into proper perspective the relationships among them, their similarities and differences, and the continuity of development from one period to the next. He gives proper attention to Spain's contacts with the rest of the medieval world, but his main concern is with the events and institutions on the peninsula itself.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations/Maps -- Preface -- Abbreviations For Citations -- Hispania -- Part I. The Visigothic Era 415—711 -- 1. The Visigothic Kingdom -- 2. Visigothic Government -- 3. Visigothic Society And Culture -- Part II. The Ascendancy Of Islam 711-1031 -- 4. The Emirate Of Córdoba -- 5. The Caliphate of Córdoba -- 6. Government, Society, and Culture in al-Andalus, 711-1031 -- 7. Government, Society, and Culture in Christian Spain, 711-1035 -- PART III. A Balance of Power, from the Jail of the Caliphate to Las Navas de Tolosa 1031-1212 -- 8. Alfonso VI, the Taifas, and the Almoravids -- 9. Alfonso VII and the Leonese Empire -- 10. The Duel with the Almohads -- 11. Government, 1031-1212 -- 12. Society and the Economy, 1031-1212 -- 13. Religion and Culture, 1031-1212 -- PART IV. The Great Reconquest and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion 1212-1369 -- 14. The Great Reconquest -- 15. Alfonso X and the Lure of Empire -- 16. The Overseas Expansion of the Crown of Aragon -- 17. The Straits, the Mediterranean, and Civil War -- 18. Government, 1212-1369 -- 19. Society and the Economy, 1212-1369 -- 20. Religion and Culture, 1212-1369 -- PART V. The Struggle for Peninsular Union 1369-1479 -- 21. The Early Trastámaras -- 22. The Hegemony of the Trastámaras -- 23. Government, 1369-1479 -- 24. Society and the Economy, 1369-1479 -- 25. Religion and Culture, 1369-1479 -- Epilogue -- The Catholic Kings and the Perfect Prince -- Genealogical Charts, Bibliography, and Index -- Genealogical Charts -- Bibliography -- Index