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Book Synopsis Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Download or read book Alfonso X, the Cortes, and Government in Medieval Spain written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies included in this volume, written over a period of nearly thirty years, deal principally with two major themes, namely, the reign of Alfonso X, el Sabio (1252-84), one of the great kings of medieval Spain, and the development of the cortes of Castile-León, a characteristc example of the emergence of European representative parliamentary institutions. An introductory study describes the integration of medieval Spain into western Europe in the late eleventh century.
Book Synopsis Political Theory and Law in Medieval Spain by : Marie Regina Madden
Download or read book Political Theory and Law in Medieval Spain written by Marie Regina Madden and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Download or read book Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete Partidas, and its applications in the daily life of thirteenth-century Iberia, both within and far beyond the royal courts. O'Callaghan argues that Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise), was the Justinian of his age, one of the truly great legal minds of human history. Alfonso X, the Justinian of His Age highlights the struggles the king faced in creating a new, coherent, inclusive, and all-embracing body of law during his reign, O'Callaghan also considers Alfonso X's own understanding of his role as king, lawgiver, and defender of the faith in order to evaluate the impact of his achievement on the administration of justice. Indeed, such was the power and authority of the Alfonsine code that it proved the king's downfall when his son invoked it to challenge his rule. Throughout this soaring legal and historical biography, O'Callaghan reminds us of the long-term impacts of Alfonso X's legal works, not just on Castilian (and later, Iberian) life, but on the administration of justice across the world.
Book Synopsis Alfonso X, the Learned by : H. Salvador Mart Nez
Download or read book Alfonso X, the Learned written by H. Salvador Mart Nez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly groundbreaking book, presenting a portrait of Alfonso X, monarch and medieval intellectual "par excellence," and the extraordinary cultural history of Spain at that time.
Book Synopsis War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon by : Donald J. Kagay
Download or read book War, Government, and Society in the Medieval Crown of Aragon written by Donald J. Kagay and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this collection of articles by Donald J. Kagay is the effect of the expansion of royal government on the societies of the medieval Crown of Aragon. He traces how, in the long conflicts against Spanish Islam and neighbouring Christian states during the 13th and 14th centuries, the relationships of royal to customary law, of monarchical to aristocratic power, and of Christian to Jewish and Muslim populations, all became issues that marked the transition of the medieval Crown of Aragon to the early modern states of Catalonia, Aragon and Valencia.
Book Synopsis Chronicle of Alfonso X by : Shelby Thacker
Download or read book Chronicle of Alfonso X written by Shelby Thacker and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfonso X (1221–1284) reigned as king of Castile and León from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the history of Spain since its Roman settlement. Among them were the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a collection of over four hundred poems exalting his favorite patron saint, Mary, and chronicles of all the kings of Castile and León, Navarre, Aragón, and Portugal. Alfonso X died before his own life could be written. His was a reign fraught with political intrigue and double crosses, almost constant war and equally constant diplomacy, royal largesse and economic instability—all of which led to open revolt and efforts by Alfonso's own son to depose the king. It would be another sixty-some years before King Alfonso XI would commission Fernán Sánchez de Valladolid to write Cronica de Alfonso X to memorialize his great-grandfather. As Alfonso XI's trusted counselor, ambassador, diplomat, and legist, Fernán was an understandable choice, but in the centuries since, his convoluted prose has proven extremely difficult extremely difficult for scholars. Chronicle of Alfonso X is the first and only translation of the king's history. The original "clumsy Castilian" of Fernán Sánchez has now been transformed into literate and engaging English.
Book Synopsis The Gibraltar Crusade by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Download or read book The Gibraltar Crusade written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic battle for control of the Strait of Gibraltar waged by Castile, Morocco, and Granada in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries is a major, but often overlooked, chapter in the history of the Christian reconquest of Spain. After the Castilian conquest of Seville in 1248 and the submission of the Muslim kingdom of Granada as a vassal state, the Moors no longer loomed as a threat and the reconquest seemed to be over. Still, in the following century, the Castilian kings, prompted by ideology and strategy, attempted to dominate the Strait. As self-proclaimed heirs of the Visigoths, they aspired not only to reconstitute the Visigothic kingdom by expelling the Muslims from Spain but also to conquer Morocco as part of the Visigothic legacy. As successive bands of Muslims over the centuries had crossed the Strait from Morocco into Spain, the kings of Castile recognized the strategic importance of securing Algeciras, Gibraltar, and Tarifa, the ports long used by the invaders. At a time when European enthusiasm for the crusade to the Holy Land was on the wane, the Christian struggle for the Strait received the character of a crusade as papal bulls conferred the crusading indulgence as well as ancillary benefits. The Gibraltar Crusade had mixed results. Although the Castilians seized Gibraltar in 1309 and Algeciras in 1344, the Moors eventually repossessed them. Only Tarifa, captured in 1292, remained in Castilian hands. Nevertheless, the power of the Marinid dynasty of Morocco was broken at the battle of Salado in 1340, and for the remainder of the Middle Ages Spain was relieved of the threat of Moroccan invasion. While the reconquest remained dormant during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, Ferdinand and Isabella conquered Granada, the last Muslim outpost in Spain, in 1492. In subsequent years Castile fulfilled its earlier aspirations by establishing a foothold in Morocco.
Book Synopsis Kingship in Medieval Spain by : Robert Alan MacDonald
Download or read book Kingship in Medieval Spain written by Robert Alan MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Fernando Arias Guillén Publisher :Studies in Medieval History an ISBN 13 :9780367512279 Total Pages :248 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (122 download)
Book Synopsis The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage by : Fernando Arias Guillén
Download or read book The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage written by Fernando Arias Guillén and published by Studies in Medieval History an. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. The representation of kingship in Castile (1252-1350): sacred monarchy, the ethos of the Reconquista, and the legitimacy troubles of an accursed lineage -- 2. A kingdom comprising several realms -- 3. Royal itineration and kingship in Castile (1252-1350): the kingdom's Ccapitals and the absence of a dynastic mausoleum -- 4. A plural monarchy (I): queenship and royal power in Castile (1252-1350) -- 5. A plural monarchy (II): defining the royal family in Castile (1252-1350) -- 6. Nobles and kingship (I): the 'conflictive cooperation' between the Ricoshombres and the king in Castile (1252-1350) -- 7. Nobles and kingship (II): the representation of the Castilian nobility in the Privilegios Rodados (1252-1350).
Book Synopsis A History of Medieval Spain by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Download or read book A History of Medieval Spain written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Illustrations, genealogical charts, maps, and an extensive bibliography round out a book that will be welcomed by scholars and student 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.
Book Synopsis Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Download or read book Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula that began in the early eighth century was transformed into a crusade by the papacy during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Successive popes accorded to Christian warriors willing to participate in the peninsular wars against Islam the same crusading benefits offered to those going to the Holy Land. Joseph F. O'Callaghan clearly demonstrates that any study of the history of the crusades must take a broader view of the Mediterranean to include medieval Spain. Following a chronological overview of crusading in the Iberian peninsula from the late eleventh to the middle of the thirteenth century, O'Callaghan proceeds to the study of warfare, military finance, and the liturgy of reconquest and crusading. He concludes his book with a consideration of the later stages of reconquest and crusade up to and including the fall of Granada in 1492, while noting that the spiritual benefits of crusading bulls were still offered to the Spanish until the Second Vatican Council of 1963. Although the conflict described in this book occurred more than eight hundred years ago, recent events remind the world that the intensity of belief, rhetoric, and action that gave birth to crusade, holy war, and jihad remains a powerful force in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Emergence of León-Castile c.1065-1500 by : James J. Todesca
Download or read book The Emergence of León-Castile c.1065-1500 written by James J. Todesca and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many medieval Europeans north of the Pyrenees, the Iberian Kingdom of León-Castile was remote and unfamiliar. In many ways such perceptions linger today, and the fact that León-Castile is mentioned at all in current textbooks is the result of efforts begun by scholars some forty years ago. Joseph F. O'Callaghan was part of a small group of English-speaking medievalists who banded together at conferences in the early 1970s to share their knowledge of Spain. O'Callaghan's general A History of Medieval Spain (1975) introduced a generation of English-speaking medievalists to Iberia. Still much of the new scholarly interest over the past decades has been directed toward the Kingdom of Aragon-Catalonia with its exceptionally well-preserved archives. The Emergence of León-Castile brings together the current research of O'Callaghan's colleagues, students and friends. The essays focus on the politics, law and economy of León-Castile from its first great leap forward in the eleventh century to the civil strife of the fifteenth. No other volume in English allows the reader to trace the institutional development of the kingdom with this chronological breadth. At the same time the volume integrates the Leonese experience into the wider discussions of lordship and power. While León-Castile's culture was certainly its own, the kingdom shared in and influenced the institutional and economic development of its fellow Christian kingdoms both in Spain and north of the Pyrenees. The kings of León and Castile were among the first European rulers to invite townsmen to their assemblies. At the same time, they attempted to regulate their economy through sumptuary legislation and wage and price freezes. And, their centuries-long colonization southwards influenced the Germanic expansion across the Elbe, the English drive into Wales and Ireland and the Latin settlement in the Crusader states. In conclusion this collection underlines the fact that León-Castile was not an isolated backwater but a sophisticated state that had an important influence on the development of medieval and renaissance Europe.
Book Synopsis Friendship in Medieval Iberia by : Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Download or read book Friendship in Medieval Iberia written by Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private and public relationships - frequently labelled as friendships - have always played a crucial role in human societies. Yet, over the centuries ideas and meanings of friendship transformed, adapting to the political and social climates of different periods. Changing concepts and practices of friendship characterized the intellectual, social, political and cultural panorama of medieval Europe, including that of thiteenth-century Iberia. Subject of conquests and 'Reconquest', land of convivencia, but also of political instability, as well as of secular and religious international power-struggles: the articulation of friendship within its borders is a particularly fraught subject to study. Drawing on some of the encyclopaedic vernacular masterpieces produced in the scriptorium of 'The Wise' King, Alfonso X of Castile (1252-84), this study explores the political, religious and social networks, inter-faith and gender relationships, legal definitions, as well as bonds of tutorship and companionship, which were frequently defined through the vocabulary and rhetoric of friendship. This study demonstares how the values and meanings of amicitia, often associated with classical, Roman, Visigothic and Eastern traditions, were transformed to adapt to Alfonso X’s cultural projects and political propaganda. This book contributes to the study of the history of emotions and cultural histories of the Middle Ages, while also emphasizing how Iberia was a peripheral, but still vital, ring in a chiain which linked it to the rest of Europe, while also occupying a central role in the historical and cultural developments of the Western Mediterranean.
Book Synopsis Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia by : Donald J. Kagay
Download or read book Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia written by Donald J. Kagay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia Donald Kagay and Andrew Villalon explore the background, administrative, diplomatic, economic, and military results, and the aftermath of the War of the Two Pedros between Castile and the Crown of Aragon (1356-1366) and the Castilian Civil War (1366-1369).
Author :Roger Bigelow Merriman Publisher :New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1962 [c1918] ISBN 13 : Total Pages :582 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New: The Middle Ages by : Roger Bigelow Merriman
Download or read book The Rise of the Spanish Empire in the Old World and in the New: The Middle Ages written by Roger Bigelow Merriman and published by New York : Cooper Square Publishers, 1962 [c1918]. This book was released on 1962 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Joseph F. O'Callaghan Publisher :University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection ISBN 13 : Total Pages :292 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Cortes of Castile-León, 1188-1350 by : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Download or read book The Cortes of Castile-León, 1188-1350 written by Joseph F. O'Callaghan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection. This book was released on 1989 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the English parliament, the French Estates, and the German imperial diet, the cortes of medieval Castile and Leon is an example of development of the parliamentary system.
Book Synopsis Las Siete Partidas: Medieval government. Introduction to the second Partida. How to be a King ; Officials of court and realm ; Castles and their rituals ; Knights and chivalry ; Captains, seargeants and soldiery ; War at sea ; Rewards, ransom and booty ; Universities as defense of the Realm ; Suggestions for reading by : Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon)
Download or read book Las Siete Partidas: Medieval government. Introduction to the second Partida. How to be a King ; Officials of court and realm ; Castles and their rituals ; Knights and chivalry ; Captains, seargeants and soldiery ; War at sea ; Rewards, ransom and booty ; Universities as defense of the Realm ; Suggestions for reading written by Alfonso X (King of Castile and Leon) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las siete partidas, or, The seven divisions, is a major law code of thirteenth-century Spain compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later this compendium of legal and customary information remains the foundation of modern Spanish law. The work's scope offers insight into the social, intellectual, and cultural history of medieval Spain. Editor and medieval historian Robert I. Burns, S.J., provides critical historical material in a new general introduction and extensive introductions to each Partida.
