History and the Historians of Medieval Spain

Zusatztext This is an immensely learned book! which displays great sophistication within a very restricted area ... the persistent student may learn a great deal from what he has to say ... This book may! therefore! be recommended for its learning! at times for its wit! and for some mordant characterizations of major episodes in Spanish medieval history. Zusammenfassung A study of medieval Spain and its historians, from the chroniclers of the Middle Ages to the revisionists of the post-Franco era. This book reveals history in the making during the 800 years between the Roman period and what is now described as the birth of the modern state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; Philip II and Hermenegild; III Toledo and its legacy; King Wamba and XII Toledo; The chronicle of Alfonso III; The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon; Leon and Castile in the eleventh century; The reconquest of Toledo 1085; 1147; Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula; Toledo after 1182; The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispaniae; D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas; The later thirteenth century; Yet again the coronation of 1135; Toledo after 1295; Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum; The chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Linehan, Peter (Fellow and Tutor Linehan, Linehan Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1993
• EAN: 9780198219453
• ISBN: 978-0-19-821945-3
• No. of pages: 766
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Spain, Historiography, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, c 500 to c 1000 CE, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Spain