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Informationen zum Autor Joseph F. O'Callaghan Klappentext '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.'-The American Historical Review Zusammenfassung Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Abbreviations for Citations Hispania PART I: THE VISIGOTH ERA, 415-711 1. The Visigothic Kingdom 2. Visigothic Government 3. Visigothic Society and CulturePART 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, 711-1035PART III. A BALANCE OF POWER, FROM THE FALL 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, 1031-1212PART 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, 1212-1369PART 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, 1369-1479EPILOGUE The Catholic Kings and the Perfect PrinceGENEALOGICAL CHARTS 1. Umayyad Emirs and Caliphs of Córdoba, 756-1031 2. Kings of Asturias-León to 1037 3. Rulers of Navarre, Aragon, and Barcelona to 1035 4. Rulers of Portugal, León, and Castile, 1035-1214 5. Rulers of Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, and Provence, 1035-1214 6. Kings of Navarre, 1194-1512 7. Kings of León-Castile, 1214-1504 8. Kings of Portugal, 1211-1521 9. Kings of Aragon, 1213-1516 10. The Nasrid Kings of Granada, 1232-1492BIBLIOGRAPHY Abbreviations General Works Part I: The Visigothic Era Part II: The Ascendancy of Islam Part III: A Balance of Power, from the Fall of the Caliphate to Las Navas de Tolosa Part IV: The Great Reconquest and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion Part V: The Struggle for Peninsular Union Epilogue: The Catholic Kings and the Perfect Prince INDEX ...
