Spain, 1157-1300: A Partible Inheritance (A History of Spain) - Hardcover

Linehan, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 063117284X ISBN 13: 9780631172840

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

The years 1157 to 1312 constitute one of the most significant periods of Spain’s own development as well as of its relationship with the wider world. While the Christian reconquest of most of the part of the peninsula occupied by Spanish Islam proceeded further and faster than ever before, the cultural and intellectual consequences of its contact with ‘the other’ resonated throughout the schools and universities of Northern Europe. Yet despite this, the underlying weaknesses of a society disorganized by war and overstretched by its endeavours could neither be disguised nor remedied.

Spain 1157-1312 examines this fascinating period of medieval history, focussing on the reign of Alfonso the Learned – the ruler of Castile who ultimately failed in his attempt to bring Spain into Europe – and his Aragonese contemporaries in the Mediterranean. While questioning the assumption that the history of this period foreshadowed the unified Spain of the still far-distant Golden Age, Spain 1157-1312 draws on 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.

Spain 1157-1312 examines this fascinating period of medieval history, focussing on the reign of Alfonso the Learned – the ruler of Castile who ultimately failed in his attempt to bring Spain into Europe – and his Aragonese contemporaries in the Mediterranean. While questioning the assumption that the history of this period foreshadowed the unified Spain of the still far-distant Golden Age, Spain 1157-1312  draws on 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 063117284X
• ISBN 13: 9780631172840
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304