Medieval Spain

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468728

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A History of Medieval Spain by Joseph F. O'Callaghan Pdf

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.

Author : Roger Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Espagne - Histoire - 414-711 (Période gothique)
ISBN : 0333262832

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Early Medieval Spain by Roger Collins Pdf

Author : Peter Linehan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015048641347

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History and the Historians of Medieval Spain by Peter Linehan Pdf

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.

Author : Jerrilynn Denise Dodds
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0271006714

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Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds Pdf

In analyzing the early medieval architecture of Christian and Islamic Spain, Jerrilynn Dodds explores the principles of artistic response to social and cultural tension, offering an account of that unique artistic experience that set Spain apart from the rest of Europe and established a visual identity born of the confrontation of cultures that perceived one another as alien. Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain covers the Spanish medieval experience from the Visigothic oligarchy to the year 1000, addressing a variety of cases of cultural interchange. It examines the embattled reactive stance of Hispano-Romans to their Visigothic rulers and the Asturian search for a new language of forms to support a political position dissociated from the struggles of a peninsula caught in the grip of a foreign and infidel rule. Dodds then examines the symbolic meaning of the Mozarabic churches of the tenth century and their reflection of the Mozarabs' threatened cultural identity. The final chapter focuses on two cases of artistic interchange between Islamic and Christian builders with a view toward understanding the dynamics of such interchange between conflicting cultures. Dodds concludes with a short account of the beginning of Romanesque architecture in Spain and an analysis of some of the ways in which artistic expression can reveal the subconscious of a culture.

Author : Mark T. Abate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319964812

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Convivencia and Medieval Spain by Mark T. Abate Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F. Glick. Using a wide array of innovative methodological approaches, these essays offer insights on areas of medieval Iberian history that have been of particular interest to Glick: irrigation, the history of science, and cross-cultural interactions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims. By bringing together original research on topics ranging from water management and timekeeping to poetry and women’s history, this volume crosses disciplinary boundaries and reflects the wide-ranging, gap-bridging work of Glick himself, a pivotal figure in the historiography of medieval Spain.

Author : Kenneth Baxter Wolf
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0853235546

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Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain by Kenneth Baxter Wolf Pdf

Chronicle / John of Biclaro -- History of the Kings of the Goths / Isidore of Seville -- The Chronicle of 754 -- The Chronicle of Alfonso III.

Author : Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203066

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Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain by Joseph F. O'Callaghan Pdf

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.

Author : Melanie Little
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781554512942

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The Apprentice's Masterpiece by Melanie Little Pdf

Fifteenth-century Spain is a richly multicultural society in which Jews, Muslims, and Christians coexist. But under the zealous Christian Queen Isabella, the country abruptly becomes one of the most murderously intolerant places on Earth. It is in this atmosphere that the Benvenistes, a family of scribes, attempt to eke out a living. The family has a secret—they are conversos: Jews who converted to Christianity. Now, with neighbors and friends turned into spies, fear hangs in the air. One day a young man is delivered to their door. His name is Amir, and he wears the robe and red patch of a Muslim. Fifteen-year-old Ramon Benveniste broods over Amir’s easy acceptance into the family. Startling and dramatic events overtake the household, and the family is torn apart. One boy becomes enslaved, the other takes up service for the Inquisitors. Finally, their paths cross again in a stunningly haunting scene.

Author : R. Collins,A. Goodman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403919779

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Medieval Spain by R. Collins,A. Goodman Pdf

This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.

Author : Stephen R. Bown
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781553659099

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1494 by Stephen R. Bown Pdf

When Columbus triumphantly returned from America to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smouldering conflict between Spain's renowned monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's oceans? To quell the argument, Pope Alexander VI - the notorious Rodrigo Borgia - issued a proclamation laying the foundation for the Treaty of Tordesillas, an edict that created an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean dividing the entire known (and unknown) world between Spain and Portugal. Just as the world's oceans were about to be opened by Columbus's epochal voyage, the treaty sought to limit the seas to these two favoured Catholic nations. The edict was to have a profound influence on world history: it propelled Spain and Portugal to superpower status, steered many other European nations on a collision course and became the central grievance in two centuries of international espionage, piracy and warfare. At the heart of one of the greatest international diplomatic and political agreements of the last five centuries were the strained relationships and passions of a handful of powerful individuals. They were linked by a shared history, mutual animosity and personal obligations.

Author : Luis Monreal y Tejada
Publisher : Konemann
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004422395

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Medieval Castles of Spain by Luis Monreal y Tejada Pdf

Author : Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271027401

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Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain by Katrin Kogman-Appel Pdf

Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated Passover Haggadot in the early decades of the fourteenth century. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain describes how the Sephardic Haggadot reflect different visualizations of scripture under various conditions and aimed at a variety of audiences. Though the specifics of the creation of these works remain a mystery, this book delves into the cultural struggles that existed during this period in history and shows how those conflicts influenced the work. The culture surrounding the creators of the Sephardic Haggadot was saturated in conflict revolving around acculturation, polemics with Christianity, and struggles within Sephardic Jewry itself. Kogman-Appel presents the Sephardic Haggadot as visual manifestations of a minority struggling for cultural identity both in relation to the dominant culture and within its own realm.

Author : Mark D. Meyerson,Edward D. English
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268087265

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Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Mark D. Meyerson,Edward D. English Pdf

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early modern periods. Together, the essays provide a unique comparative perspective on compelling problems of ethnoreligious relations. Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval and Early Modern Spain considers how certain social and political conditions fostered fruitful cultural interchange, while others promoted mutual hostility and aversion. The volume examines the factors that enabled one religious minority to maintain its cultural integrity and identity more effectively than another in the same sociopolitical setting. This volume provides an enriched understanding of how Christians, Muslims, and Jews encountered ideological antagonism and negotiated the theological and social boundaries that separated them.

Author : Richard Hitchcock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317093725

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Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain by Richard Hitchcock Pdf

The setting of this volume is the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, where Christianity and Islam co-existed side by side as the official religions of Muslim al-Andalus on the one hand, and the Christian kingdoms in the north of the peninsula on the other. Its purpose is to examine the meaning of the word 'Mozarab' and the history and nature of the people called by that name; it represents a synthesis of the author's many years of research and publication in this field. Richard Hitchcock first sets out to explain what being a non-Muslim meant in al-Andalus, both in the higher echelons of society and at a humbler level. The terms used by Arab chroniclers, when examined carefully, suggest a lesser preoccupation with purely religious values than hitherto appreciated. Mozarabism in León and Toledo, two notably distinct phenomena, are then considered at length, and there are two chapters exploring the issues that arose, firstly when Mozarabs were relocated in twelfth-century Aragón, and secondly, in sixteenth-century Toledo, when they were striving to retain their identity.

Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004624245

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Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain by Norman Roth Pdf

Jews settled in medieval Spain at least by the third century, and under the Christian Visigoths (sixth to eighth centuries) suffered increasing hostility and persecution, from which they were saved by the Muslim invasion (711). This book details the relations between Jews and the Visigoths, and then with the Muslims both in Muslim Spain proper (al-Andalus) and in later Christian Spain to the fifteenth century. It examines both the positive and negative aspects of those relations, drawing on a variety of sources many of which are here utilized for the first time. Political, socio-economic, scientific, cultural, literary and even sexual aspects of the history of the interaction between Jews and Visigoths, and Jews and Muslims, provide hopefully a new insight into a period of great importance in history.