Preface ix
Chronology xii
List of Abbreviations xv
Tree showing some of those mentioned in these pages xvii
Map of Spain in the thirteenth century xviii
1 1157–79 Past and Present 1
After the Emperor 7
Two Royal Minorities 24
2 The Age of Las Navas Life, Law and Memory 36
Three Battles 40
Implications of the Vernacular 46
Castile Victorious 53
3 1214–48
Doña Berenguela and Son 57
‘The Gate is Open and the Way is Clear’ 60
Towards Valencia 62
Conquest and Colonization 69
Toledo and Seville 75
After Valencia 80
The Mediterranean Dimension 83
4 Some Permanent Features Jews 87
Moors 95
Hunger, Kings and Capitals 100
5 1252–9 Alfonso X: Promising Beginnings 104
A Command Economy 114
The Law 121
Implications of Empire 129
6 1259–74
Toledo and Translations 133
International Complications 145
The Mudéjar Rising 149
The Alfonsine Histories 162
7 1275–84
A Reign in Ruins 169
France and Aragón 175
1282 185
Aragón Alone 199
The Learned King 204
8 The Changed Balance Castile after 1284 210
A Question of Alliances 215
‘Neither Truth nor Faith’ 229
Epilogue 233
Bibliography 235
Glossary 268
Index 270
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.
"This is a masterly revisiting of the period, every clause ofLinehan's sentences embodying not only that eloquence of rhetoricalstyle he so admired in the work of another Fellow of St. John's,Prof. John Cook (see the obituary by Lineham in The Independent, 15September 2007), but a freshness and vitality of vision that findtheir fullest expression in his portrait of King Alfonso el Sabio."(Speculuma Medieval Studies, April 2011)
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