Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations for Citations Hispania PART I: THE VISIGOTH ERA, 415-711 1. The Visigothic Kingdom 2. Visigothic Government 3. Visigothic Society and Culture PART II. THE ASCENDANCY OF ISLAM, 711-1031 4. The Emirate of Cordoba 5. The Caliphate of Cordoba 6. Government, Society, and Culture in al-Andalus, 711-1031 7. Government, Society, and Culture in Christian Spain, 711-1035 PART 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, 1031-1212 PART 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, 1212-1369 PART V. THE STRUGGLE FOR PENINSULAR UNION, 1369-1479 21. The Early Trastamaras 22. The Hegemony of the Trastamaras 23. Government, 1369-1479 24. Society and the Economy, 1369-1479 25. Religion and Culture, 1369-1479 EPILOGUE The Catholic Kings and the Perfect Prince GENEALOGICAL CHARTS 1. Umayyad Emirs and Caliphs of Cordoba, 756-1031 2. Kings of Asturias-Leon to 1037 3. Rulers of Navarre, Aragon, and Barcelona to 1035 4. Rulers of Portugal, Leon, and Castile, 1035-1214 5. Rulers of Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, and Provence, 1035-1214 6. Kings of Navarre, 1194-1512 7. Kings of Leon-Castile, 1214-1504 8. Kings of Portugal, 1211-1521 9. Kings of Aragon, 1213-1516 10. The Nasrid Kings of Granada, 1232-1492 BIBLIOGRAPHY 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

About the Author

Joseph F. O'Callaghan is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University. He is a past president of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Academy of American Historians of Medieval Spain.

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"Joseph F. O'Callaghan has met a major, long-felt need with a clearly written, balanced, thorough survey that belongs in every history collection. His Spain is the entire peninsula-Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Portuguese, and Catalonian as well as Castilian. A substantial political narrative is followed by chapters on government, social and economic developments, and religion and culture. The author even-handedly represents the major sides in disputed issues, for his aim is to present the current state of scholarship in a simple narrative form. He has succeeded admirably."-Library Journal "Joseph O'Callaghan has now given us, for the first time, a solid and in-depth survey in English on the peninsular kingdoms, drawing together the myriad recent contributions, with the expertise of a recognized scholar in the field and the practicality of a long-time teacher of the topic... Competence, thorough inclusiveness, clear organization, and solidity are the qualifiers which best sum O'Callaghan's accomplishment."-The History Teacher "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."-American Historical Review "There is no existing substitute for this volume in English for the undergraduate or graduate student seeking a reliable orientation to medieval peninsular history."-Choice "O'Callaghan's A History of Medieval Spain is indispensable to the medievalist and to the Latin-Americanist alike. It is encyclopedic in nature, making it a valuable reference tool... On the whole, it represents considerable familiarity with the sources of information and learned condensation of that material. The chapters on society, economy, and culture give the reader a wider view than a skeletal political history of medieval Spain."- Southeastern Latin Americanist