A History of Medieval Spain

O'Callaghan, Joseph F.

ISBN 10: 0801408806 / ISBN 13: 9780801408809

Verlag: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 1975

Beschreibung

Detailed and comprehensive history of the Iberian peninsula in the Middle Ages. Copy is in very good condition. Minimal wear to the light green cloth boards. Interior is clean and unmarked with a solid, square binding. Dust jacket is good to very good. Some wear and creasing to the edges. Small hole of loss at the bottom front of the jacket near the spine. Wrapped in protective plastic jacket cover. Due to the size and weight of this book, additional shipping charges will be required.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004247

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A History of Medieval Spain
• Verlag: Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1975
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0801408806
• ISBN-13: 9780801408809
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

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

Illustrations, genealogical charts, maps, and an extensive bibliography round out a book that will be welcomed by scholars and students 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.

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.