360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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The studies included in this selection - the opening two being published for the first time - are concerned with various aspects of the history of Christian Spain between the 6th century and the 14th. A recurrent theme is that of the invention of the past: of the manner in which, for reasons which have seemed good to them, at different times and places, from Toledo in the 1240s to Cambridge in... Read more
Contents: History in a changing world: the case of medieval Spain; Past and present: the posthumous history of the Third Council of Toledo; Ecclesiastics and the Cortes of Castile and León; The Toledo forgeries c.1150-c.1300; Santo Martino and the context of sanctity in 13th-century León; Documento español sobre la Quinta Cruzada; Proctors representing Spanish interests at the papal court, 1216-1303; Spanish litigants and their agents at the 13th-century papal curia; Two unsealed papal originals in Spanish archives; The accession of Alfonso X (1252) and the origins of the War of the Spanish Succession; The Church, the economy and the Reconquista in early 14th-century Castile; The beginnings of S. Maria de Guadalupe and the direction of 14th-century Castile; A 14th-century history of Anglo-Scottish relations in a Spanish manuscript; The making of the Cambridge Medieval History; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
Biography
Peter Linehan
'This collection...serves as a useful introduction to the Castilian Church of the High Middle Ages as well as to some major historiographical problems in contemporary Spanish medieval studies. For these reasons it can be highly recommended.' The Catholic Historical Review
