The Emergence of León-Castile, c. 1065-1500
Subtitle: Essays Presented to J.F. O'Callaghan
By: Edited by James J. Todesca, Armstrong State University, USA
Contributors: O'Callaghan, Joseph F.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781409420354; 9781409420361; 9781472400444
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Law; Kings and rulers
Description: "The Emergence of León-Castile brings together the current research of colleagues, students and friends of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, a pioneer in the study of the kingdom of León-Castile. The essays focus on the politics, law and economy of León-Castile from its first great leap forward in the eleventh century to the civil strife of the fifteenth. No other volume in English allows the reader to trace the institutional development of the kingdom over several centuries. The collection underlines the fact that León-Castile was not a backwater but a sophisticated state that had an important influence on the development of medieval and renaissance Europe"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medieval Iberian studies in the United States / Bernard F. Reilly; title: The Crown renewed : the administration of coinage in León-Castile, c.1085-1200 / James J. Todesca; title: Towns on the edge : twelfth-century municipal war policy in León-Castile and France / James F. Powers; title: Foreigners and foes in the Leonese succession crisis of 1230 / Janna Bianchini; title: Alfonso X and his brothers : a story of not very fraternal relations / Manuel González Jiménez; title: The Siete Partidas and the law of charity in thirteenth-century Castile / James William Brodman; title: Towards a symbolic history of Alfonso XI of Castile : power, ceremony and triumph / Teofilo F. Ruiz; title: The Castilian Navy in the reign of Alfonso XI / Nicolás Agrait; title: Shifting alliances : the unstable bond between Castile and Aragon in the late-fourteenth century / Donald J. Kagay; title: Trastámara kings, queens, and the gender dynamics of monarchy / Theresa Earenfight; title: Don Alvaro de Luna and the indictment against royal favoritism in late medieval Castile / L.J. Andrew Villalon.