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The Lara Family
For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Proteges of the monarchy at the time of El Cid, their influence reached extraordinary heights during the struggle against the Moors. Hand-in-glove with successive kings, they gathered an impressive array of military and political positions across the Iberian Peninsula. But cooperation gave way to confrontation, as the family was pitted against the crown in a series of civil wars. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family. The Laras' militant quest for territorial strength and the conflict with the monarchy led toward a fatal end, but anticipated a form of aristocratic power that long outlived the family. The noble elite would come to dominate Spanish society in the coming centuries, and the Lara family provides important lessons for students of the history of nobility, monarchy, and power in the medieval and early modern world.
The Kingdom of León-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157
The reign of Alfonso VII occupied more than a quarter century during which the political landscape of medieval Spain was altered significantly. It was marked by the enhancement of royal administration, an increased papal intervention in the affairs of the peninsular church, and the development of the church's territorial structure. With the publication of The Kingdom of Leon-Castilla Under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157, Bernard Reilly completes a detailed, three-part history of the largest of the Christian states of the Iberian peninsula from the mid-eleventh through the mid-twelfth century. Like his earlier books on the reigns of Queen Urraca and King Alfonso VI, this will no doubt be an essential resource for all students of European and Spanish history and to anyone investigating the antecedents of Castile's eventual preeminence in Iberian affairs.
Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Bringing together distinguished scholars in honor of Professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, this volume presents original and innovative research on the critical and uneasy relationship between authority and spectacle in the period from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, focusing on Spain, the Mediterranean and Latin America. Cultural scholars such as Professor Ruiz and his colleagues have challenged the notion that authority is elided with high politics, an approach that tends to be monolithic and disregards the uneven application and experience of power by elite and non-elite groups in society by highlighting the significance of spectacle. Taking such forms as ceremonies, rituals, festivals, and ...
The Routledge Handbook of Public Taxation in Medieval Europe
Beginning in the twelfth century, taxation increasingly became an essential component of medieval society in most parts of Europe. The state-building process and relations between princes and their subject cities or between citizens and their rulers were deeply shaped by fiscal practices. Although medieval taxation has produced many publications over the past decades there remains no synthesis of this important subject. This volume provides a comprehensive overview on a European scale and suggests new paths of inquiry. It examines the fiscal systems and practices of medieval Europe, including essential themes such as medieval fiscal theory and the power to tax; royal and urban taxation; and ...
La articulación de los recursos en el funcionamiento de la biblioteca escolar
Estudio de las posibilidades del uso pedagógico de las bibliotecas de los centros educativos.
La construcción de la idea de la peste negra (1348-1350) como catástrofe demográfica en la historiografía española
La historiografía española acepta desde hace relativamente poco tiempo, y a menudo por influencia de la historiografía europea, que la epidemia de Peste Negra de 1348 afectó gravemente a toda la Península, pese a la escasez y parquedad de las fuentes existentes, sobre todo en la Corona de Castilla. La aceptación de muy graves pérdidas de población como consecuencia de la epidemia choca, además, con la falta de coherencia entre las cifras que se difunden y la previsible evolución de una población de régimen antiguo, en las condiciones establecidas por la Demografía Histórica, con la gravedad y persistencia de los conflictos bélicos coetáneos, con la revolución fiscal que incrementa muy considerablemente los ingresos de las monarquías hispánicas y con los datos que la investigación sobre la evolución y la coyuntura económica se van conociendo. Al punto de que no es posible aceptar cifras globales de mortalidad tan elevadas como las que se han venido manejando.
Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media
Con presente trabajo el autor, académico de número de la Real de la Historia, ha elaborado un corpus genealógico que engloba a todas las grandes familias de la Edad Media peninsular. Se exponen así las distintas dinastías soberanas desde el siglo VIII hasta los Reyes Católicos. Además de la monarquía asturleonesa, de la navarra y de la aragonesa, se incluyen las de los condados catalanes y los primitivos condados de Castilla, Aragón y Ribagorza. El autor añade también la monarquía portuguesa, puesto que ésta es una derivación de la vieja dinastía castellano leonesa y, hasta el siglo XVII, estuvo íntimamente relacionada con los otros territorios peninsulares. Sin su presencia ...
