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Enemies in the Plaza
Toward the end of the fifteenth century, Spanish Christians near the border of Castile and Muslim-ruled Granada held complex views about religious tolerance. People living in frontier cities bore much of the cost of war against Granada and faced the greatest risk of retaliation, but had to reconcile an ideology of holy war with the genuine admiration many felt for individual members of other religious groups. After a century of near-continuous truces, a series of political transformations in Castile—including those brought about by the civil wars of Enrique IV's reign, the final war with Granada, and Fernando and Isabel's efforts to reestablish royal authority—incited a broad reaction ag...
Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia
In Conflict in Fourteenth-Century Iberia Donald Kagay and Andrew Villalon explore the background, administrative, diplomatic, economic, and military results, and the aftermath of the War of the Two Pedros between Castile and the Crown of Aragon (1356-1366) and the Castilian Civil War (1366-1369).
Rural Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to consider the meaning of rural space, both in light of ecocritical readings and social-historical approaches. While previous scholars examined the figure of the peasant in the premodern world, the current volume combines a large number of specialized studies that investigate how the natural environment and the appearance of members of the rural population interacted with the world of the court and of the city. The experience in rural space was important already for writers and artists in the premodern era, as the large variety of scholarly...
The Village and the Outside World in Golden Age Castile
This 1996 book, based upon a vast range of documentary and secondary sources, shatters the disproven but persistent myth of the closed immobile village in the early modern period. It demonstrates that even in traditionalist Castile, pre-industrial village society was highly dynamic, with continuous inter-village, inter-regional, and rural-urban migration. The book is rich in human detail, with many vignettes of everyday life. Professor Vassberg examines such topics as fairs and markets, the transportation infrastructure, rural artisans and craftsmen, relations with the state, and life-cycle service. The approach is interdisciplinary, and pays special attention to how rural families dealt with economic and social problems. The rural Castile that emerges is a complex society that defies easy generalizations, but one which is unquestionably part of the general European reality.
The Spanish Origin of the Checkers and Modern Chess Game. Volume III.
Since 1987 we have defended in articles that the Spanish queen Isabella I of Castile (Isabel la Catolica) was the new chess queen (dama) on the chessboard. Other publications were in 1990, 1994, 1997, and 2004. And of course, Marilyn Yalom studied our book during her visit to the National Library in The Hague (Holland) before she wrote Birth of the Chess Queen in 2004. In her book one cannot see that in 1987, 1990, and 1994 we already published material about Isabel la Catolica (Isabel I of Castile) being the new powerful dama or chess queen on the chessboard. In other words we can state here that we have been studying Spanish history and its chess literature for over 30 years. Since 2003 we have also known the development of the new bishop in chess."
2001
Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.
De Negra a Blanca. Tomo I.
Siempre me ha fascinado la historia de los pueblos y cuando llegué por la primera vez a Blanca, en 1969, lógicamente quise saber aspectos de su historia. Sin embargo, hubo una leyenda que despertó forzosamente mi curiosidad sobre este pueblo: su nombre femenino Blanca. Me contaron que se debía a una reina, llamada Blanca, que vivía hace muchos siglos en el castillo. Sé que las leyendas siempre son historias deformadas, pero el nombre de Blanca perfectamente pudo ser de una reina y así hice mi investigación. Además, se sabe que la última vez que el nombre de Negra entra en la historia de esta región, es en el año 1315; y la primera vez que consta el nombre de Blanca, es en el año 1382. Por tanto, se tiene una laguna y misterio de 67 años, donde no se menciona, en documento alguno, el nombre de Negra o Blanca. Por otro lado, se sabe que la villa de Blanca antiguamente pertenecía a la Orden de Santiago y por lógica el cambio del nombre debería corresponder a dicha Orden.
El reino de Murcia en el tiempo del rey Don Pedro I el Cruel (1350-1369)
El Archivo Municipal de Murcia es una verdadera joya, donde se tienen documentos desde el siglo XIII hasta hoy. Por eso es tan sospechoso que en esta rica documentación, con respecto al reinado de Pedro I, falte el Cartulario Real entre los años 1355 y 1367, y también los Libros de Actas Capitulares del reinado, a excepción del correspondiente a 1364-1365. Por lo tanto, una de las épocas más difíciles para la historia de Murcia es tal vez aquella, cuando don Pedro I estuvo al poder en Castilla. Murcia siempre fue fiel a su rey y le defendió constantemente durante su reinado. Lógicamente escritores como Bellot, Zurita, Cáscales y muchos otros no estaban al tanto de la correspondencia secreta del Papa Inocencio VI (1352-1362) con don Fadrique, Maestre de la Orden de Santiago. Probablemente ahora, con estas nuevas investigaciones se podrán ver con otros ojos las actuaciones del rey castellano. Por tanto, con esta obra pretendo llenar un vacío en los libros de historia en Murcia.
The Last Crusade in the West
By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest by civil war and conflicts with neighboring Christian kings. Mindful, however, of their traditional goal of recovering lands formerly ruled by the Visigoths, whose heirs they claimed to be, the Castilian monarchs continued intermittently to assault Granada until the late fifteenth century. Matters changed thereafter, when Fernando and Isabel launched a decade-long effort to subjugate Granada. Uti...
De Negra a Blanca. Tomo II.
Siempre me ha fascinado la historia de los pueblos y cuando llegué por la primera vez a Blanca, en 1969, lógicamente quise saber aspectos de su historia. Sin embargo, hubo una leyenda que despertó forzosamente mi curiosidad sobre este pueblo: su nombre femenino Blanca. Me contaron que se debía a una reina, llamada Blanca, que vivía hace muchos siglos en el castillo. Sé que las leyendas siempre son historias deformadas, pero el nombre de Blanca perfectamente pudo ser de una reina y así hice mi investigación. Además, se sabe que la última vez que el nombre de Negra entra en la historia de esta región, es en el año 1315; y la primera vez que consta el nombre de Blanca, es en el año 1382. Por tanto, se tiene una laguna y misterio de 67 años, donde no se menciona, en documento alguno, el nombre de Negra o Blanca. Por otro lado, se sabe que la villa de Blanca antiguamente pertenecía a la Orden de Santiago y por lógica el cambio del nombre debería corresponder a dicha Orden.
