Spain, 1157-1300

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Spain, 1157-1300 makes use of a vast body of primary and secondary source material to provide a balanced overview of a crucial period of Spanish as well as of European history. * Examines the most significant phase of Spanish mainland development * Considers the profound intellectual consequences of Christian advances into Islamic Spain * Explores the varying fortunes of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, and focuses on the reign of the learned Alfonso X of Castile * Utilizes the vast body of primary and secondary source material published over the past 30 years

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Peter Linehan

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"This is a masterly revisiting of the period, every clause ofLinehan's sentences embodying not only that eloquence of rhetoricalstyle he so admired in the work of another Fellow of St. John's,Prof. John Cook (see the obituary by Lineham in The Independent, 15September 2007), but a freshness and vitality of vision that findtheir fullest expression in his portrait of King Alfonso el Sabio."(Speculuma Medieval Studies, April 2011) "Both unified Spain and the multiple Spains of the reconquest arehere superbly narrated and explained by one of the foremostspecialists of Medieval Spain." -Jacques Le Goff, Ecoles Des Hautes Etudes en SciencesSociales
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