A History of Medieval Spain: Memory and Power in the New Europe (Revised) (Cornell Paperbacks)

This book is a comprehensive narrative history based on an impressively wide reading in the sources and secondary literature.It should prove useful to teachers, students, and general readers in European history....Soundly traditional in its organization, it gives primacy to political events without neglecting institutional, social, and cultural matters.-American Historical Review Illustrations, genealogical charts, maps, and an extensive bibliography round out a book that will be welcomed by scholars and students of Spanish and Portuguese history and literature, as well as by medievalists, as the fullest account to date of Spanish history in the Middle Ages. Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey.Likely to become the standard work in English, the book treats the entire Iberian Peninsula and all the people who inhabited it, from the coming of the Visigoths in the fifth century to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella.Integrat