History of Spain

A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late Middle Ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes of the Catholic Monarchs. • Illuminates Spain's history from the early fourteenth century to the union of the Crowns of Castile and Aragon in 1474 • Examines the challenges and reforms of the social, economic, political, and cultural structures of the country • Looks at the early transformations that readied Spain for the future opportunities and challenges of the early modern Age of Discovery • Includes a helpful bibliography to direct the reader toward further study

“CALIPHS AND KINGS:  SPAIN, 796-1031” The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. “Caliphs and Kings” offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods. The nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed by many as an era of unprecedented harmony and mutual tolerance between the three great religious faiths in the Iberian Peninsula—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—the like of which has never been seen since. And yet, as this book demonstrates, historical reality defies the myth. Though the middle of the tenth century saw a flowering of artistic culture and sophistication in the Umayyad court and in the city of Córdoba, this period was all too short lived and localized. Eventually, twenty years of civil war caused the implosion of the Umayyad regime. It is through the forces that divided—not united—the disparate elements in Spanish society that we may best glean its nature and its lessons. Caliphs and Kings is devoted to better understanding those circumstances, as historian Roger Collins takes a fresh look at certainties, both old and new, to strip ninth-and tenth-century Spain of its mythic narrative, revealing the more complex truth beneath.

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