Sadržaj:
  • 1. Ways of Looking Back
  • Philip II and Hermenegild
  • III Toledo and the historians
  • Stubbs and Sanchez-Albornoz
  • Reconquest or 'Reconquest'?
  • the Spanish Middle Ages since 1975
  • terms of reference
  • 2. The Catholic Century
  • III Toledo and its legacy
  • Leovigild and Reccared
  • Arians and Catholics
  • the Visigothic councils
  • the seventh-century episcopate
  • IV Toledo c. 75
  • V and VI Toledo
  • Church and government
  • Isidore of Seville and Braulio of Zaragoza
  • 3. 711
  • King Wamba and XII Toledo
  • the rise of Toledo
  • Julian of Toledo
  • the papacy and the Jews
  • the silent Church
  • 711
  • from the Mozarabic Chronicle to the Chronicle of Alfonso III
  • the rise of Oviedo
  • Alfonso II, Mozarabs, and Adoptionists
  • 4. The Invention of the Reconquest
  • The Chronicle of Alfonso III
  • Covadonga
  • cleansing the past
  • Asturias in the eighth century
  • resettlement
  • Oviedo and Santiago
  • bishops and kings in the ninth century
  • Sampiro and Pelayo of Oviedo: episcopal historians and the question of royal anointing
  • 5. Oviedo to Leon
  • The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon
  • the anointing of Alfonso II: fact or fiction?
  • the Leon Antiphonary
  • evidence from the Leonese chancery
  • Catalans in the kingdom of Leon
  • Abbot Oliba and royal incest
  • Sancho III
  • 6. Spain and the Wider World
  • Leon and Castile in the eleventh century
  • the Palencia forgeries
  • kings, churchmen, and reformers
  • the Council of Coyanza
  • clerical morality and modern nationalism
  • ecclesiastical reform and Spanish feudalism since 1975
  • Gregory VII and Alfonso VI
  • the uses of history
  • 7. 1085-1135
  • The reconquest of Toledo 1085
  • the ideology of reconquista
  • the role of Toledo
  • the implications of ecclesiastical primacy
  • the Mozarabs of Toledo: mosque and cathedral
  • D. Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada and the 1090s
  • Mozarabs and Frenchmen
  • feudalism
  • the imperial coronation of Alfonso VII 1135: fact and fiction
  • F. de Berganza and the 'Ceremonial de Cardena'
  • 8. Aspects of the Twelfth Century, I
  • 1147
  • bishops and history in the twelfth century
  • the fate of reform
  • royal marriages: two 'models'
  • Innocent III and the argument from expediency
  • monks, churches, and the frontier
  • 9. Aspects of the Twelfth Century, II
  • Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula
  • Alfonso VII and Portugal
  • Romanist Symptoms
  • 1147: the apostolic Eugenius
  • the minority of Alfonso VIII
  • Mozarabs again
  • 1166: the Synod of Segovia
  • 1179
  • from maiestas to Christianitas
  • Las Navas de Tolosa: a Castilian victory
  • strenuitas
  • D. Rodrigo's ideal king
  • Pere de Cardona, foreigners, and Palencia
  • the cost of Holy War
  • 10. History and the Historians, II
  • Toledo after 1182
  • D. Rodrigo his De rebus Hispanie
  • D. Rodrigo and Las Navas de Tolosa
  • the 'Poem of the Cid'
  • D. Rodrigo in 1215
  • Toledo vs. Braga
  • 'Zucketa'
  • the 'Ordinatio ecclesie Valentine'
  • 11. History and the Historians, II
  • The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispanie
  • the problem of the seventh century
  • Lucas of Tuy and Isidore of Seville
  • 'Notule de primatu'
  • 'Liber de miraculis Sancti Isidori'
  • law and history
  • history and the historians
  • the unspeakable Theodisclus
  • the problem of the 640s
  • 'Cum longe lateque'
  • 12. History and the Historians, III
  • D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas
  • D. Rodrigo and the anointing of Wamba
  • primatial issues
  • king-making in thirteenth-century Spain
  • 'regnum et sacerdocium' according to D. Rodrigo
  • 1230 and the eclipse of Toledo
  • king-making since 711: Oviedo and Leon
  • the 1135 coronation again
  • the history of these years in retrospect
  • 13. The Thirteenth Century, I: Assurance
  • The later thirteenth century
  • the tasks of reconquest
  • Alfonso X and official history
  • the invention of the past
  • 1252: the accession of Alfonso X
  • anointing and 'invisible anointing': the Alfonsine evidence
  • Sancho IV and the crown
  • Gonzalo Perez Gudiel
  • Seville and Toledo
  • Wamba comes to Toledo
  • the new-model Wamba
  • 14. The Thirteenth Century, II: Uncertainty
  • Yet again the coronation of 1135: the Estoria de Espana
  • the apotheosis of Toledo
  • Sancho IV and Archbishop Gonzalo Perez
  • David and Solomon in the General estoria
  • 'felix Sancius': the sacral reputation of Sancho IV
  • 15. Difficult Years
  • Toledo after 1295
  • social engineering on the frontier
  • popular religion
  • the king's bishops
  • friars
  • 1295: the Cortes of Valladolid
  • the Cortes and the historians
  • Libro del Cavallero Zifar
  • the minority of Fernando IV
  • council and Cortes
  • the case for ecclesiastical co-operation ecclesiastical co-operation thwarted
  • libertas ecclesiastica
  • 16. The Fourteenth Century, I: A New Order?
  • Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum
  • 1332: the coronation of Alfonso XI
  • the new chivalry
  • the mechanical Santiago
  • the protest of Alvarus Pelagius
  • 17. The Fourteenth Century, II: The New Deal?
  • The Chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author
  • its picture of Alfonso XI
  • the pope's foot
  • letrados
  • abadengo and realengo
  • Guadalupe
  • Alfonso XI enters Seville
  • 1329, the Cortes of Madrid
  • xenophobia
  • sovereignty
  • Cordoba MS 40
  • Toledo again
  • the infante Juan de Aragon and D. Juan Manuel
  • 18. Epilogue.