Spain, 1157-1300: A Partible Inheritance

Chronology.

List of Abbreviations.

Tree showing some of those mentioned in these pages.

Map of Spain in the thirteenth century.

1 1157-1179.

Past and Present.

After the Emperor.

Two Royal Minorities.

2 The Age of Las Navas.

Life, Law and Memory.

Three Battles.

Implications of the Vernacular.

Castile Victorious.

3 1214-1248.

Doña Berenguela and Son.

'The Gate is Open and the Way Is Clear'.

Towards Valencia.

Conquest and Colonization.

Toledo and Seville.

After Valencia.

The Mediterranean Dimension.

4 Some Permanent Features.

Jews.

Moors.

Hunger, Kings and Capitals.

5 1252-1259.

Alfonso X: Promising Beginnings.

A Command Economy.

The Law.

Implications of Empire.

6 1259-1274.

Toledo and Translations.

International Complications.

The Mudéjar Rising.

The Alfonsine Histories.

7 1275-1284.

A Reign in Ruins.

France and Aragón.

1282.

Aragón Alone.

The Learned King.

8 The Changed Balance.

Castile after 1284.

A Question of Alliances.

'Neither Truth nor Faith'.

Epilogue.

Bibliography.

Glossary.

Index.