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... Copy of a Letter to the King of Portugal Sent to the King of Castile Concerning the Voyage and Success of India . Translated by Pacifici Sergio J. . Minneapolis , 1955 . The University of Minnesota Press . Pp. 24 . $5.00 . Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 ...

... evidence. His chapters explore individual mobility in Golden Age Castile by peeking into the world of itinerants— merchants, carters, muleteers, and shepherds. He also looks at regional and long-distance marketing of specialized village artisanal production arising from local control of limited forest...

...J. B. Owens Land and Society in Golden Age Castile . By Vassberg David E. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1984 . Glossary. Tables. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxii , 263 . Cloth. $47.50 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Vassberg has...

.... The ineffective or corrupt corregidor became a principal target of the Comunero rebels of 1520-1521. This rebellion reminded the urban elite that they depended on a stable royal government and showed Emperor Charles V how important an effective corps of corregidors was to his exercise of power in Castile...

...Teófilo F. Ruiz Emperor of Culture. Alfonso X the Learned of Castile and His Thirteenth-Century Renaissance . Edited by Burns Robert I. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1990 . xii , 272 pp. Copyright 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 The thirteen...

...Sara T. Nalle Many sections of this book deserve praise. Ruiz’ patient reconstruction of the Castilian market for land, from sources scattered all over northern Castile, is perhaps this book’s most important methodological contribution. Particularly enjoyable are his descriptions...

... traders of Europe, as “that savage race” (p. 95). Two of the most significant developments in fifteenth-century Castile were the increasing economic stranglehold of the nobility and growth of an intense anti-Semitism leading to the Inquisition. On the first point Miller is totally silent; far from...

...Michael D. Gordon The Comuneros of Castile: The Forging of a Revolution, 1475-1521 . By Haliczer Stephen . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1981 . Map. Notes. Glossary. Index . Pp. ix , 305 . Cloth. Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 In recent years...

... centuries provides scholars with a good detailed study, and in the process goes a long way in explaining the litigiousness chronicled in so many Spanish plays and in Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote . Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Lawsuits and Litigants in Castile, 1500–1700...

...Terence Grieder A History of Spanish Painting . Vol. XIII: The Schools of Aragón and Navarre in the Early Renaissance . Vol. XIV: The Later Renaissance in Castile . By Post Chandler Rathfon . Edited by Wethey Harold E. . Cambridge , 1966 . Harvard University Press . Harvard...

...William Whatley Pierson, Jr. Isabel of Castile and the Making of the Spanish Nation, 1451-1504 . By Plunkett Ierne L. . [ Heroes of the Nations series .] ( New York and London : G. P. Putnam’s Sons . 1919 . Pp. xi , 432 . Illustrated .) Copyright 1921 by Duke University Press...

...José A. Fernandez Santamaría Enrique IV and the Crisis of Fifteenth-Century Castile, 1425-1480 . By Phillips William D. Jr . Cambridge , 1978 . The Mediaeval Academy of America . Tables. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. x , 137 . Cloth. $11.00 . Paper. $5.00 . Copyright 1979...

...William R. Summerhill Abstract In “Bargaining for Absolutism,” Alejandra Irigoin and Regina Grafe argue three points of considerable interest to historians: political absolutism in Castile did not extend to fiscal matters; fiscal relations within Spain and its empire were characterized...

.... Bibliography. Index . xvii , 371 pp. Cloth , $75.00 . Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 In 1445, John II of Castile awarded a sizeable estate southwest of Toledo to Gutierre de Sotomayor, a favored noble supporter. The land and its jurisdiction, however, were not taken from royal lands...

... with the object of noting and refuting errors. He has divided the history of Castile during the period into two parts, the internal political and religious history (pages 71-660) and foreign relations (pages 663-1072). The internal history of Castile is marked by the turbulent activity of the Laras...