...William David Phillips, Jr. Henry IV of Castile: 1425-1474 . By Miller Townsend . Philadelphia , 1972 . J. B. Lippincott Company . Map. Illustrations. Bibliography. Index . Pp. viii , 306 . Cloth. $8.95 . Copyright 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 For twenty crucial...

... Copyright 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 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 . ...

...J. B. Owens Vassberg has written an outstanding book which is essential reading for anyone interested in the imperial enterprise of the Spanish Hapsburgs. A vigorous agricultural sector in Castile was the basis of the empire, and the kingdom’s rural decadence in the late sixteenth century...

... 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...

...Sara T. Nalle Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile . By Ruiz Teofilo F. . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1994 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth . $46.95 . Copyright 1995 by Duke University Press 1995...

...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 The discussion...

... 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...

...José A. Fernandez Santamaría Enrique IV (1454–1574), who ruled Castile during one of her darkest moments, has always been one of the least loved of Spanish monarchs. Recently, however, attempts have been made to view him in a more objective light than in the past. The latest, most complete...

...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...

.... 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...

...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...

...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 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...

... a collection of 1035 documents in Latin. They also contain useful indices of documents, personal names and places, as well as an extensive bibliography. The maps throughout the first volume are exceedingly useful. The Spanish empire of Alfonso VII disintegrated into four kingdoms : Castile, León, Navarre...