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A history of Spain from the earliest times to the death of Ferdinand the Catholic / by Ulick Ralph Burke.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1895 Burke
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burke, Ulick Ralph, 1845-1895.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spain--History.
- Spain.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : 6 maps. ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Longmans, Green, and Co., [1894]-1895.
- Contents:
- [Vol. I] Introduction. The Celtiberians. Pre-historic times
- Saguntum
- Numantia. Hispania Romana. The Barbarians. Theodosius the Great
- The coming of the Visigoths
- Christianity. The kingdom of Toulouse. Leovgild. The great Metropolitans. Reccared
- Isidore of Seville
- Church and state. Wamba
- The Spanish Church
- The last of the Goths. The Jews
- Roderic
- The failure of the Visigoths. The Moslem conqueset. Taric
- The Mozarabs
- Abdur Rahman
- The kingdom of the Asturias. Covadonga
- Roncesvalles
- Islam. The Mezquita
- The Fakihs
- Ziriab
- Santiago. Alfonso the Chaste
- Catalonia
- Compostella
- The Caliphate of Cordova. Abdur Rahman an Nasir
- The city of Cordova
- The kingdom of Leon. The Cid. Averroes. The Almoravides
- The Almohades
- The learning of Cordova
- The rise of Aragon. The inheritance of Ramiro
- Dominic. Imperium Romantum. The Gothic missal
- The emperors
- Berengaria
- The great military orders. Calatrava
- Santiago
- Alcantara
- The grand masters
- James the first of Aragon. Catalonia and Aragon
- James the Conqueror
- The troubadours
- Alfonso X of Castile. El Sabio
- The Alfonsine tables
- Language and literature of Castile
- The ballads
- The Siete Partidas
- The universities. Education at Cordova
- The Maestrescuelas
- Foreign policy of Aragon. Peter the Great
- Alfonso III
- James II
- Raymond Lull
- Domestic discord in Castile. The Bravos
- The Hermandad
- Alfonso XI
- Literature
- Peter the Cruel. A royal assassin
- Edward the Black Prince
- Aragon in Spain. Castile beyond the sea.The Lancastrian claims to Castile
- The embassy to Tamerlane
- The Canary Islands
- Pedro Lopez de Ayala
- Constitutional history. Alfonso of Aragon and Naples. John II of Castile. The good regent Ferdinand
- Alvaro de Luna
- Tables. Appendices.
- [Vol. II] The bull fight. Architecture. Christian architecture
- Moslem architecture
- Literature. Navarre. Union. Henry the Impotent
- Ferdinand of Aragon
- La Beltraneja
- The Queen of Castile
- Music. The reforms of Isabella. Religious toleration. The inquisition. Granada. Moslem civilization
- The rise of Granada
- Boabdil
- Gonsalvo de Cordova
- Columbus. The Genoese adventurer
- The admiral of the ocean
- The banishment of the Jews. Negotiations with England and France. The Spaniards in Italy. Alexander VI
- Charles VIII in Italy
- Gonsalvo de Cordova at Naples
- Royal marriages. Schemes of empire
- Negotiations in England
- The rise of Ximenez. Columbus. The Moriscos. The great captain. The revival of letters in Spain. Alcala. The university
- The complutensian polyglot
- Death of Isabella. The last voyage of Columbus. Ferdinand triumphant. La Beltraneja and la Loca
- Villafafila
- Philip of Castile. Juana la Loca. Las cuentas del gran capitan
- Joanna at Tordesillas
- Monetary and commercial systems. Coinage
- Commercial treaties
- Retirement of Ximenez. A kingdom of Italy. The last days of Ferdinand. Annexation of Navarre
- Henry VIII of England
- Cæsar. Supplementary
- Carolus Rex Romanorum
- The Germania of Valencia
- The Comuneros of Castile
- Appendices. Maps.
- Notes:
- At end of v. 2: Acabóse de imprimir el dia 31 de diciembre, 1894 laus Deo.
- Contains tables: [Vol. I] Visigothic kings. Kings of the Asturias and Leon. The houses of Aragon and Barcelona. Kings of Castile and of Leon, 1027-1230. Royal houses of Spain and England. Kings of Castile and Aragon. Amirs and Caliphs of Cordova. Moslem kings of Granada.
- Contains appendices: [Vol. I] The Basques. On customary concubinage or Barraganeria. The laws of the Visigoths. Etymology of Andalusia. Saint George. The Alfonsos of Castile and Leon. [Vol. II] Judicial torture. Cluny. Early Spanish musical instruments. Spanish-Arab musical instruments of the ninth and tenth centuries -- Musical instruments in use in Christian Spain in the thirteenth century, from the illuminated MS of the Cantigas of Alfonso X, circa 1275 -- List of musical instruments in common or popular use in Spain, according to Juan Ruiz, archpriest of Hita, in the middle of the fourteenth century.
- Contains maps: [Vol. II] Spain, AD 325. Spain, AD 570. Spain, AD 900. Spain, AD 1135. Spain, AD 1360-1492. Navarre, AD 1500.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- Athenaeum copy: Stamped on title page: "Received Apr 8 1895."
- OCLC:
- 2474527
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