Type: JvH

History and the Historians of Medieval Spain

Spanish Kingdoms, The 1250-1516 (Volume II)

Spanish Kingdoms, The 1250-1516 (Volume I)

Spain in the Middle Ages

Dr MacKay brings clarity to the medieval history of Spain by concentrating on two themes which provide the key to much of Spanish historical devlopment:”the frontier” from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; and “the preparation for Empire”during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Two pilgrim itineraries of the later Middle Ages

The present v9olume contains an edition of two pilgrim itineraries from England to major shrines on the continent of Europe. The occasion for this publication is the Holy Year in Santiago de Compostela.

Romanesque sculpture of the pilgrimage roads

Romanesque sculpture of the pilgrimage roads

First printed 1929

Romanesque sculpture of the pilgrimage roads

First published 1923

Petrus Alfonsi and his medieval readers

In the twelfth century a wave of Arabic texst swept north across the Pyrenees, changing the intellectual map of Latin Europe and making possible – in the thirteenth century – the rise of the University of Paris and the birth of Scholasticism. It was te translators who made this possible, who made these texts over […]

Songs of Holy Mary of Alfonso X, The Wise

Few truly masterly works in literature, music, and graphic arts have been as sadly neglectes as the thirteenth-century “Cantigas de Santa Maria”of king Alfonso X “El Sabio” (1221-1284). This collection of 420 poems and songs recounting miracles performed by the Virgin Mary was written not in Castillian but in Galician-Portuguese, an important spoken and literary […]