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Drawing from both Christian and Islamic sources, Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain demonstrates that the clash of arms between Christians and M...
Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O'Callaghan
This collection of essays provides new insight based on archival research into the medieval formation of human institutions of government, hospitals a...
Medieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey. Likely to become the standard work in English,...
A Poetic Biography
In the "Cantigas de Santa Maria," a collection of about four hundred poems written in Galician, Alfonso X, el Sabio, king of Castile-Leon, has left us...
Castile and the Conquest of Granada
By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim ru...
The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased...
Like the English parliament, the French Estates, and the German imperial diet, the cortes of medieval Castile and Leon is an example of development of...
Essays Presented to J.F. O'Callaghan
The Emergence of León-Castile brings together the current research of colleagues, students and friends of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, a pioneer in the stu...
Law and Justice in Thirteenth-Century Castile
In this magisterial work, Joseph O'Callaghan offers a detailed account of the establishment of Alfonso X's legal code, the Libro de las leyes or Siete...
The studies included in this volume, written over a period of nearly thirty years, deal principally with two major themes, namely, the reign of Alfons...
How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders
How does one become a bishop in the Catholic Church? Is He Worthy? provides an historical overview from the earliest times when bishops were elected b...
The O Callaghan Family of County Cork, A History
This extremely well-researched history of a County Cork sept traces its origins from Cellachan of Cashel, the tenth-century king of Munster, down to m...