Spain's Centuries of Crisis

Teofilo F. Ruiz is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His publications include Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile (1994) and Spanish Society 1400-1600 (2002) and From Heaven to Earth. The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150-1350 (2004).

• Preface and Acknowledgments viiiMap 1: Spain in the Late Fifteenth Century xiMap 2: The Crown of Aragon and the Western Mediterraneanin the Late Middle Ages xii1 At the Dawn of a New Century: The Spains around 1300 12 Medieval Spain in the Late Middle Ages: Society and Economy 283 The Answers of Politics: Spain, 1300–1350 514 Toward Trastámara Spain, 1350–1412 725 Spain in the Fifteenth Century: Toward the Rule of the Catholic Monarchs, 1412–1469 866 The Sinews of Power: Administration, Politics, and Display 1107 Muslims, Jews, and Christians in a Century of Crisis 1398 Culture and Society in an Age of Crisis 1649 Epilogue 196Notes 202Bibliographical Essay 217Index 228