World History
The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century - A full-text online book by Peter Linehan which was originally published in 1971 by Cambridge University Press.
I really like the idea of publishing out-of-print history related books on the Web. Why not give this information away to Web seekers if there is no longer any financial gain to keeping the book off line? It will in many cases bring the book to the attention of researchers and allow it to be used to advance our understanding of the past.
From the site:
It is high time that a history of the medieval Spanish Church was written, to replace Lafuente's Historia eclesiástica, which is now a century old and has aged badly. But this book is not meant to fill that gap. The materials for a work of synthesis simply do not yet exist. Hence the absence of, for example, any sustained discussion of the monastic Orders which had contributed so much to Spanish life since the eleventh century, or of the rise and fall of the Mendicants -- and particularly of the Dominicans in St Dominic's own country. Nor is it a history of the Reconquista, although I am not unaware of the part played by churchmen in that operation. Indeed, in view of the consequences for the Spanish Church of that unique movement, some such sub-title as The Infra-structure of the Reconquest might well have been appropriate.
For all this, however, it has proved impossible to exclude these topics and others from what was originally conceived as an investigation into the workings of the reform programme, pure and simple, in Spain -- the kingdoms of Leon, Castile and Aragon, that is -- in the period after the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. It soon became clear that the subject posed questions of an economic nature regarding the Church's place in society. Nor could such an investigation be limited to Spain, thus defined. The political and ecclesiastical boundaries did not coincide, and so I have not hesitated to wander across the frontier into Portugal, as occasion demanded and as churchmen did then, and to accept the old-fashioned geographical interpretation of Hispania which the statutes of the Spanish College at Bologna employed in the late fourteenth century.(1) It is to be hoped that the conclusions reached will now be subjected to criticism based on the documentary resources of particular dioceses. If they merely serve as a set of Aunt Sallies to be shied at, the book will at least have caused students to defend the old assumptions by engaging in the battle of the archives. And that activity had the blessing of Jaime Vicens [x] Vives -- the highest accolade any historian of Spain could desire.(2)
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World History
The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century
The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century - A full-text online book by Peter Linehan which was originally published in 1971 by Cambridge University Press.
I really like the idea of publishing out-of-print history related books on the Web. Why not give this information away to Web seekers if there is no longer any financial gain to keeping the book off line? It will in many cases bring the book to the attention of researchers and allow it to be used to advance our understanding of the past.
From the site:
It is high time that a history of the medieval Spanish Church was written, to replace Lafuente's Historia eclesiástica, which is now a century old and has aged badly. But this book is not meant to fill that gap. The materials for a work of synthesis simply do not yet exist. Hence the absence of, for example, any sustained discussion of the monastic Orders which had contributed so much to Spanish life since the eleventh century, or of the rise and fall of the Mendicants -- and particularly of the Dominicans in St Dominic's own country. Nor is it a history of the Reconquista, although I am not unaware of the part played by churchmen in that operation. Indeed, in view of the consequences for the Spanish Church of that unique movement, some such sub-title as The Infra-structure of the Reconquest might well have been appropriate.
For all this, however, it has proved impossible to exclude these topics and others from what was originally conceived as an investigation into the workings of the reform programme, pure and simple, in Spain -- the kingdoms of Leon, Castile and Aragon, that is -- in the period after the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. It soon became clear that the subject posed questions of an economic nature regarding the Church's place in society. Nor could such an investigation be limited to Spain, thus defined. The political and ecclesiastical boundaries did not coincide, and so I have not hesitated to wander across the frontier into Portugal, as occasion demanded and as churchmen did then, and to accept the old-fashioned geographical interpretation of Hispania which the statutes of the Spanish College at Bologna employed in the late fourteenth century.(1) It is to be hoped that the conclusions reached will now be subjected to criticism based on the documentary resources of particular dioceses. If they merely serve as a set of Aunt Sallies to be shied at, the book will at least have caused students to defend the old assumptions by engaging in the battle of the archives. And that activity had the blessing of Jaime Vicens [x] Vives -- the highest accolade any historian of Spain could desire.(2)
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Christopher Columbus’s first voyage to the Americas threatened to intensify the rivalry between the Catholic kingdoms of Spain (Castile) and Portugal into open warfare. Both kingdoms wanted to claim all newly discovered lands that were not Christian,...
- Spanish History At Spain Then And Now
While browsing online, I found a nice site for Spanish history. It is Overview of Spanish History at Spain Then and Now. It is easy to read and had a surprising amount of depth for a site clearly designed to generate revenue from Google Adsense...
- Opening Atlantis
I just finished reading Opening Atlantis by Harry Turtledove. It is an alternate history novel that takes place in a setting with a continent between North America (Terra Nova) and Europe. The map on the cover of the book shows the east coast of the United...
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The Spanish "Tercios" 1525 - 1704 - Describes the organization, tactics and battles of the Spanish army in its golden age. The text is available English (default), Spanish, and French. The Spanish Golden Age army had been forged from almost seven centuries...
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History of Uruguay. This is a short but informative overview to the history of the South American nation of Uruguay. From the site: The only inhabitants of Uruguay before European colonization of the area were the Charrua Indians, a small tribe driven...