![]() ![]() Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner The right of Samuel A. Boydell & Brewer Limited, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of this volume New proposals for the series are welcomed they should be sent to the publisher at the address below. Series editors Matthew Bennett, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK Anne Curry, University of Southampton, UK Stephen Morillo, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, USA This series aims to provide a wide-ranging and scholarly approach to military history, offering both individual studies of topics or wars, and volumes giving a selection of contemporary and later accounts of particular battles its scope ranges from the early medieval to the early modern period. © Museo Nacional del Prado, reproduced by kind permission.Ĭ H I VA L RY and VIOLENCE in Late Medieval CastileĬhivalry and Violence in Late Medieval Castile CLAUSSEN is Assistant Professor of History at California Lutheran University.Ĭover Image: The First Deed of El Cid by Juan Vicens Cots. Their powerful ideas and values shaped the course of Castilian history in the crucial years before the unification of the Spanish kingdoms. The author argues that chivalry was far from being a code of good behaviour, scrupulously observed, but rather encouraged knights to avenge themselves violently upon their neighbours, pursue a zealous holy war against Islam, and tear at the social fabric of Castilian society. This book explores the roots of the disorder that plagued Castile in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, identifying the ideology of chivalry and its knightly practitioners as the chief instigators of the violence that destabilized the kingdom. The chaos that marked this period of Castilian history was not mere chance, but the result of key historical developments which have not been fully examined in Anglophone scholarship. He Kingdom of Castile in the late Middle Ages suffered from regular civil strife, warfare, dynastic contests, and violence, such that only a century before the birth of the Spanish Empire, it is difficult to imagine a successful world empire centered in this tumultuous realm. ![]()
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