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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, Vol. 1 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic Vol 1 of 3 - Classic Reprint Author:William Hickling Prescott FOR several hundred years after the great Saracen invasion in the beginning of the eighth century, Spain was broken up into a numher of small, but independent states, divided in their interests, and often in deadly hostility with one another. It was inhabited by races, the most dissimilar in their origin, religion, and government, the least impo... more »rtant of which has exerted a sensible influence on the character and institutions of its present inhabitan
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INTRODUCTION; SECTION 1; VIEW OF TilE CASTUJAN MO"':ARCJtY DEFORe Tue t-'1FT£; ENTH CESTVRY; State of Spain at the ~nddle of the Fifteenth Century; Early History IlJld Constitution of Castile; The Visigoths; Invasion of the Arabs; Its InlJuence on the Condition of the Spaninrd3; Cause8 of their low Reconquest of the Country; Their ultimate Success certain; xxx; UKii; xuu; xxxiii; • xxxvi; xxxvii; xxxviii; Their ReligiollB EothusillSm • xxxviii; Influence of their Minstrelsy; Their Charity to the {nfidel; Their Chivalry; Early Importance of the Castilian Towna; Their Privjleges; Castilian Cortes; Its gTe8l Powers; Its Boldness; HennnndadeB of Castile; Wealth of the Cities; Period of the highest Pover of the CommOI18; "he Nobility; Their Privileges; Their grent Wealth; Their turbulent Spirit; VOL I; •; xl; m; xlii; xl"; xJ,; xlviii; 1; )ij; lill; liv; 1m; 1vili; lix; Ix; lxii; xviii CONTENTS; The Cm:t:lll:r()$ or Knights; The Clergy; Influence of the Papal Court; Corruption of the Clergy; Their rich Possessions; Limited Extent of the Royal Prerogative; Poverty of the Crown; Its Causes; Anecdote of Henry Ill, of Castile; Constitutional Writers on Castile; P3gfl; ]xiv; lxvl; bTl; • luu; 1XVlll; lxxi; Juiv; • lxxiv; tuv; Coustitution at the Beginning of the Fifteenth Century •; Notice of Marina and ::)cmperc; • lxxvii; um; • ixxix; SECTION II; REvn,,, o« less