The Emergence of Le�n-Castile c.1065-1500: Essays Presented to J.F. O'Callaghan, (Hardcover)

The Emergence of LeÃ3n-Castile brings together the current research of colleagues, students and friends of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, a pioneer in the study of the kingdom of LeÃ3n-Castile. The essays focus on the politics, law and economy of LeÃ3n-Castile from its first great leap forward in the eleventh century to the civil strife of the fifteenth. No other volume in English allows the reader to trace the institutional development of the kingdom over several centuries. The collection underlines the fact that LeÃ3n-Castile was not a backwater but a sophisticated state that had an important influence on the development of medieval and renaissance Europe.