On the Social Origins of Medieval Institutions. Essays in Honor of Joseph F. O'Callaghan.

Leiden-Boston-Köln, E.J. Brill. 1998. Original publisher's green-blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: frontispiece portrait, xxiv, 346pp., [ij], 14 contributions with footnotes & references, illustrations, map, list contributors, acknowledgements, abbreviations, bibliography of Joseph F. O'Callaghan, table of contents, list rulers of Medieval Spain, general bibliography, index. CONTENTS: James Arthur: Force and fear: a marriage case from eleventh-century Aragon. Nina Mechelen: Calling names: the identification of Jews in Christian documents from medieval Toledo. James William Brodman: Shelter and segregation: lepers in medieval Catalonia. William Phillips: Peste negra: the fourteenth-century plague epidemics in Iberia. Teofilo Ruiz: The business of salvation: Castilian wills in the late Middle Ages. Theresa M. Vann: A new look at the foundation of the Order of Calatrava. Lawrence J. McCran: The lost kingdom of Siurana: highland resistance by Muslims to Christian reconquest and assimilation in the twelfth century. Nicolas Agrait: The reconquest during the reign of Alfonso XI (1312-1350). Robert Ignatius Burns: The many crusades of Valencia's conquest (1225-1280): an historiographical labyrinth. Paul E. Chevedden: The hybrid trebuchet: the halfway step to the counterweight trebuchet. Donald J. Kagay: The emergence of ""parliament"" in the thirteenth-century crown of Aragon: a view from the gallery. Paulette L. Pepin: The council of Peñafiel 1302: the Castilian church's reassertion of its libertas ecclesiastica. Steven Wayne Isaac: Defeat from the jaws of victory: Stephen of Blois in England. Jean A. Truax: Politics makes uneasy bedfellows: Henry I of England and Theobald of Blois. Very fine copy - as new. Volume 19: The Medieval Mediterranean Peoples, Economics and Cultures, 400-1453.