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The Golden Age of Spain: New Work on an Old Theme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. W. Lovett
A. W. Lovett
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University College, Dublin
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The Historical Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1981 , pp. 739 - 749
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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References

1 The standard economic text is Vázquez de Prada, V., Historia Económicay Social de España, Vol. iii, Los Sighs XVI y XVII (Madrid, 1978).Google Scholar

2 Some excellent studies of the medieval kingdom have appeared. They include Muñoz, E. Cabrera: El Condado de Belalcázar (1444–1518) (Córdoba, 1977).Google ScholarAurelio, Pretel Marío: Una Ciudad Castellana en los siglos XIV y XV (Alcaraz, 1300–1475) (Albacete, 1978).Google ScholarRaso, M. C. Quintanilla, Noblezay Señoríos en el Reino de Córdoba. La Casa de Aguilar (siglos XIV y XV) (Córdoba, 1979).Google ScholarAntonio, Collantes de Terán Sánchez, Sevilla en la Baja Edad Media (Seville, 1977).Google ScholarLópez de Coca Castañer, José E., La Tierra de Málaga a fines del siglo XV (Granada, 1977).Google ScholarAlmansa, M. Acien, Ronday su Serranía en tiempo de los Reyes Católicos (Málaga, 1979).Google Scholar

3 Pierre, Vilar, La Catalogne dans I’Espagne Moderne, Vol. 1 (Paris, 1962).Google Scholar

4 The best survey, in my view, of the European setting is to be found in Pierre, Léon (ed.), Histoire Economique et Sociale du Monde (Paris, 1977) tome 1, L’Ouverture du Monde XIVe-XVIe siècle, especially the contributions by Guy Fourquin; and tome 11 (Paris, 1978), Les Hesitations de la Croissance, 1580–1730, in particular the chapters by J.-P. Poussou & Jean Jacquart.Google Scholar

5 E.g. Aproximación a la Historia de España (Madrid, 1970). There is an English translation.

6 See Felipe, Ruiz Martín, Demografía eclesiástica hasta el siglo XIX, in Diccionario de Historia Eclesiástica de España, Vol. 1 (Madrid, 1972).Google Scholar

7 A general interpretation has been given by Bernard, Vincent, ‘La Peste atlántica de 1596–1602’, Asclepio, xxvIII (1976).Google Scholar

8 I regard this book as thoroughly unsatisfactory for reasons I have explained in English Historical Review, 1981 (forthcoming).

9 Other works on the subject of Castile include Francis, Brumont, La Bureba á l’ époque de Philippe II (New York, 1977)Google Scholar and Carla, Rahn Phillips, Ciudad Real, 1500–1750 (Cambridge, Mass. 1979).Google Scholar

10 It can best be compared with Portugal. See Joaquim, Antero Romero Magalhães, Para o estudo do Algarve Económico durante 0 século XVI (Lisbon, 1970)Google Scholar and António, de Oliveira, A vida económica e social de Coimbra de 1537 a 1640 (Coimbra, 1971–1972).Google Scholar

11 Casey, p. 14.

12 For a study of Murcia during the earlier part of the sixteenth century see Owen, John B., Rebeilón, monarquía y oligarquía murciana en la época de Carlos V (Murcia, 1980).Google Scholar

13 Perhaps as much as 26% of the active population is still employed on the land: Financial Times (31 January 1981), p. 14.

14 The phenomenon has received attention in an interesting collection of essays, Historia 16 Extra XII (Dec. 1979), España. Siglo XVII. Esplendor y Decadencia.

15 The topic has also been discussed by Eugenio, Císcar Pallarés: El Régimen Señorial Valenciano en la Epoca de la Expulsión de los Moriscos in Estudis: Revista de Historia Moderna, Vol. VII (1978).Google Scholar

16 There is a modern survey in Antonio, Domínguez Ortiz and Bernard, Vincent, Historia de los Moriscos. Viday Tragedia de una Minoria (Madrid, 1978).Google Scholar See also Ricardo, García Cárcel, La Historiografia sobre los Moriscos españoles. Aproximación a un estudio de la cuestión, in Estudis, Vol. 11 (1977).Google Scholar

17 The figure for Valencia is that of Henri, Lapeyre, Géographie de l’ Espagne Morisque (Paris, 1959), PP. 204–5.Google Scholar

18 A preliminary survey of the ground has been provided in Elliott, J. H.’s contribution to Dickens, A. G. (ed.), The Courts of Europe. Politics, patronage and royalty, 1400–1800 (London, 1977), chapter 8: ‘Philip IV of Spain: Prisoner of ceremony’.Google Scholar

19 Cordoba is the latest town to receive detailed study. See Bartolomé, Yun Casalilla: Crisis de Subsistencias y Conflictividad Social en Córdoba a Principios del Siglo XVI (Córdoba: Excma. Diputación de Córdoba, 1980);Google Scholar and the first rate José, Ignacio Fortea Pérez: Córdoba en el Siglo XVI. Las bases demográficas y conómicas de una expansión urbana (Córdoba: Publicaciones del Monte de Piedad y Caja de Ahorros de Cordoba, 1981).Google Scholar For a general survey of current research nothing ould be better than Angel García Sanz, ‘Castilla la Vieja y León durante el Antiguo imen: Economía, Sociedad y Política en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII’ in Baruque, J. Valdeón, Sanz, A. García, Fernández, J. Sanz: Iniciación a la Historia de Castilla-León (Burgos, 1980).Google Scholar