Spanish Society, 1348-1700

Teofilo F. Ruiz is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous publications include A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2012), Spain, 1300-1469: Centuries of Crises (2007), Medieval Europe and the World (2005) and From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350 (2004). 　

Contents

List of tables

Preface to the second edition

Preface to the first edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction: from medieval to early modern

PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL SETTING

1 The Making of Spain

PART TWO: A SOCIETY OF ORDERS

2 Those who have not: peasants and town dwellers 3 Those who have: nobility and clergy 4 On the margins of society

PART THREE: THE STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

5 Festivals and power: sites of inclusion and exclusion 6 From Carnival to Corpus Christi: festivals of affirmation 7 The burdens of violence: sites of conflict 8 Resisting violence: the wrath of the poor 9 The patterns of everyday life: eating and dressing 10 The patterns of everyday life: religion, honour, sexuality and popular culture

PART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AN AGE OF DECLINE

11 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis I

12 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis II

Conclusion

Appendix I: Chronology of events, 1390–1700

Appendix II: Glossary of terms

Bibliography

Index