Table of Contents
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