Poder político y sociedad en Castilla

Rather than putting together a Festschrift to celebrate Professor Ladero’s retirement from the Chair of Medieval History at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, a select group of his colleagues and disciples has decided to reprint a representative sample of his own writings, a brilliant idea and a daunting task. About forty books and three hundred and fifty scholarly articles (not including his eighty-one substantial entries in the Lexikon des Mittelalters and the odd educational TV script) are listed in the bibliography included at the end of the book. Out of that imposing corpus, the twelve chosen pieces are linked by a shared theme indicated in the book’s title: (the structure, evolution and exercise of) political power in Castilian society between the thirteenth and the fifteenth centuries. Four introductory essays by former disciples recall the professional and human contexts in which those studies appeared, from the 1970s to the present, as Professor Ladero progressed through the universities of La Laguna in the Canary Islands, Seville, Cádiz and the Complutense of Madrid—teaching, supervising forty-five Ph.D. theses, and founding and directing the prestigious journal En la España Medieval (from 1980 to the present), not to mention his activities as member of the Royal Academy of History since 1992

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