Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how the Fernandez de Cordoba family established networks of kin and clients that horizontally connected disparate imperial territories, binding together religious communities-Christians, Muslims, and Jews-and political factions-Comunero rebels and Catalan, French, and Ottoman sympathizers-into an incorporated imperial polity.
Trade Review"A powerful and complex challenge to the traditional story of how the Spanish Empire was sustained during the four centuries from the conquest of the Muslims in southern Spain to the end of the seventeenth century. This masterful and original study and its methodology will open a whole new approach to the history of empires from ancient times to the present." * Helen Nader, University of Arizona *
"It is . . . refreshing to see a discussion of the Spanish empire that focuses not on Flanders, Central Europe, or the Atlantic, but on the 'forgotten frontier' of North Africa (and Navarre). . . . This book . . . demonstrates the salutary effects and innovative potential of addressing both sides of the Mediterranean as component parts of the Spanish imperial venture." *
The Medieval Review *
Table of ContentsNote on Documentation
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Fernández de Córdoba Lineage in Late Medieval Córdoba, 1236-1500
Chapter 2. The Fernández de Córdoba Lineage and Early Spanish Expansion, 1482-1518
Chapter 3. The Regeneration of Monarchy and Nobility: Martín de Córdoba in Toledo, 1520-1525
Chapter 4. Navarre and the Imperialization of the House of Alcaudete, 1525-1534
Chapter 5. The Fernández de Córdoba Lineage and the Transfer of Frontier Expertise to Algeria, 1512-1558
Epilogue. Children of Empire: The Latter-Day Comares and Alcaudete
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
