| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 198 pages) : maps. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Harvard historical studies ; 141
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Harvard historical studies ; v. 141.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-179) and index. |
| Summary |
For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Protégés of the monarchy at the time of El Cid, their influence reached extraordinary heights during the struggle against the Moors. Hand-in-glove with successive kings, they gathered an impressive array of military and political positions across the Iberian Peninsula. But cooperation gave way to confrontation, as the family was pitted against the crown in a series of civil wars. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family. The Laras' militant quest for territorial strength and the conflict with the monarchy led toward a fatal end, but anticipated a form of aristocratic power that long outlived the family. The noble elite would come to dominate Spanish society in the coming centuries, and the Lara family provides important lessons for students of the history of nobility, monarchy, and power in the medieval and early modern world. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lara family.
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Lara family. |
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Lara (Family) |
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Castile (Spain) -- History.
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Nobility -- Spain -- Castile.
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Nobility. |
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Spain -- Castile. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Doubleday, Simon R. Lara family. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001 0674006062 9780674006065 (DLC) 2001016916 (OCoLC)46462653 |
| ISBN |
9780674034297 (electronic book) |
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0674034295 (electronic book) |
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0674006062 |
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9780674006065 |
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0674006062 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674006065 (alkaline paper) |
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