INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF
SPAIN
Useful Websites
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia: The article
on Spain in one of the most useful of all websites dealing with the subject.
Wikipedia is becoming the sort of thing the great scifi writer, Gordon Dickinson,
had in mind decades ago when he wrote about “The Great Encyclopedia” though
given its very fluid and unregulated nature, it is a website that must be
used with great care! Never rely on it exclusively for your information!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Spain
Libro, the Library of Iberian Resources Online: This
is a growing collection of books dealing with Spain reproduced on the web
in their entirety. http://libro.uca.edu/
Libro has published as part of its collection A History of
Spain and Portugal by Stanley Payne. This is a fine textbook by one
of America’s best-known historians of Spain. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107987.html
Spanish History Bibliography: Select bibliography put
out by Yale University listing useful books for Spanish research.
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/history/spanhist/
Travelling in Spain: Commercial site with lots of links
on a variety of cultural as well as historical subjects. There are also
links to pages with information on more than a dozen important cities and
towns. Good illustrations.
http://www.travelinginspain.com/culture.html
”Sí España”: Interactive site based in Canada.
Has short entries for many major historical topics. Site is available
in English, Spanish, French, and German. Good practice for your other
languages.
http://www.sispain.org/SiSpain/english/index.html
Spain Info.com: Non-academic site containing basic information
on Spanish culture. Contains a good map of Spain.
http://www.spain-info.com/index.html
Brief source with basic facts about Spain. The historical treatment
leans toward the 20th century.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107987.html
Websites dealing with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Campostela:
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela
Camino de Santiago: Multilingual site with numerous
illustrations.
http://www.santiago-compostela.net/
A walking tour recorded in photographs (2003).
http://www.worksandwords.com/sp03home.htm
Richard Frederik, On the Camino de Santiago: The Way of Saint
James: A Walking Tour (2005).
http://www.escapeartist.com/efam/75/Walking_The_Camino_de_Santiago.html
Primary Source Material
History of Spain: Primary Documents: An excellent
and wide-ranging collection of documents dealing with Spain through the ages.
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_Spain:_Primary_Documents
Libro, the Library of Iberian Resources Online: This
website, already mentioned above, contains an extensive list of books on
Spanish history no longer in print. Some of these constitute primary
sources. For example, the medieval Catalan lawcode, The Utsatges
of Barcelona, translated by my close friend and colleague, Donald J.
Kagay.
http://libro.uca.edu/
The Visigothic code (Forum judicum), translated by S.P. Scott
http://libro.uca.edu/vcode/visigoths.htm
Various items in the Medieval Sourcebook posted by Fordham University, one
of America's leading centers of Medieval Studies.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/
Medieval Sourcebook: Las Siete Partidas: Laws on Jews, 1265
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/jews-sietepart.html
Medieval Sourcebook: Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours,
732: Three Accounts http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html
Medieval Sourcebook: Ibn Abd-el-Hakem: The Islamic Conquest of Spain
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/conqspain.html
Jewish History Sourcebook: The Expulsion from Spain, 1492 CE:
www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/1492-jews-spain1.html
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