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INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY AND
CULTURE OF SPAIN
Course Lecture Topic
COURSE
TOPICS
(1) Spain: A Gallop Through
the Ages (List) (Notes)
(2) Iberian Geography ( List) (Notes)
(3) The Languages of Spain
(List) (Notes)
(4) Prehistoric Spain I: The First Spaniard (List) (Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 1-2)
(5) Prehistoric Spain II: The First Artist (List) (Notes)
(6) Beginnings of (Written) Spanish History: Iberians,
Phoenicians, Carthaginians, and Greeks (List) (Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 2-6)
(7) Rome vrs. Carthage: Spain and
the Epic Struggle for Mediterranean Dominance (List) (Notes)
(8) Hispania: The Roman Period (List) (Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 6-13)
(9) Visigothic Spain and the German Invasions (List) (Notes)
(Reading: Barton, 13-21; Medieval
Iberia, 3-23)
(10) Islamic Spain: The Conquest and Civilization of Al Andaluz
(List) (Notes)
(Reading: Barton,21-31,
37-43; Medieval
Iberia, 29-42, 45-55,
62-74, 77-107, 175-206,
323-29)
(11) The Reconquista as a Crusading Movement (List)
(Notes) (Reading: Barton, 31-36, 44-83; Medieval Iberia, 56-61, 111-36, 143-72,
209-36, 239-93)
(12) The Road to Santiago (List) (Notes)
(Reading: Medieval
Iberia, 137-42)
(13) The Strange Case of Portugal (List)
(Notes)
(14) Late Medieval Spain: Unification
under the Catholic Monarchs (List) (Notes)
((Reading:
Barton, 83-102;
Medieval Iberia,
294-322, 343-31)
(15) The Life and Death of
Tolerance: Christians, Jews, and Moslems in Medieval
Spain (List) (Notes)
((Reading: Medieval
Iberia, 330-42, 352-70)
(16) Sixteenth Century: Coming
of the Hapsburgs and the Spanish Imperium
(List)
(Notes) (Readings: Barton, 102-133)
(17) Iberia Overseas: Pioneers in the Age of European
Expansion (List) (Notes)
(Reading: Medieval
Iberia, 371-81)
(18) Seventeenth Century: Golden Century or
Century of Decline? (List) (Notes)
(19) Eighteenth Century:
The Bourbons, the Enlightenment and the French
Revolution (List)
(Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 134-67)
(20) Nineteenth Century
(List)
(Notes) (Readings: Barton, 168-202)
(21) The Spanish Republic
and Civil War (List)
(Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 202-31)
(22) Spain under Franco
(List)
(Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 231-43)
(23) Spain since Franco (List) (Notes)
(Readings: Barton, 243-55)
APPENDICES:
Systems of Historical Dating
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