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- catalog abstract ""For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Proteges 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 them. 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12227034.
- catalog coverage "Castile (Spain) History.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. Proteges 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 them. 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-179) and index.".
- catalog extent "vi, 198 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Lara family.".
- catalog identifier "0674006062 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Lara family.".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard historical studies ; 141".
- catalog isPartOf "Harvard historical studies ; v. 141.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Lara family.".
- catalog spatial "Castile (Spain) History.".
- catalog spatial "Spain Castile.".
- catalog subject "946/.302 21".
- catalog subject "DP60.L3 D68 2001".
- catalog subject "Lara family.".
- catalog subject "Nobility Spain Castile.".
- catalog title "The Lara family : crown and nobility in medieval Spain / Simon R. Doubleday.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".