'This is an intriguing book. Lengthy and witty, Linehan's book is nevertheless primarily a work of formidable scholarship. Linehan has an unrivalled grasp of the early medieval Church and its doings.'Times Literary Supplement

• Abbreviations; Philip II and Hermenegild; III Toledo and its legacy; King Wamba and XII Toledo; The chronicle of Alfonso III; The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon; Leon and Castile in the eleventh century; The reconquest of Toledo 1085; 1147; Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula; Toledo after 1182; The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispaniae; D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas; The later thirteenth century; Yet again the coronation of 1135; Toledo after 1295; Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum; The chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'This is an intriguing book. Lengthy and witty, Linehan's book is nevertheless primarily a work of formidable scholarship. Linehan has an unrivalled grasp of the early medieval Church and its doings.'Times Literary Supplement

• Abbreviations; Philip II and Hermenegild; III Toledo and its legacy; King Wamba and XII Toledo; The chronicle of Alfonso III; The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon; Leon and Castile in the eleventh century; The reconquest of Toledo 1085; 1147; Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula; Toledo after 1182; The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispaniae; D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas; The later thirteenth century; Yet again the coronation of 1135; Toledo after 1295; Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum; The chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

'This is an intriguing book. Lengthy and witty, Linehan's book is nevertheless primarily a work of formidable scholarship. Linehan has an unrivalled grasp of the early medieval Church and its doings.'Times Literary Supplement

• Abbreviations; Philip II and Hermenegild; III Toledo and its legacy; King Wamba and XII Toledo; The chronicle of Alfonso III; The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon; Leon and Castile in the eleventh century; The reconquest of Toledo 1085; 1147; Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula; Toledo after 1182; The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispaniae; D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas; The later thirteenth century; Yet again the coronation of 1135; Toledo after 1295; Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum; The chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.