Teofilo F. Ruiz is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous publications include A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2012), Spain, 1300-1469: Centuries of Crises (2007), Medieval Europe and the World (2005) and From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350 (2004).

"Spanish Society combines up to date scholarship with accessible readibility for students. Teo Ruiz's use of vignettes makes of this book a handy resource while covering themes familiar to historians of Spain' s Golden Age. The topical rather than chronological lay out of Spanish Society enables instructors to craft their courses in multiple ways. Still, the intellectual depth of Spanish Society provides for stimulating classroom dialogue. As such, Ruiz's textbook has no parallel."Céline Dauverd, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

• ContentsList of tablesPreface to the second editionPreface to the first editionAcknowledgements Introduction: from medieval to early modern PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL SETTING1 The Making of Spain PART TWO: A SOCIETY OF ORDERS2 Those who have not: peasants and town dwellers 3 Those who have: nobility and clergy 4 On the margins of society PART THREE: THE STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE5 Festivals and power: sites of inclusion and exclusion 6 From Carnival to Corpus Christi: festivals of affirmation 7 The burdens of violence: sites of conflict 8 Resisting violence: the wrath of the poor 9 The patterns of everyday life: eating and dressing 10 The patterns of everyday life: religion, honour, sexuality and popular culturePART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AN AGE OF DECLINE11 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis I12 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis IIConclusionAppendix I: Chronology of events, 1390–1700 Appendix II: Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

Teofilo F. Ruiz is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous publications include A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2012), Spain, 1300-1469: Centuries of Crises (2007), Medieval Europe and the World (2005) and From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350 (2004).

"Spanish Society combines up to date scholarship with accessible readibility for students. Teo Ruiz's use of vignettes makes of this book a handy resource while covering themes familiar to historians of Spain' s Golden Age. The topical rather than chronological lay out of Spanish Society enables instructors to craft their courses in multiple ways. Still, the intellectual depth of Spanish Society provides for stimulating classroom dialogue. As such, Ruiz's textbook has no parallel."Céline Dauverd, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

• ContentsList of tablesPreface to the second editionPreface to the first editionAcknowledgements Introduction: from medieval to early modern PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL SETTING1 The Making of Spain PART TWO: A SOCIETY OF ORDERS2 Those who have not: peasants and town dwellers 3 Those who have: nobility and clergy 4 On the margins of society PART THREE: THE STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE5 Festivals and power: sites of inclusion and exclusion 6 From Carnival to Corpus Christi: festivals of affirmation 7 The burdens of violence: sites of conflict 8 Resisting violence: the wrath of the poor 9 The patterns of everyday life: eating and dressing 10 The patterns of everyday life: religion, honour, sexuality and popular culturePART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AN AGE OF DECLINE11 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis I12 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis IIConclusionAppendix I: Chronology of events, 1390–1700 Appendix II: Glossary of terms Bibliography Index

Teofilo F. Ruiz is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous publications include A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain (2012), Spain, 1300-1469: Centuries of Crises (2007), Medieval Europe and the World (2005) and From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350 (2004).

"Spanish Society combines up to date scholarship with accessible readibility for students. Teo Ruiz's use of vignettes makes of this book a handy resource while covering themes familiar to historians of Spain' s Golden Age. The topical rather than chronological lay out of Spanish Society enables instructors to craft their courses in multiple ways. Still, the intellectual depth of Spanish Society provides for stimulating classroom dialogue. As such, Ruiz's textbook has no parallel."Céline Dauverd, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

• ContentsList of tablesPreface to the second editionPreface to the first editionAcknowledgements Introduction: from medieval to early modern PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND POLITICAL SETTING1 The Making of Spain PART TWO: A SOCIETY OF ORDERS2 Those who have not: peasants and town dwellers 3 Those who have: nobility and clergy 4 On the margins of society PART THREE: THE STRUCTURES OF EVERYDAY LIFE5 Festivals and power: sites of inclusion and exclusion 6 From Carnival to Corpus Christi: festivals of affirmation 7 The burdens of violence: sites of conflict 8 Resisting violence: the wrath of the poor 9 The patterns of everyday life: eating and dressing 10 The patterns of everyday life: religion, honour, sexuality and popular culturePART FOUR: CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AN AGE OF DECLINE11 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis I12 Spain under the late Habsburgs: Society in an age of crisis IIConclusionAppendix I: Chronology of events, 1390–1700 Appendix II: Glossary of terms Bibliography Index