Spanish History

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Spanish History

• 13th-15th Centuries

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The Thirteenth Century

• Reconquest achieved great territorial gains
• Shift from popular and epic poetry (art of
  minstrels) to refined art of versification (art
  of clerics)
• Alfonso X el Sabio (12-53-84) gave impetus to
  literature

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The Fourteenth Century

• The crisis of the Middle Ages
• The Babylonian Capitivity of the pope
• The Great Schism
• The Black Death
• The 100 Year War
• The War of the Roses

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The Babylonian Capitivity of the Pope
Pope Nicholas V
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Avignon, France
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The War of the Roses 1455-1487
The House of York vs. The House of Lancaster
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The Black Death
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The Hundred Year War
Henry V of England
Charles VI of France
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THE BATTLE OF BAUGÉ - 1421
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Joan of Arc
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Literature

• Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita
• The Book of Good Love
• Introduction of Trotaconventos - forerunner of
  Celestina
• Introduction of Don Furón - forerunner of
  Lazarillo
• The most important work of the 14th Century

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Literature

• Don Juan Manuel
• Conde Lucanor
• First sources of the Europen novel
• Influenced Hans Christian Anderson
• The Emperors New Clothes
• Influenced Shakespear
• The Taming of the Shrew

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El libro de buen amor
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The Fifteenth Century and the Renaissance

• The Fall of Constantinople 1453
• Accession of Isabel of Castilla and Fernando de
  Aragón in 1479
• The Fall of Granada 1492
• Columbus discovers the New World
• Castilian becomes the dominant language
• First Spanish Grammar
• The Insquisition established

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The Fall of Constantinople
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The Fall of Constantinople
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Fernando and Isabela
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The Fall of Granada
The Conversion of Moorish Women