Preface

 Chapter One    The Spanish Church and Honorius III: The Spanish Church and the Reconquest; Honorius III and Archbishop Rodrigo of Toledo; The Castilian Church in the 1220s; Honorius III's nuncios

 Chapter Two  The Legate John of Abbeville, 1228-1229: His Itinerary; His councils; His programme

 Chapter Three   The Reaction to John of Abbeville's Legislation: The 1230s; The cost of reform; Clerical education and capitular life; Clerical concubinage; The opposition; Innocent IV's capitulation; The memory of John of Abbeville

  Chapter Four  Pedro de Albalat and the reform of his Province: Pedro de Albalat; Reform in the province of Tarragona in the 1240s; Pedro's suffragans; Pedro and the Cistercians; Pedro and the Dominicans; Raymond of Peñafort; The Summa Septem Sacramentorum and its influence; Councils and synods in Aragon

 Chapter Five  Tarragona after Pedro de Albalat: Pedro's disciples; Reaction: the tempestuous career of Benito de Rocaberti; Decay of ecclesiastical discipline; Subsequent archiepiscopal activity

 Chapter Six  The economic problems of the Castilian Church, 1: The Castilian Church and the Reconquest; Ecclesiastical Contributions, 1212-48; The repartimiento of Seville and its beneficiaries; The Aragonese and Castilian churches contrasted; Royal taxation of the Castilian Church; Tercias

 Chapter Seven  The economic problems of the Castilian Church, 2: Financial transactions of Castilian churchmen; Italian creditors; Archbishop Gonzalo's difficulties c. 1280; The causes of indebtedness and its consequences; The churches of León and Palencia at mid-century

 Chapter Eight  The economic crisis of the Castilian Church: Aragon and Castile in the mid-1250s; The Castilian Reconquest halted; The alleged exactions of the papal Curia; I Lyons, 1245; The Aragonese and Castilian Churches in the mid-1250s; The Castilian Church effervescent; The years 1257-59; The role of Archbishop Sanchez of Toledo; The gravamina of the Castilian Church; Spain and Rome: papal provisions and Spanish nationalism

 Chapter Nine  The Papacy and Spain: The fiscal aspect; Papal nuncios to 1259; Nicholas of Terracina; The crisis of 1264: Clement IV and the Spanish monarchs; Papal taxation to II Lyons, 1274; Alfonso X and Germany: the memoriale secretum

  Chapter Ten  The Castilian Church at the end of the thirteenth Century: The bishops and the civil war, 1282-4; Bishops and mendicants; Munio of Zamora; Sancho IV and the Church; The episcipal succession at Jaén; Nicholas IV and the Spanish Churches, 1291; Clement V's collectors, 1313-14

  Chapter Eleven  Spaniards at the Curia, 1: The lure of Rome; Episcipal elections and the Papacy; The cost; The Papacy and Spanish benefices; Archbishop Juan Arias of Santiago; Constitutions of Spanish churches in the 1240s and 1250s

 Chapter Twelve  Spaniards at the Curia, 2: Cardinal Gil Torres, 1217-54; His familia; Proctors; Spaniards at the Curia; Cardinal Pelayo Gaitán; The constitution Execrebilis; Spaniards and cardinals; The church of  Zamora; Italian agents; Bribes; Meeting the cost; Economic regression and reform; The Dominicans in the later thirteenth century; Friars and the Castilian Church

 Conclusions and epilogue: Bishops, kings and popes; The question of control in the thirteenth-century Church; Control of the seventh-century and sixteenth-century Church; Mariana's view; The canonisation of Fernando III; San Fernando in fact and fiction

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