Algunos problemas y retos de la Iglesia castellana en los comienzos del siglo XV (1406–1420), by Santiago González Sánchez

Abstract

At slightly over one hundred pages of text, this is a small book featuring generous print and comfortably sized margins, making for a visually pleasant reading experience. Alongside a minute conclusion and even briefer introduction, it consists of ten short chapters and a fairly comprehensive list of references. It contains no index, maps, charts or figures. True to Spanish scholarly tradition, footnotes are detailed and serve to add morsels of information, which rarely digress and tie in well with the main narrative. The reader is not told that the book is essentially a revised fragment of Santiago González Sánchez’s doctoral thesis on the subject of Castilian political life between 1406 and 1420, researched under the guidance of the distinguished medievalist Miguel Ángel Ladero Quesada and presented in 2010 to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. The book is the second of three instalments of the thesis to have been published as...