Jimenez de Cisneros. On the Threshold of Spain's Golden Age

Jimenez de Cisneros: On

the Threshold of

Spain's Golden Age

Medieval and Renaissance Texts

and

Studies

Volume 212

Renaissance Masters 3 Richard

J.

Schoeck

General Editor

Jimenez de Cisneros: On

the Threshold of

Spain's Golden Age

by

Erika Rummel

Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Tempe, Arizona 1999

—

A

generous grant from

The Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture

and United

States' Universities

has assisted in meeting the publication costs of this volume.

® Copyright 1999 Arizona Board of Regents for Arizona State University

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rummel,

Erika, 1942-

Jimenez de Cisneros

on the threshold of

:

Spain's

Golden Age / by

Erika Rummel. p.

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cm.

sance masters

;

&

(Medieval

Renaissance texts

&

studies; v. 212. Renais-

3)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 0-86698-254-X

(alk.

paper)

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Jimanez de Cisneros, Francisco, 1436.^-1517. 2. Spain History Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1516. 3. Statesmen—Spain—Biography. 4. Car1.

dinals— Spain—Biography.

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Studies (Series)

HI.

(Series).

;

212.

v.

Renaissance masters

Title,

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n. Medieval

Medieval

&

&

Renaissance Texts

Renaissance Texts

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&

Studies

3.

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Table of Contents

Preface

vii

Chapter

One

Spain in the

Chapter

Time

of Cisneros

1

Two

Cisneros'

Programme

of

Church Reform

18

Chapter Three Crusader, Missionary, and Guardian of the Faith

29

Chapter Four

The University

of Alcala and the Complutensian Polyglot

53

Chapter Five Cisneros and the Politics of Spain, 1492-1516 Chapter Six The Second Regency, 1516-1517 Chapter Seven

The

Final

Months

66

79 95

Chapter Eight The Image of the Cardinal

108

Literature Cited

119

Appendix

1

The Constitution

of San Ildefonso College

125

Life of Cardinal Cisneros

137

Appendix 2

An Anonymous Index

145

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