Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations and maps ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Maps xii
6. A note on usage xiv
7. A city remembered, a city imagined 1
8. I: VILLAGE
9. In Carpetania 19
10. Hispania 28
11. The first heretics 35
12. Heaven and earth 41
13. Butcher, soldier, pastor, lord 55
14. Work and prayer 73
15. The emergence of Castile 79
16. The great turn 88
17. II: EMPIRE
18. Gold trimmed with lead 103
19. Strange universe 114
20. Carnival and Lent 132
21. Sic transit gloria mundi 142
22. The court of the Planet King 166
23. Velázquez and Teixeira 186
24. Regime change 196
25. New absolutisms 205
26. A conflagration 221
27. III: CITY
28. The spring of hope 229
29. The winter of despair 248
30. Stasis and discovery 264
31. The emerging metropolis 277
32. Pleasures and anxieties 292
33. New hopes, new conflicts 310
34. The city under siege 336
35. Ways of healing 356
36. IV: WORLD
37. The world turned upside down 383
38. The new behemoth 393
39. Hermosa Babilonia 409
40. Notes 415
41. Bibliography 434
42. Index 445