A Companion to Medieval Toledo. Reconsidering the Canons explores the limits of “Convivencia” through new and problematized readings of material familiar to specialists and offers a thoughtful initiation for the non-specialist into the historical, cultural, and religious complexity of the iconic city of Toledo. The volume seeks to understand the history and cultural heritage of the city as a result of fluctuating coexistence. Divided into three themed sections,- the essays consider additional material, new transcriptions, and perspectives that contribute to more nuanced understandings of traditional texts or events. The volume places this cultural history and these new readings into current scholarly debates and invites its readers to do the same.
Author(s): Yasmine Beale-Rivaya, Jason Busic
Series: Brill's Companions to European History
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 320
City: Leiden
Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 The City and Shared Spaces
Chapter 1 Al-Ma ʾmūn of Toledo: A Warrior in the Palace Garden
Chapter 2 Prestige to Power: Toledo’s Cathedral Chapter and Assimilated Identity
Chapter 3 Evolución de las fortificaciones medievales en la Península Ibérica: el caso de Toledo
Part 2 Theology/Genealogy/Kinship
Chapter 4 Old Hispanic Chant Manuscripts of Toledo: Testimonies of a Local or of a Wider Tradition?
Chapter 5 Christian Theology in Arabic and the Mozarabs of Medieval Toledo: Primary Texts, Main Themes, and Potential Problems
Chapter 6 Toledo 1449: The Complex Political Space(s) and Dynamics of Civic Violence
Chapter 7 Toledo as a Geographical and Literary Reference in the Blood-Libel Legend
Part 3 Language and Translation
Chapter 8 Shared Legal Spaces in the Arabic Language Notarial Documents of Toledo
Chapter 9 Tathlīth al-waḥdāniyya (The Trebling of the Oneness): Translated from Arabic
Chapter 10 The Toledan Translation Movement and DominicusGundissalinus: Some Remarks on His Activity and Presence in Castile
Epilogue Re-reading the Canons of Medieval Toledo: Echoes of Debates of Iberian Historiography
General Bibliography
Index
