Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies from across North America and Europe. At its heart is the Reconquista, without doubt the most important and enduring theme of Iberian historiography of the Middle Ages. The innovative studies collected herein, which treat a diverse array of subjects via forensic analyses of charters, chronicles and coins, shed new light on crucial aspects of medieval Iberian socio-economic, political and cultural history. The result is a collection of essays which marks a decisive and bold turning of the page in Iberian medieval studies, as the reality and ideal of Reconquest come under hitherto unparalleled scrutiny.
Contributors are Graham Barrett, Jeffrey Bowman, Alberto Canto, Nicola Clarke, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Jonathan Jarrett, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Iñaki Martín Viso and Lucy K. Pick.
Author(s): Simon Barton, Robert Portass
Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 289
City: Leiden
Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711–1085)
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Contributors
Simon Barton? (1962-2017)
Beyond the Reconquista: An Introductory Essay
Part 1: Hispania Old and New
1 The Life and Death of an Historiographical Folly: The Early Medieval Depopulation and Repopulation of the Duero Basin
2 Hispania at Home and Abroad
Part 2: Hispania Real and Imagined
3 A Likely Story: Purpose in Narratives from Charters of the Early Medieval Pyrenees
4 Counts in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Iberia
5 The Value of Wealth: Coins and Coinage in Iberian Early Medieval Documents
Part 3: Writing, Remembering, Representing
6 Record, Chronicle and Oblivion: Remembering and Forgetting Elite Women in Medieval Iberia
7 'He lashed his mawla with a whip, and shaved his head': Masculinity and Hierarchy in Early Andalusi Chronicles
8 Islam Concealed and Revealed: The Chronicle of 754 and Beatus of Liébana's Commentary on the Apocalypse
Index
