The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity draws together the innovative work of renowned scholars as well as several thought-provoking essays from emergent academics, in order to provide broad-range, in-depth coverage of the major aspects of the Iberian medieval world.
Exploring the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the Iberian Peninsula, the volume includes 37 original essays grouped around fundamental themes such as Languages and Literatures, Spiritualities, and Visual Culture.
Author(s): E. Michael Gerli and Ryan D. Giles
Series: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
Part I The environment
Chapter 1 Humans and the environment in medieval Iberia
Part II Societies, polities, and governments
Chapter 2 Fragmentation and centralization: The emergent political culture of the medieval Crown of Aragon
Chapter 3 Mudéjares and Moriscos
Chapter 4 Otherness, identities, and cultures in contact
Chapter 5 The Visigothic and Suevic kingdoms: The road to unity in post-Roman Hispania
Chapter 6 Power and politics in Iberian societies, ca. 1035–1516
Chapter 7 The law
Chapter 8 Sefarad
Part III Histories
Chapter 9 Re-reading the conquest of Iberia: The dynamism of a medieval tradition
Chapter 10 ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III and the caliphate of Cordoba
Chapter 11 Writing the past, ordering the world: Alfonso the Wise’s Estorias within his political and cultural agenda
Chapter 12 From Islamic to Christian conquest: Fatḥ invasion and Reconquista in medieval Iberia1
Chapter 13 Islamogothic Iberia: The Tārīkh of Ibn al-Qūṭīyah
Part IV Philosophy and spirituality
Chapter 14 Corporeality and soteriology in medieval Spanish hagiography: The body as signifier in the Libre dels tres reys d’Orient
Chapter 15 Contested martyrdom: Voluntary death and blessed cursing in the works of Eulogius and Paulus Alvarus of Córdoba
Chapter 16 Ramon Llull and Lullism
Chapter 17 Toledo and beyond: Bishops and Jews in medieval Iberia
Chapter 18 Turning and returning: Religious conversion and personal testimony in Iberian societies
Part V Gender
Chapter 19 Medieval Iberian women and gender
Chapter 20 Iberian queenship: Theory and practice
Part VI Languages and literatures
Chapter 21 Digital humanities and the Iberian Middle Ages
Chapter 22 The Galician-Portuguese cantigas, the history of emotion, and lyric as genre
Chapter 23 Arabic alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew literary culture in meta-critical perspective
Chapter 24 From heroes to courtly knights: The rise and development of chivalric narrative in medieval Iberia
Chapter 25 Reflections OF the long thirteenth century: Curiosity, the politics of knowledge, and imperial power in the Libro de Alexandre
Chapter 26 Medieval Iberian travel literature
Chapter 27 Inscription, authorship, iteration: The textuality of medieval Catalan literature
Chapter 28 The Ḥadīth de YÚçuf: Reimagining a prophet in a world of “others’ words”
Chapter 29 Extemporizing a translation of the Arabic into Castilian: Translation and the raciolinguistic logic of medieval Iberia
Chapter 30 Clerical soundscapes
Chapter 31 Rapture and horror: Reading Celestina in sixteenth-century Spain
Chapter 32 Framing intercultural encounters in three Iberian translations of Kalila wa-Dimna
Chapter 33 Evidence for an underlying Ibero–Romance vernacular: The Nodicia de kesos vis-à-vis its corresponding notarial act
Chapter 34 Epic texts in medieval Iberia: The cultural battlefield between Christians and Muslims
Part VII Visual culture
Chapter 35 Mudejar Teruel: Decoding an art-historical mystery
Chapter 36 Coloring words: New perspectives on visual culture in León and Castile (thirteenth through fourteenth centuries)
Chapter 37 Performing authority through iconography: On Iberian visionary women and images
Index
