The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity in Diversity

669 Pages·2021·36.559 MB·English

by  E. Michael Gerli and Ryan D. Giles

THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC STUDIES
COMPANION TO MEDIEVAL IBERIA
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 emer-
gent 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.
This interdisciplinary volume is an excellent introduction and reference work for students and
scholars in Iberian Studies and Medieval Studies.
E.Michael Gerli is Commonwealth Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Virginia,
USA.
Ryan D. Giles is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University,
Bloomington, USA.
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Edited by E. Michael Gerli and Ryan D. Giles
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THE ROUTLEDGE HISPANIC
STUDIES COMPANION TO
MEDIEVAL IBERIA
Unity in Diversity
Edited by
E. Michael Gerli and Ryan D. Giles
SERIES EDITOR: BRAD EPPS
SPANISH LIST ADVISOR: JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS
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Title: The Routledge Hispanic studies companion to medieval Iberia: unity in diversity/edited by
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Description: London; New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. |
Series: Routledge companions to Hispanic and Latin American studies |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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CONTENTS
List of contributors xi
Acknowledgments xix
Preface xx
PART I
The environment 1
1 Humans and the environment in medieval Iberia 3
Abigail Agresta
PART II
Societies, polities, and governments 19
2 Fragmentation and centralization: The emergent political culture of the
medieval Crown of Aragon 21
Thomas W. Barton
3 Mudéjares and Moriscos 35
Brian A. Catlos
4 Otherness, identities, and cultures in contact 52
Jean Dangler
5 The Visigothic and Suevic kingdoms: The road to unity in post-Roman
Hispania 67
Alberto Ferreiro
vii
Contents
6 Power and politics in Iberian societies, ca. 1035–1516 86
Teoflo F. Ruiz
7 The law 101
Jesús R. Velasco
8 Sefarad 119
David Wacks
PART III
Histories 135
9 Re-reading the conquest of Iberia: The dynamism of a medieval tradition 137
Nicola Clarke
10 ‘Abd al-Raḥma¯n III and the calipha˙te of Cordoba 152
Maribel Fierro
11 Writing the past, ordering the world: Alfonso the Wise’s Estorias within
his political and cultural agenda 167
Leonardo Funes
12 From Islamic to Christian conquest: Fatḥ invasion and Reconquista in
medieval Iberia 185
Alejandro García-Sanjuán
13 Islamogothic Iberia: The Ta¯r¯ıkh of Ibn al-Q¯u t¯ı̣yah 197
Nasser Meerkhan
PART IV
Philosophy and spirituality 213
14 Corporeality and soteriology in medieval Spanish hagiography: The
body as signifer in the Libre dels tres reys d’Orient 215
Andrew M. Beresford
15 Contested martyrdom: Voluntary death and blessed cursing in the works
of Eulogius and Paulus Alvarus of Córdoba 233
Ryan D. Giles
16 Ramon Llull and Lullism 244
Mark D. Johnston
viii
Contents
17 Toledo and beyond: Bishops and Jews in medieval Iberia 256
Lucy K. Pick
18 Turning and returning: Religious conversion and personal testimony in
Iberian societies 268
Ryan Szpiech
PART V
Gender 285
19 Medieval Iberian women and gender 287
Marie A. Kelleher
20 Iberian queenship: Theory and practice 303
Núria Silleras-Fernández
PART VI
Languages and literatures 325
21 Digital humanities and the Iberian Middle Ages 327
Susanna Allés-Torrent
22 The Galician-Portuguese cantigas, the history of emotion, and lyric as genre 345
Henry Berlin
23 Arabic alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew literary culture in
meta-critical perspective 363
Ross Brann
24 From heroes to courtly knights: The rise and development of chivalric
narrative in medieval Iberia 375
Axayácatl Campos García Rojas
25 Refections of the long thirteenth century: Curiosity, the politics of
knowledge, and imperial power in the Libro de Alexandre 391
E.Michael Gerli
26 Medieval Iberian travel literature 408
Michael Harney
27 Inscription, authorship, iteration: The textuality of medieval Catalan
literature 421
Albert Lloret
ix