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The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Medieval Iberia Unity in Diversity
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.
This interdisciplinary volume is an excellent introduction and reference work for students and scholars in Iberian Studies and Medieval Studies.
SERIES EDITOR: BRAD EPPS
SPANISH LIST ADVISOR: JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS
PART I: The Environment
1 Humans and the Environment in Medieval Iberia
Abigail Agresta
PART II: Societies, Polities, and Governments
2 Fragmentation and Centralization: The Emergent Political Culture of the Medieval Crown of Aragon
Thomas W. Barton
3 Mudéjares and Moriscos
Brian A. Catlos
4 Otherness, Identities, and Cultures in Contact
Jean Dangler
5 The Visigothic and Suevic Kingdoms: The Road to Unity in Post-Roman Hispania
Alberto Ferreiro
6 Power and Politics in Iberian Societies, ca. 1035-1516
Teófilo F. Ruiz
7 The Law
Jesús R. Velasco
8 Sefarad
David Wacks
PART III Histories
9 Re-reading the Conquest of Iberia: The Dynamism of a Medieval Tradition
Nicola Clarke
10 ʽAbd al-Raḥmān III and the Caliphate of Cordoba
Maribel Fierro
11 Writing the Past, Ordering the World: Alfonso the Wise’s Estorias within his Political and Cultural Agenda
Leonardo Funes
12 From Islamic to Christian Conquest: Fatḥ Invasion and Reconquista in Medieval Iberia
Alejandro García-Sanjuán
13 Islamogothic Iberia: The Tārīkh of Ibn al-Qūṭīyah
Nasser Meerkhan
PART IV Philosophy and Spirituality
14 Corporeality and Soteriology in Medieval Spanish Hagiography: The Body as Signifier in the Libre dels tres reys d’Orient
Andrew M. Beresford
15 Contested Martyrdom: Voluntary Death and Blessed Cursing in the Works of Eulogius and Paulus Alvarus of Córdoba
Ryan D. Giles
16 Ramon Llull and Lullism
Mark D. Johnston
17 Toledo and Beyond: Bishops and Jews in Medieval Iberia
Lucy K. Pick
18 Turning and Returning: Religious Conversion and Personal Testimony in Iberian Societies
Ryan Szpiech
PART V Gender
19 Medieval Iberian Women and Gender
Marie A. Kelleher
20 Iberian Queenship: Theory and Practice
Núria Silleras-Fernández
PART VI Languages and Literatures
21 Digital Humanities and the Iberian Middle Ages
Susanna Allés-Torrent
22 The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas, the History of Emotion, and Lyric as Genre
Henry Berlin
23 Arabic Alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew Literary Culture in Meta-Critical Perspective
Ross Brann
24 From Heroes to Courtly Knights: The Rise and Development of Chivalric Narrative in Medieval Iberia
Axayácatl Campos García Rojas
25 Reflections of the Long Thirteenth Century: Curiosity, the Politics of Knowledge and Imperial Power in the Libro de Alexandre
E. Michael Gerli
26 Medieval Iberian Travel Literature
Michael Harney
27 Inscription, Authorship, Iteration: The Textuality of Medieval Catalan Literature
Albert Lloret
28 The Ḥadīth de Yúçuf: Reimagining a Prophet in a World of "Others’ Words"
Andrea Pauw
29 Extemporizing a Translation of the Arabic into Castilian: Translation and the Raciolinguistic Logic of Medieval Iberia
S.J. Pearce
30 Clerical Soundscapes
Simone Pinet
31 Rapture and Horror: Reading Celestina in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Loreto Romero
32 Framing Intercultural Encounters in Three Iberian Translations of Kalila wa-Dimna
Rachel Scott
33 Evidence for an Underlying Ibero-Romance Vernacular: The Nodicia de kesos vis-à-vis its Corresponding Notarial Act
Omar Velázquez-Mendoza
34 Epic Texts in Medieval Iberia: The Cultural Battlefield between Christians and Muslims
Irene Zaderenko
PART VII Visual Culture
35 Mudejar Teruel: Decoding an Art-historical Mystery
Marianne David
36 Coloring Words: New Perspectives on Visual Culture in León and Castile (Thirteenth through Fourteenth Centuries)
Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández and Francisco Prado-Vilar
37 Performing Authority through Iconography: On Iberian Visionary Women and Images
Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida
Biography
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 the University of Indiana, Bloomington, USA.
"This book is a true companion, providing a panoramic view of Medieval Iberia while also presenting the state of the !eld in key areas. Hence the collection is a valuable resource for early modernists, as we are often called upon to teach the Medieval period, particularly in survey courses, and our research can only benefit from an appreciation for the latest work in a closely related field. The volume is informed by the fifty-year career of Michael Gerli, who is known for applying contemporary theory to early texts and whose research transits the two fields, as well as by the legacy of his impact upon his students, including his co-editor, Ryan Giles. Together, they assembled selections from an impressive range of scholars of different disciplines, generations and national traditions, drawing upon the cultural production of the many peoples and languages of Iberia —Semitic and Romance—, fulfilling their claims to decenter the Castilian canon and avoid facile teleologies and taxonomies."
Crystal Anne Chemris, University of Oregon, US; Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry, vol. 26, no. 2 (2021)