The Routledge Hispanic studies companion to medieval Iberia : unity in diversity

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 and ©2021

Subject:

Iberian Peninsula - Civilization
Spain - Civilization - 711-1516
Portugal - Civilization - To 1500

Contributor:

Gerli, E. Michael, editor
Giles, Ryan D. (Ryan Dennis), editor

ISBN:

9781138629325 and 1138629324

Series:

Routledge companions to Hispanic and Latin American studies

Description:

xxiii, 643 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Humans and the environment in Medieval Iberia / Abigail Agresta -- Fragmentation and centralization : the emergent political culture of the Medieval Crown of Aragon / Thomas W. Barton -- Mudéjares and Moriscos / Brian Catlos -- Otherness, identities, and cultures in contact / Jean Dangler -- The Visigothic and Suevic kingdoms : the road to unity in Post-Roman Hispania / Alberto Ferreiro -- Power and politics in Iberian societies, ca. 1035-1516 / Teófilo F. Ruiz -- The law / Jesús R. Velasco -- Sefarad / David Wacks -- Re-reading the conquest of Iberia : the dynamism of a medieval tradition / Nicola Clarke -- 'Abd al-Raḥmān III and the Caliphate of Cordoba / Maribel Fierro -- Writing the past, ordering the world : Alfonso the Wise's Estorias within his political & cultural agenda / Leonardo Funes -- From Islamic to Christian conquest : Fatḥ invasion and Reconquista in Medieval Iberia / Alejandro García-Sanjuán -- Islamogothic Iberia : The Tārīkh of Ibn al-Qūṭīyah / Nasser Meerkhan -- Corporeality and soteriology in Medieval Spanish hagiography : the body as signifier in the Libre dels tres reys d'Orient / Andrew M. Beresford -- Contested martyrdom : voluntary death and blessed cursing in the works of Eulogius and Paulus Alvarus of Córdoba / Ryan D. Giles -- Ramon Llull and Lullism / Mark D. Johnston -- Toledo and beyond : bishops and Jews in Medieval Iberia / Lucy K. Pick -- Turning and returning : religious conversion and personal testimony in Iberian societies / Ryan Szpiech -- Medieval Iberian women & gender / Marie A. Kelleher -- Iberian queenship : theory and practice / Núria Silleras-Fernández -- Digital humanities and the Iberian Middle Agesv / Susanna Allés-Torrent -- The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas, the history of emotion, and lyric as genre / Henry Berlin -- Arabic alongside and into Hebrew : Andalusi Hebrew literary culture in meta-critical perspective / Ross Brann -- From heroes to courtly knights : the rise and development of chivalric narrative in Medieval Iberia / Axayácatl Campos García Rojas -- Reflections of the long thirteenth century : curiosity, the politics of knowledge and imperial power in The Libro de Alexandre / E. Michael Gerli -- Medieval Iberian travel literature / Michael Harney -- Inscription, authorship, iteration : the textuality of Medieval Catalan literature / Albert Lloret -- The Ḥadīth de Yúçuf : reimagining a prophet in a world of "others' words" / Andrea Pauw -- Extemporizing a translation of the Arabic into Castilian : translation and the raciolinguistic logic of Medieval Iberia / S.J. Pearce -- Clerical soundscapes / Simone Pinet -- Rapture and horror : reading Celestina in sixteenth-century Spain / Loreto Romero -- Framing intercultural encounters in three Iberian translations of Kalila wa-Dimna / Rachel Scott -- Evidence for an underlying Ibero-Romance vernacular : The Nodicia de kesos vis-à-vis its corresponding notarial act / Omar Velázquez-Mendoza -- Epic texts in Medieval Iberia : the cultural battlefield between Christians and Muslims / Irene Zaderenko -- Mudejar Teruel : decoding an art-historical mystery / Marianne David -- Coloring words : new perspectives on visual culture in León and Castile (thirteenth through fourteenth centuries) / Marina Aurora Garzón Fernández and Francisco Prado-Vilar -- Performing authority through iconography : on Iberian visionary women and images / Rebeca Sanmartín Bastida

Summary:

"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 thirty-seven 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"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

DP99 .R77 2021

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