Short description:

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.

Long description:

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 MU?OZ-BASOLS

"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)

Table of Contents:

PART I: The Environment  1. Humans and the Environment in Medieval Iberia  PART II: Societies, Polities, and Governments  2. Fragmentation and Centralization: The Emergent Political Culture of the Medieval Crown of Aragon  3. Mudéjares and Moriscos  4. Otherness, Identities, and Cultures in Contact  5. The Visigothic and Suevic Kingdoms: The Road to Unity in Post-Roman Hispania  6. Power and Politics in Iberian Societies, ca. 1035-1516  7. The Law  8. Sefarad  PART III Histories  9. Re-reading the Conquest of Iberia: The Dynamism of a Medieval Tradition  10. ?Abd al-Ra?m?n III and the Caliphate of Cordoba  11. Writing the Past, Ordering the World: Alfonso the Wise?s Estorias within his Political and Cultural Agenda  12. From Islamic to Christian Conquest: Fat? Invasion and Reconquista in Medieval Iberia  13. Islamogothic Iberia: The T?r?kh of Ibn al-Q???yah  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  15. Contested Martyrdom: Voluntary Death and Blessed Cursing in the Works of Eulogius and Paulus Alvarus of Córdoba  16. Ramon Llull and Lullism  17. Toledo and Beyond: Bishops and Jews in Medieval Iberia  18. Turning and Returning: Religious Conversion and Personal Testimony in Iberian Societies  PART V Gender  19. Medieval Iberian Women and Gender  20. Iberian Queenship: Theory and Practice  PART VI Languages and Literatures  21. Digital Humanities and the Iberian Middle Ages  22. The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas, the History of Emotion, and Lyric as Genre  23. Arabic Alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew Literary Culture in Meta-Critical Perspective  24. From Heroes to Courtly Knights: The Rise and Development of Chivalric Narrative in Medieval Iberia  25. Reflections of the Long Thirteenth Century: Curiosity, the Politics of Knowledge, and Imperial Power in the Libro de Alexandre  26. Medieval Iberian Travel Literature  27. Inscription, Authorship, Iteration: The Textuality of Medieval Catalan Literature  28. The ?ad?th de Yúçuf: Reimagining a Prophet in a World of "Others? Words"  29. Extemporizing a Translation of the Arabic into Castilian: Translation and the Raciolinguistic Logic of Medieval Iberia  30. Clerical Soundscapes  31. Rapture and Horror: Reading Celestina in Sixteenth-Century Spain  32. Framing Intercultural Encounters in Three Iberian Translations of Kalila wa-Dimna  33. Evidence for an Underlying Ibero-Romance Vernacular: The Nodicia de kesos vis-?-vis its Corresponding Notarial Act  34. Epic Texts in Medieval Iberia: The Cultural Battlefield between Christians and Muslims  PART VII Visual Culture  35. Mudejar Teruel: Decoding an Art-historical Mystery  36. Coloring Words: New Perspectives on Visual Culture in León and Castile (Thirteenth through Fourteenth Centuries)  37. Performing Authority through Iconography: On Iberian Visionary Women and Images