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

by E. Michael Gerli (Editor), Ryan D. Giles (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138629325
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2021
Series:	Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
Pages:	668
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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. ʽAbd al-Raḥmān 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: Fatḥ Invasion and Reconquista in Medieval Iberia 13. Islamogothic Iberia: The Tārīkh of Ibn al-Qūṭīyah 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 Ḥadīth 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-à-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

Editorial Reviews

"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)

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