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 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

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.

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-Räman 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 Tarikh of Ibn al-Qu-iyah 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 -adith 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