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A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 138
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A Plural Peninsula embodies and upholds Professor Simon Barton’s influential scholarly legacy, eschewing rigid disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on textual, archaeological, visual and material culture, the sixteen studies in this volume offer new and important insights into the historical, socio-political and cultural dynamics characterising different, yet interconnected areas within Iberia and the Mediterranean. The structural themes of this volume --the creation and manipulation of historical, historiographical and emotional narratives; changes and continuity in patterns of exchange, cross-fertilisation and the recovery of tradition; and the management of conflict, crisis, power and authority-- are also particularly relevant for the postmedieval period, within and beyond Iberia.
Contributors are Janna Bianchini, Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Simon R. Doubleday, Ana Echevarría Arsuaga, Maribel Fierro, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Fernando Luis Corral, Therese Martin, Iñaki Martín Viso, Amy G. Remensnyder, Maya Soifer Irish, -Teresa Tinsley, Sonia Vital Fernández, Alun Williams, Teresa Witcombe, and Jamie Wood.
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Contributors are Janna Bianchini, Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Simon R. Doubleday, Ana Echevarría Arsuaga, Maribel Fierro, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Fernando Luis Corral, Therese Martin, Iñaki Martín Viso, Amy G. Remensnyder, Maya Soifer Irish, -Teresa Tinsley, Sonia Vital Fernández, Alun Williams, Teresa Witcombe, and Jamie Wood.
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Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Ph.D. (2009), University of Exeter, is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lincoln, and President of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. Her publications on medieval Iberian social and cultural history include Friendship in Medieval Iberia (Ashgate 2014, Routledge 2020).
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Part 1: Emotional Narratives: Pragmatism, Symbolism and Performance
1 The Restless Sea: Storm, Shipwreck and the Mediterranean, c.1000–1700
Amy G. Remensnyder
2 A Peninsula in Flames: War and Emotions in the Cantigas de Santa María
Simon R. Doubleday
3 ‘Emotional Diplomacy’: Trust and Political Communication in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo
Part 2: Re-assessing Historical and Historiographical Narratives
4 Adapting History to Modern Values? Re-evaluating Vellido Dolfos
Fernando Luis Corral
5 Praying for Conquest in Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Oratio in tempore belli adversus Saracenos
Teresa Witcombe
6 Reframing “Reconquista”. Hernando de Baeza’s Take on the Conquest of Granada
Teresa Tinsley
Part 3: Exchanges, Tradition and Cross-Fertilisation: Change and Continuity
7 The View from the Edge: Gallaecia and the Byzantine Mediterranean in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
Jamie Wood
8 A Forma Mesquite in Formam Ecclesiae: Toledo, Between Rodrigo and Ibn Hud
Jerrilynn D. Dodds
9 A Christian Iberian Attack on Twelfth-Century Medina? Keys to Understanding an Unusual Story
Maribel Fierro
10 Jewish Officials at Royal Courts in al-Andalus and Castile (Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries): Continuities and Disjunctions
Maya Soifer Irish
Part 4: Managing Conflict: Social, Physical and Imagined Boundaries
11 Sex, Theft, and Violence: Conflict and Local Society in the Mountains of León around the Year 1000
Iñaki Martín Viso
12 The Aristocracy against the King in the Twelfth Century: Rebellion as Opposition to Alfonso VII “Imperator Hispaniae”
Sonia Vital Fernández
13 Advancing Dogs and Rushing Lions: Animals and the Imagery of Conflict in the Poem of Almería
Alun Williams
Part 5: Authority, Leadership, Gender and Power Management
14 Once and Future Queen: Urraca ‘Regina Hispaniae’ (r. 1109–1126)
Therese Martin
15 Between Queen Regnant and Queen Consort: Berenguela of Castile, Beatrice of Swabia and the Nuances of Queenship
Ana Echevarría Arsuaga
16 Speaking Truth to Power: Authority, Social Status, and Gender in Thirteenth-Century Castilian Witness Testimony
Janna Bianchini
Index
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