Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 466 p. — (Mediterranean Perspectives). This volume is a collection of essays on medieval Spain, written by leading scholars on three continents, that celebrates the career of Thomas F. Glick. Using a wide array of innovative methodological approaches, these essays offer insights on areas of medieval Iberian history that have been of particular...
University of Chicago, 2020. — 180 p. I intend to analyze the challenges that the presence of a hegemonic Christian power posed to Islamic law and its practitioners in the kingdom of Granada in the early 15th century. In so doing, I hope to explore the nature of Islamic law as a religious, legal, and political system. My primary aims will be to trace the limits of this system’s...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 268 p. — (Text und Kontext 37). Die spanischen Renaissancedialoge, die von Autoren wie Diego de Sagredo, Cristóbal de Villalón oder Antonio Agustín im 16. Jahrhundert zur Kunst- und Malereitheorie verfasst wurden, zeichnen sich durch eine Reihe von Besonderheiten aus. Im Gegensatz zu den anderen Gattungen des frühneuzeitlichen kunsttheoretischen...
Routledge, 2025. — 185 p. — (Routledge Medieval Translations). The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fatḥ al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fatḥ al-Andalus (“The Conquest of al-Andalus”), which covers the history of Muslim Spain from the time of the initial conquest in 711 CE until the rise of the...
Brill, 2012. — 263 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 46). The conversos of late medieval and Golden Age Spain were Christians whose Jewish ancestors had been forced to change faiths within a society that developed a preoccupation with pure Christian lineage. The aims of this book is to shed new light on the cultural impact of this social climate, in which public...
University of Colorado, 2018. — 130 p. This thesis carries forward the current body of scholarship surrounding medieval perceptions of the Visigothic past by taking a wider consideration of both written and material sources and arguing that the political, religious, and genealogical relevance of the Visigoths is uniquely enduring and pervasive—their story has been continuously...
Brill, 2024. — 474 p. — (Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe 24). Traditional narratives hold that the art and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century were transformed by the arrival of artists, objects, and ideas from northern Europe. The year 1492 has been interpreted as a radical rupture, marking the end of the Islamic presence...
Brill, 2018. — 369 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 66). The last decade has witnessed a striking upsurge of interest in Iberian hagiography. In painting and the fine arts through to poetic and narrative treatments composed in Castilian and Catalan, the legacies of Christ, Mary, and the saints have been approached from a range of perspectives and subjected to...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 460 p. — (Princeton Legacy Library 1043). This work presents the first five hundred of the over 2,000 documents that Robert I. Burns will make available from the registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in Barcelona--the most impressive archives of this kind outside the papal series, and the first extensive use of paper by a...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 598 p. In this volume, a panoramic history of medieval Valencia continues to unfold, as the noted scholar Robert Burns presents a new set of documents from the registers of Jaume the Conqueror at the Crown Archives in Barcelona. Here Burns focuses on 500 government charters covering the years 1264 to 1270, the culmination of the king's...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 600 p. This fourth volume in Robert Burns's celebrated series on the warrior King Jaume the Conqueror's Kingdom of Valencia describes the crucial years of 1270 to 1273, a period during which Jaume continued his consolidation of political power for future territorial expansion. Here in the colonial kingdom that he carved out from the Islamic...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 336 p. The collapse of the Moslem kingdom of Valencia in the second quarter of the thirteenth century marked a major step in the Christian reconquest of Spain. Within half a century, the vast, hostile land the crusaders had won was consolidated into a secure Christian kingdom. Throughout this reconstruction the church of Valencia was everywhere...
Harvard University Press, 1967. — 264 p. The collapse of the Moslem kingdom of Valencia in the second quarter of the thirteenth century marked a major step in the Christian reconquest of Spain. Within half a century, the vast, hostile land the crusaders had won was consolidated into a secure Christian kingdom. Throughout this reconstruction the church of Valencia was everywhere...
University of Birmingham, 2021. — 405 p. Language is, and has always been, a tool for power. This thesis addresses this issue by looking at 13th century Iberia and, particularly, the reign of Alfonso X, king of Castile and Leon (1252 – 1284). As a candidate for the Holy Roman Empire, Alfonso X focused his efforts to obtain the imperial crown in an enterprise that crystalised in...
Falque Rey E., Gil J., Maya Sánchez A. (eds.). — Brepols, 1990. — 296 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 71). Several years ago, a group of researchers from the Department of Latin of the University of Seville, under the direction of Professor J. Gil, undertook the task of editing the Latin chronicles of the Reconquest. Within a few years, work on a number of...
Herausgegeben vom Konstanzer Arbeitskreis für mittelalterliche Geschichte. — Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1971. — 216 p. — (Vorträge und Forschungen - Sonderbände 8). Aus dem Inhalt: Einleitung; Die Frühzeit; Die Zeit der Wanderungen im Römischen Reich; Das tolosanische Reich (418-507); Die Jahrzehnte der Reichskrise (507-568); Die Dynastie Leovigilds (568-603); Die...
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2025. — ix, 168 p. A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad's heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain. This book demonstrates how Muhammad's heavenly journey, as discussed throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries in the western Mediterranean, was the site...
Brill, 2024. — xiv, 220 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 84). This is the first critical edition and study of a unique and important Muslim polemic against Christians and Jews. The Book of Disputation was written in Arabic by a Mudejar (subject Muslim living under Christian rule in late medieval Iberia) and offers new insight into the cultural and intellectual...
Brill, 2018. — 411 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 64). The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia examines the corpus of polemical literature against the Christians and the Jews of the protected Muslims (Mudejars). Commonly portrayed as communities in cultural and religious decay, Mònica Colominas convincingly proves that the...
Durham University, 2020. — 122 p. The anonymous Crónica de Castilla (c. 1300) was written at a time of political instability, when tensions between vying factions of the nobility of the Kingdom of Castile and the Queen Regent, María de Molina, erupted into civil war. Pretenders to the throne threatened her Regency and called into question the legitimacy of her son, Fernando IV....
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020. — x, 237 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 73). A Scholarly Edition of the Gamaliel (Valencia: Juan Jofre, 1525) is a modernized edition of a late medieval devotional that formed part of the narrative tradition of La Vengeance de Nostre-Seigneur, which gained popularity from the twelfth century. The 1525 compendium Gamaliel is...
UCLA, 2018. — 232 p. There is a category in Spanish literature and history that meets in two different genres: historiography and romance. An example of this is found in the manuscript 7583, a revised version of Alfonso X’s Estoria de España. MS 7583 copies the historical events, but it also interrupts historical discourse with three fictional romances seeking to present them...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2015. — 1122 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 58). In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine Galicia’s changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century. With articles on art and architecture; religion and the church;...
Brepols, 2004. — 411 p. — (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 3). Entre les VIIIe et XIe siècles, l’idéologie du royaume d’Oviedo-León n’est dominée ni par la notion de guerre sainte, ni par le concept de Reconquête, mais par celui de restauration. Cette notion participe d’une vision du monde, qui ambitionne de renouer avec le passé romano-gothique,...
University of Michigan, 2021. — 256 p. This dissertation analyzes selected examples of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century written culture to show their engagement with the religious alterity of Islam as an integral part of the origins of the kingdom of Castile. Following an interdisciplinary methodology, it addresses how medieval ideas about astrology, geography, history,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2011. — 448 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 45). The bibliography includes material published from 2007 to 2009. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its first update (Brill 2007) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics, Germanic...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2014. — 400 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 55). The bibliography includes material published from 2010 to 2012. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its updates (Brill 2006, 2008, 2011) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography, Linguistics,...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017. — 340 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 63). The bibliography includes material published from 2013 to 2015. Following on from the first bibliography (Brill, 1988) and its updates (Brill 2006, 2008, 2011, 2014) this volume covers recent literature on: Archaeology, Liturgy, Monasticism, Iberian-Gallic Patristics, Paleography,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 365 p. This book examines the deep and lengthy crisis of legitimacy triggered by the death of Prince Juan of Castile and Aragon in 1497 and the subsequent ascent of Juana I to the throne in 1504. Confined by historiography and myth to the madwoman’s attic, Juana emerges here as a key figure at the heart of a period of tremendous upheaval, reaching...
Amsterdam University Press, 2018. — 296 p. — (Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West). The mendicant friars, especially the Dominicans and the Franciscans, made an enormous impact in thirteenth-century Spain influencing almost every aspect of society. In a revolutionary break from the Church’s past, these religious orders were deeply involved in earthly matters while...
Brill, 2021. — xxx, 697 p. — (Visualising the Middle Ages 13). Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe examines key aspects related to the reception of Ibero-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberia and 19th-century Europe. It challenges prevalent readings of architecture and interiors whose creation was the result of cultural encounters. As Mudéjar and neo-Moorish...
Falque Rey E. (ed.). — Brepols, 1988. — 685 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 70). The Historia Compostellana is primarily a narrative of the deeds of Diego Gelmírez. These deeds narrated encompass the period from 1100 to 1139, that is, the years during which Gelmírez was first bishop (1100-1120) and then archbishop of Compostela until his death (1120-1140)....
Brill Academic Publishers, 1981. — 297 p. — (Medieval Iberian Peninsula 2). Sadly there are but few scholarly resources available pertaining to this particular period of history. At least, there are so few which do not lean heavily towards Christian apologetics for the Inquisition and other such atrocities. But this volumous work provides, data, documentation, analysis, and...
Brill, 2021. — viii, 284 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 225/4; Converso and Morisco Studies 4). Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies series examines the implications of these mass conversions for...
Brill, 2016. — 270 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 197/3; Converso and Morisco Studies 197/3). Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late Medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass...
Brill, 2012. — 302 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions; Converso and Morisco Studies 160/2). Converso and Morisco are the terms applied to those Jews and Muslims who converted to Christianity in large numbers and usually under duress in late medieval Spain. The Converso and Morisco Studies publications will examine the implications of these mass conversions for...
Brill, 1994. — Vol. 1: xix, 552 p.; Vol. 2: iv, 553-1103 p., 27 pl. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 12). As a result of the extreme popularity of the 1992 cloth edition of The Legacy of Muslim Spain, we are now proud to announce the publication of a 2-volume quality paperback edition. The civilisation of medieval Muslim Spain is perhaps the...
Brill, 2022. — xiv, 260 p. — (The Atlantic World 40). In A Dissimulated Trade, Germán Jiménez-Montes sheds light on the role of foreigners in the Spanish empire. Making use of the rich collection of notarial deeds available at the Archivo Histórico Provincial de Sevilla, this book examines how a group of Dutch, Flemish and German merchants came to dominate the supply of timber...
University of Birmingham, 2022. — 345 p. This thesis provides an historiographical study of the Historia Compostellana, a twelfth-century serial record from the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, in the northwest corner of Iberia. Produced in three stages between 1108 and 1148, and covering the years 1088-1139, the Historia Compostellana was a contemporaneously written...
Université d'Angers, 2019. — 518 p. L’onomastique, regroupant l’anthroponymie et la toponymie, connaît depuis une trentaine d’années un succès dans le milieu de la recherche. Dans toutes les disciplines, de nombreuses études sont consacrées à l’anthroponymie. L’objectif de notre travail sur l’anthroponymie léonaise médiévale est de dégager les principaux traits anthroponymiques...
University of Birmingham, 2018. — 328 p. Medieval Iberian literary tradition constitutes a vast corpus of writings with which to study interfaith relations – in particular, Christian attitudes towards Muslims. This thesis focuses on works produced in the thirteenth century under king Alfonso X of Castile-Leon. Scholars have often looked to Alfonso X's poetry and legal texts to...
Penn State University Press, 2023. — 231 p. — (Iberian Encounter and Exchange, 475–1755, 8). During the long reign of Alfonso VIII, Castilian bishops were crusaders, castellans, cathedral canons, and collegiate officers, and they served as powerful intermediaries between the pope and the king of Castile. In A Constellation of Authority, Kyle C. Lincoln traces the careers of a...
Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022. — 702 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law 19). Peter Linehan (+2020) followed his survey of original papal letters in Portugal, Portugalia pontifica 1198-1417 (2013) with the present volume, España Pontifica, that covers papal letters to Spanish recipients from Pope Innocent II (1198-1216) to...
Brill, 2023. — 513 p. — (Medieval Mediterranean 138). 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...
Falque Rey E. (ed.). — Brepols, 2003. — 574 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 74). El Chronicon mundi es una de las obras de Lucas de Tuy, quien fue primero canónigo de San Isidoro de León y posteriormente obispo de Tuy, desde 1239 hasta 1249, por lo que es conocido también como el Tudense. Esta crónica, de inspiración isidoriana, abarca desde los orígenes del...
Falque Rey Emma (ed.). — Brepols, 2009. — 340 p. — (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 74A). Lucas, bishop of Tuy from 1239 until 1249, is chiefly known as the author of the Chronicon mundi, his great contribution to medieval history. But he also wrote De miraculis sancti Isidori, a work of hagiography, and in the decade of 1230-1240 while still a deacon, an...
Routledge, 2024. — 243 p. — (Routledge Research in Art History). This book addresses the reception of Islamic visual culture by the northern Iberian kingdoms, by systematically comparing works of art from both sides and fleshing out their historical context. This study includes figurative and iconographic motifs, architectural forms, and even the spolia from constructions and...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021. — xiv, 296 p. — (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World 79). Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were construed as saintly examples through...
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2021. — 323 p. — (Habsburg Worlds 5). Institutions under royal control included not only the king’s royal residences and the royal chapels attached to them, but also magnificent convent-palaces and individual monasteries belonging to specific religious orders with close affiliations to the Spanish Crown. These Spanish Royal Sites, a...
Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Ranaissance Studies, 2002. — 150 p. — (Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies 236). "The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile" is one of the principal narrative sources for the history of the kingdom of Castile during the reigns of Alfonso VIII (1158 - 1214) and Fernando III (1217 - 1252). This was an important period peninsular...