A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-42546-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 138, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 976 g

Reihe: The Medieval Mediterranean

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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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Liuzzo Scorpo, Antonella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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).