Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-31513-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 76, 289 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085) offers an exciting series of essays by leading scholars in Hispanic Studies from across North America and Europe. At its heart is the Reconquista, without doubt the most important and enduring theme of Iberian historiography of the Middle Ages. The innovative studies collected herein, which treat a diverse array of subjects via forensic analyses of charters, chronicles and coins, shed new light on crucial aspects of medieval Iberian socio-economic, political and cultural history. The result is a collection of essays which marks a decisive and bold turning of the page in Iberian medieval studies, as the reality and ideal of Reconquest come under hitherto unparalleled scrutiny.

Contributors are Graham Barrett, Jeffrey Bowman, Alberto Canto, Nicola Clarke, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Jonathan Jarrett, Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Iñaki Martín Viso and Lucy K. Pick.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barton, Simon

Portass, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Contributors

Simon Barton† (1962–2017)

Beyond the Reconquista: an Introductory Essay

Robert Portass

Part 1: Hispania Old and New

1The Life and Death of an Historiographical Folly: The Early Medieval Depopulation and Repopulation of the Duero Basin

Julio Escalona & Iñaki Martín Viso

2Hispania at Home and Abroad

Graham Barrett

Part 2: Hispania Real and Imagined

3A Likely Story: Purpose in Narratives from Charters of the Early Medieval Pyrenees

Jonathan Jarrett

4Counts in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Iberia

Wendy Davies

5The Value of Wealth: Coins and Coinage in Iberian Early Medieval Documents

Eduardo Manzano Moreno & Alberto Canto

Part 3: Writing, Remembering, Representing

6Record, Chronicle and Oblivion: Remembering and Forgetting Elite Women in Medieval Iberia

Jeffrey Bowman

7‘He lashed his mawla with a whip, and shaved his head’: Masculinity and Hierarchy in Early Andalusi Chronicles’

Nicola Clarke

8Islam Concealed and Revealed: The Chronicle of 754 and Beatus of Liébana’s Commentary on the Apocalypse

Lucy K. Pick

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Simon Barton, D.Phil. York (1990), became Professor of History at the University of Central Florida in 2017, having previously worked at the University of Exeter from 1993 to 2017. He was one of the most eminent historians of medieval Spain of his generation. He died in December 2017.

Robert Portass, D.Phil. Oxon (2011), is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Lincoln. He has published extensively on medieval Spanish society, economy and politics, including The Village World of Early Medieval Northern Spain: Local Community and the Land Market (2017).