In and of the Mediterranean : Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (335 pages)
- Hispanic Issues Series .
- Hispanic Issues Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction -- 1. Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval "Spain," and the Mediterranean: An Historiographical Op-Ed -- 2. The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World: A Comparative Perspective -- 3. The Princess and the Palace: On Hawwa' bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family -- 4. Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey: Seafaring and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio -- 5. Between the Seas: Apolonio and Alexander -- 6. The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean: Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner's Crònica -- 7. Empire in the Old World: Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479-1516 -- 8. Singing the Scene of History in Fernão Lopes -- 9. The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes: Historiography and the "Marvelous" in the Sixteenth Century -- 10. Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora -- 11. Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza -- 12. Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context: Liberality and Deception in Cervantes's El amante liberal -- 13. Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes's Drama of Captivity -- Afterword. Ebbs and Flows: Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean Perspective -- Contributors -- Index.
What it meant to be Mediterranean in medieval and early modern Iberia.
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Group identity -- Iberian Peninsula -- History. Group identity -- Mediterranean Region -- History. Iberian Peninsula -- Relations -- Mediterranean Region. Mediterranean Region -- Relations -- Iberian Peninsula. Iberian Peninsula -- Civilization.