In and of the Mediterranean medieval and early modern Iberian studies / Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernandez, editors.

Other author Hamilton, Michelle, 1969-
Other author Silleras-Fernandez, Nuria.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2014.
Descriptionxxvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Group identity--Iberian Peninsula. --History.
Group identity--Mediterranean Region. --History.
Spanish literature--History and criticism.
Portuguese literature--History and criticism.
Iberian Peninsula--Relations. --Mediterranean Region.
Mediterranean Region--Relations. --Iberian Peninsula.
Iberian Peninsula--Civilization.
Iberian Peninsula--Historiography.
Iberian Peninsula--Intellectual life.

SeriesHispanic issues ; 41
Contents Iberia and the Mediterranean : An Introduction / Michelle M. Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez -- Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval "Spain," and the Mediterranean : An Historiographical Op-Ed / Brian A. Catlos -- The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World : A Comparative Perspective / Gerard Wiegers -- The Princess and the Palace : On Hawwa' bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family / Manuela Marin -- Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey : Seafaring and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio / Nicholas M. Parmley -- Between the Seas : Apolonio and Alexander / Simone Pinet -- The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean : Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner's Cronica / Vicente Lledó-Guillem -- Empire in the Old World : Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479-1516 / Andrew W. Devereux -- Singing the Scene of History in Fernao Lopes / Josiah Blackmore -- The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes : Historiography and the "Marvelous" in the Sixteenth Century / Eleazar Gutwirt -- Reading Amadis in Constantinople : Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora / David A. Wacks -- Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza / Ryan D. Giles -- Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context : Liberality and Deception in Cervantes's El amante liberal / Luis F. Aviles -- Intimate Strangers : Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes's Drama of Captivity / Barbara Fuchs -- Afterword: Ebbs and Flows : Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean Perspective / Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini.
Scope and content "The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean"-- Provided by publisher.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014013075
ISBN9780826520296 (hardback)
ISBN9780826520302 (paperback)

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