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  • Isabel Rulesby Barbara F. Weissberger

    University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 75.00

    As queen of Spain, Isabel I of Castile (Isabella the Catholic) laid the foundations for its emergence as the largest empire the West has ever known. This is the first book to examine the formation of the queen?s image, focusing on strategies used to cope with the dissonance created by the combination of her gender and her patriarchal political program. more...

  • Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literatureby Michelle M. Hamilton

    Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 85.00

    This book explores the ways Arabic, Jewish and Christian intellectuals in medieval Iberia (courtiers and clerics) adapt and transform the Andalusi go-between figure in order to represent their own role as cultural intermediaries. more...

  • Death in Babylonby Vincent Barletta

    University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 36.00

    Though Alexander the Great lived more than seventeen centuries before the onset of Iberian expansion into Muslim Africa and Asia, he loomed large in the literature of late medieval and early modern Portugal and Spain. Exploring little-studied chronicles, chivalric romances, novels, travelogues, and crypto-Muslim texts, Vincent Barletta shows that the story of Alexander not only sowed the seeds of Iberian empire but foreshadowed the decline of Portuguese and Spanish influence in the centuries to come. Death in Babylon depicts Alexander as a complex symbol of Western domination, immortality, dissolution, heroism, villainy, and death. But Barletta also shows that texts ostensibly celebrating the conqueror were haunted by failure. Examining... more...

  • Marginal Voicesby Amy I. Aronson-Friedman; Gregory B. Kaplan

    BRILL 2012; US$ 166.00

    This collection of essays reveals the diversity of the impact on late medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature of the socio-religious dichotomy that came to exist between conversos (New Christians), who were perceived as inferior because of their Jewish descent, and Old Christians, who asserted the superiority of their pure Christian lineage. more...

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