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Isabel Rules
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 75.00As 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 Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 95.00This 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 Babylon
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 36.00Though 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... more...
Marginal Voices
BRILL 2012; US$ 166.00This 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...
The `Mester de Clerecía'
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 99.00The term mester de clerecía (clerical ministry or service) applies to a group of narrative poems (epics, hagiography, romances) composed by university-trained clerics for the edification and entertainment of the predominantly illiterate laity. These cleri more...
Medieval and Renaissance Spain and Portugal
Boydell & Brewer 2006; US$ 90.00The career of Arthur L-F. Askins is celebreated in a panorama of current scholarship on the Iberian peninsula during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. more...
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