... María Rosa pliegos sueltos al-Andalus medieval Iberia neomedievalism melancholy cultural memory siete infantes ‘Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre.’ —Walter Benjamin Over 600km separates the cities of Burgos and Cordoba, located in the Comunidades...

... of medieval Iberian literature since the nineteenth century, it is also important to ask why return to this story one more time if it risks reinforcing this same canon. What can readers today gain from re-treading the epic when medieval Iberia has so many other linguistically and culturally diverse literary...

... identity beliefs anhedonia dysthymia fasting Mary Virgin Virgin Mary melancholia acedia amor hereos or lovesickness medieval Iberia humoral pathology humorism medical humanities King Alfonso X Juan Manuel Juan Ruiz In this book, I propose a reappraisal of the role that melancholia played...

...This book brings together medieval Iberia, colonial Mexico, and colonial New Mexico through the largely unexplored history of the Virgin Mary as a figure of warfare and cross-cultural encounter. Beginning around 1000, Mary was drawn into warfare between Muslims and Christians in Iberia, emerging...

...The Christians and Muslims of high medieval Iberia were aware that Mary belonged to both Christianity and Islam and realized that their respect for her distinguished them from their Jewish neighbors. Christians and Muslims dealt with the unsettling potential for proximity offered by the “lady...

... the governance of the environment, with far-reaching implications for the environmental and religious history of medieval Iberia....

... in which they were embedded as a step towards finding their place in the society and culture which we use them to describe. I hope to convey some sense of not the literacy but the textuality of early medieval Iberia, its inscription in writing, and thereby provide a point of departure for its historical...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492. Together with the fall of Muslim Granada early that same year, the expulsion of the Jews represented ultimate failure of inter-faith coexistence for which medieval Iberia is often praised. However...