Full Description
The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies takes an important place in the scholarly landscape by bringing together a compelling collection of essays that reflect the evolving ways in which researchers think and write about the Iberian Peninsula.
Features include:
A comprehensive approach to the different languages and cultural traditions of the Iberian Peninsula;
Five chronological sections spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the 21st century;
A state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline with promising areas for future research;
An array of topics of an interdisciplinary nature (history and politics, language and literature, cultural studies and visual arts), focusing on the cultural distinctiveness of Iberian traditions;
New perspectives and avenues of inquiry that aim to promote a comparative mode within Iberian Studies and Hispanism.
The fifty authoritative, original essays will provide readers with a diverse cross-section of texts that will enrich their knowledge of Iberian Studies from an international perspective.
Contents
PART I - Medieval Iberia (8th-15th Centuries)
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
1 Festive Traditions in Castile and Aragon in the Late Middle Ages: Ceremonies and Symbols of Power TEOFILO F. RUIZ 2 Faith and Footpaths: Pilgrimage in Medieval Iberia GEORGE D. GREENIA 3 Before the Reconquista: Frontier Relations in Medieval Iberia, 718-1031 JONATHAN JARRETT 4 The Faiths of Abraham in Medieval Iberia JOHN EDWARDS 5 Medieval Iberian Cultures in Contact: Iberian Cultural Production as Translation and Adaptation MICHELLE M. HAMILTON
Literature and Visual Culture
6 Court and Convent: Senses and Spirituality in Hispanic Medieval Women's Writing LESLEY K. TWOMEY 7 An Interstitial History of Medieval Iberian Poetry DAVID A. WACKS 8 Revisiting the History of Medieval Translation in the Iberian Peninsula JULIO-CÉSAR SANTOYO 9 Subjectivity and Hermeneutics in Medieval Iberia: The Example of the Libro de buen amor ROBERT FOLGER 10 Patrons, Artists and Audiences in the Making of Visual Culture in Medieval Iberia (11th-13th Centuries) MANUEL CASTIÑEIRAS
PART II - The Iberian Peninsula in the Golden Age (16th and 17th Centuries)
History, Politics and Cultural Studies
11 The Early Modern Iberian Empires: Emulation, Alliance, Competition ALEXANDER PONSEN AND ANTONIO FEROS 12 The Iberian Inquisitions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Between Coercion and Accommodation HELEN RAWLINGS 13 The Way Behind and the Way Ahead: Cartography and the State of Spain in Cabeza de Vaca's Relación KATHRYN M. MAYERS 14 Purity and Impurity of Blood in Early Modern Iberia
