A Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton (Medieval Mediterranean, 138)

A Plural Peninsula embodies and upholds Professor Simon Barton's influential scholarly legacy, eschewing rigid disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on textual, archaeological, visual and material culture, the sixteen studies in this volume offer new and important insights into the historical, socio-political and cultural dynamics characterising different, yet interconnected areas within Iberia and the Mediterranean. The structural themes of this volume --the creation and manipulation of historical, historiographical and emotional narratives; changes and continuity in patterns of exchange, cross-fertilisation and the recovery of tradition; and the management of conflict, crisis, power and authority-- are also particularly relevant for the postmedieval period, within and beyond Iberia. Contributors are Janna Bianchini, Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Simon R. Doubleday, Ana Echevarría Arsuaga, Maribel Fierro, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Fernando Luis Corral, Therese Martin, Iñaki Martín Viso, Amy G. Remensnyder, Maya Soifer Irish, -Teresa Tinsley, Sonia Vital Fernández, Alun Williams, Teresa Witcombe, and Jamie Wood. See inside the book The Restless Sea: Storm, Shipwreck and the Mediterranean, c.1000–1700 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 12 Figures 13 Notes on Contributors 14 Introduction: Simon Barton’s Scholarly Legacy: Challenging Historiographical Narratives in Medieval Mediterranean and Iberian Studies 20 Part 1 Emotional Narratives: Pragmatism, Symbolism and Performance 32 Chapter 1 The Restless Sea: Storm, Shipwreck and the Mediterranean, c.1000–1700 34 Chapter 2 A Peninsula in Flames: War and Emotions in the Cantigas de Santa María 89 Chapter 3 ‘Emotional Diplomacy’: Trust and Political Communication in Thirteenth-Century Iberia 114 Part 2 Reassessing Historical and Historiographical Narratives 142 Chapter 4 Adapting History to Modern Values? Re-evaluating Vellido Dolfos 144 Chapter 5 Praying for Conquest in Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Oratio in tempore belli adversus Saracenos 172 Chapter 6 Reframing ‘Reconquista’. Hernando de Baeza’s Take on the Conquest of Granada 202 Part 3 Exchanges, Tradition and Cross-Fertilisation: Change and Continuity 232 Chapter 7 The View from the Edge: Gallaecia and the Byzantine Mediterranean in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries 234 Chapter 8 A Forma Mesquite in Formam Ecclesiae: Toledo, Between Rodrigo and Ibn Hud 258 Chapter 9 A Christian Iberian Attack on Twelfth-Century Medina? Keys to Understanding an Unusual Story 294 Chapter 10 Jewish Officials at Royal Courts in al-Andalus and Castile (Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries): Continuities and Disjunctions 324 Part 4 Managing Conflict: Social, Physical and Imagined Boundaries 348 Chapter 11 Sex, Theft, and Violence: Conflict and Local Society in the Mountains of León around the Year 1000 350 Chapter 12 The Aristocracy against the King in the Twelfth Century: Rebellion as Opposition to Alfonso VII “Imperator Hispaniae” 370 Chapter 13 Advancing Dogs and Rushing Lions: Animals and the Imagery of Conflict in the Poem of Almería 397 Part 5 Authority, Leadership, Gender and Power Management 420 Chapter 14 Once and Future Queen: The Portrait Coinage of Urraca “Regina Hispaniae” (r. 1109–1126) 422 Chapter 15 Between Queen Regnant and Queen Consort: Berenguela of Castile, Beatrice of Swabia and the Nuances of Queenship 454 Chapter 16 Speaking Truth to Power: Authority, Social Status, and Gender in Thirteenth-Century Castilian Witness Testimony 476 Index 500