Medieval Spain : culture, conflict, and coexistence : studies in honour of Angus MacKay

Medieval y Ciencias Historiográficas of the same university. He is also the director of the 'Cátedra Alfonso X el Sabio' in El Puerto de Santa María and the editor of the journals Historia. Instituciones. Documentos and Alcanate: Revista de Estudios Alfonsíes (the periodical of the 'Cátedra Alfonso X el Sabio'). He is a Fellow of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenos Letras, and a corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid and of the Real Academia Alfonso X in Murcia, as well as of the Academia de la Historia de Portugal. He is the author of numerous publications, dealing primarily with the repopulation of Andalucía in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and with the reign of Alfonso X el Sabio. Among his most recent books are Diplomatario Andaluz de Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi Continuity and Loss in Medieval Spanish Culture: the Evidence of MS Silos, Archivo Monástico 4....Pages 1-22 Traitors to the Faith? Christian Mercenaries in al-Andalus and the Maghreb, c.1100–1300....Pages 23-45 Jews and Moors in the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X the Learned: a Background Perspective....Pages 46-62 Trading with the ‘Other’: Economic Exchanges between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Late Medieval Northern Castile....Pages 63-78 Catalina of Lancaster, the Castilian Monarchy and Coexistence....Pages 79-122 Alonso de Cartagena’s Libros de Séneca: Disentangling the Manuscript Tradition....Pages 123-147 Laus Urbium: Praise of Two Andalusian Cities in the Mid-Fifteenth Century....Pages 148-159 Peace and War on the Frontier of Granada. Jaén and the Truce of 1476....Pages 160-175 Songbooks as Isabelline Propaganda: the Case of Oñate and Egerton....Pages 176-182 Court Poets at Play: Zaragoza, 1498....Pages 183-201 Conversion in Córdoba and Rome: Francisco Delicado’s La Lozana Andaluza....Pages 202-224 The Making of Isabel de Solis....Pages 225-241 The Conquest of Granada in Nineteenth-Century English and American Historiography....Pages 242-265 "The history and literature of Spain in the Middle Ages were marked by the extraordinary richness and diversity of the cultural components that coexisted, however uneasily, in the Iberian Peninsula in these centuries. Muslims, Christians and Jews enjoyed a variety of relationships, differing according to period and region, that ranged from mutual toleration and cultural exchanges, to wars, pogroms and ethnic cleansings. But divisions did not always run along ethnic or religious lines. Within the three religious traditions there was also much diversity, and this in turn could generate episodes of internal conflict. New cultural currents began to make themselves felt in the fifteenth century, not least from Italian humanism, which manifested themselves in a variety of literary forms. The rich and often violent interplay of cultures that made up medieval Spain from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries is the subject of these essays, contributed by some of the foremost American, British and Spanish scholars of the period."--Jacket Annotation This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain

This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional, and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.

Amongst the leading British hispanists of recent decades, Angus Mackay is exceptional, not so much because he was trained as a historian as in the fact that he has passed his entire scholarly career in university departments of History; principally that of the University of Edinburgh.