Medieval Iberia Changing Societies and Cultures in Contact and Transition [Hardcover]

Medieval Iberia was rich in sociolinguistic and cultural diversity. This volume explores the culture, history, literature and language of the Peninsula in an attempt to understand its cultural-political complexity and its legacy. Principal themes include the representation of minority groups in the community; the challenge of social contact that could bring mutual absorption of influence or conflict; the effects of linguistic interaction and development; and the dissemination of cultural and scientific knowledge within and beyond the borders of the Peninsula. Modern interpretations of Medieval Iberia are neither static nor definitive in this kaleidoscopic field of investigation. EDITORS: Ivy A. Corfis and Ray Harris-Northall are Professors of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Pablo Ancos, William J. Courtney, Thomas D. Cravens, Frank Dom?nguez, Noel Fallows, Charles F. Fraker, E. Michael Gerli, Kristin Neumayer, Stanley G. Payne, Joel Rini, Joseph T. Snow, Michael SolomonAn exploration of the cultural-political complexity of the medieval Peninsula.IntroductionThe Converso Condition: New Approaches to an Old Question - E. Michael GerliSpeaking through Many Voices: Polyphony in the Writings of Teresa de Cartagena - Chains of Iron, Gold and Devotion: Images of Earthly and Divine Justice in the Memorias of Do?a Leonor L?pez de Cordoba - Frank A. Dom?nguezVisigoths and Asturians Reinterpreted: The Spanish Grand Narrative Restored ? - Stanley G. PayneAgainst the Arabs: Propaganda and Paradox in Medieval Castile - Noel FallowsConquest and Conversion in the Hispanic Chivalric Romance: The Case of Reinaldos de Montalv?n - Ivy A. CorfisHermes Trismegistus in General Estoria II - Charles F. FrakerPharmaceutical Fictions: Celestina's Laboratory and the Sixteenth-Century Medical Imaginary - Michael SolomonSpanish and Portuguese Scholars at the University of Paris in the Fourteent h and Fifteenth Centuries: The Exchange of Ideas and Texts - Willialcð