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  1. Introduction
  2. What is meant by “medieval Spain”? Usually, “medieval” is understood as roughly the millennium between 500 CE and 1500 CE, and these dates fit reasonably well with political eras in the Iberian Peninsula, from the arrival of the Visigoths in the late 5th century to the end of the reigns of Ferdinand and Isabella in the early 16th century. For the sake of simplicity, the basic structure of this article is chronological. The second term, “Spain,” is much more complex. The modern country traces its roots to the medieval kingdoms and counties of Galicia, León, Castile, Aragón, Navarre, Catalonia, Valencia, Murcia, and Granada. All of these entities contributed to what is now modern Spain and Spanish (Castilian), although other regional identities and languages have also survived. The sections of this article on Christian Spain include the medieval regions noted above. Although Portugal also emerged during the medieval period, becoming a kingdom in the 12th century, it is usually not counted as part of medieval Spain and is not covered in this bibliography. Adding complexity is the fact that, for nearly eight hundred years, much of the Iberian Peninsula was under Islamic rule, with a population that was predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking. Muslim Spain is generally referred to by the Arabic name “al-Andalus.” Studies on the history of al-Andalus are considered separately in this bibliography. Alongside Christians and Muslims, there was also a significant Jewish population living in medieval Spain, both in Christian and Muslim regions. Because of this, medieval Spain is sometimes called “the land of three religions” (or tres culturas). Scholarship on the Jews of medieval Spain is its own field, but study of the coexistence of the three groups (often known as convivencia) has gained much attention. Studies on relations between the three cultures are considered in the section A Land of Three Cultures. Works on the Spanish Inquisition, conversos (Jews converted to Christianity), and moriscos (Muslims converted to Christianity) are not included in this article because these issues were largely phenomena of the early modern period. Languages in medieval Spain were also complicated. People spoke and wrote in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and––increasingly––in medieval versions of Castilian, Catalan, and other Romance vernaculars. Because of this, one finds many different spellings for names and places, making it difficult to be completely correct and consistent, especially when translating these into English.
  3. General Overviews
  4. Full coverage of the history of medieval Spain is difficult to do in one volume, since the period is long, the medieval peninsula and its inhabitants were highly diverse, and not all scholars even agree about what “Spain” means. In general, most of the authors noted below include coverage of both Muslim and Christian history, but most exclude the history of Portugal. Two comprehensive histories from the Visigothic period until Ferdinand and Isabella are O’Callaghan 1975, a weighty English survey of medieval Spanish history, and Álvarez Palenzuela 2002, an edited collection, in Spanish, by multiple authors. For briefer coverage, Jackson 1972 is a popular survey that includes plenty of illustrations, and Reilly 1993 covers medieval Spanish history from the late Roman period until the Catholic Kings in just over two hundred pages. For a somewhat more specialized approach, Glick 2005 provides one of the most thoughtful treatments of early medieval Spain, both Christian and Muslim, with special emphasis on the history of technology and science. For the general reader interested in the Crown of Aragón, the short history Bisson 1986 is an essential introduction. Rucquoi 2002 is a nifty illustrated handbook in French that surveys Christian and Muslim regions by topic rather than by chronology.
  5. Álvarez Palenzuela, Vicente Ángel, ed. Historia de España de la edad media. Barcelona: Ariel, 2002.
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  7. Each chapter is written by a different scholar, and each concludes with a bibliography for the particular topic. Largely political, but also good coverage of religion, culture, law, economy, society, intellectual developments, for the entire medieval period. In Spanish.
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  9. Bisson, Thomas N. The Medieval Crown of Aragón: A Short History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
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  11. Bisson traces the history of Aragón and Catalonia before their union, through the creation of the “Crown of Aragón,” and into the 16th century. Covering mainly political history, this short volume is one of the few English surveys of the region.
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  13. Glick, Thomas. Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages. 2d ed. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2005.
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  15. Glick pays special attention to culture, technology, science, economy, and society, in Christian and Muslim regions, with evidence from texts and archeological evidence. The first edition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979) is available online. The second edition is considerably expanded and the bibliography is brought up to date.
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  17. Jackson, Gabriel. The Making of Medieval Spain. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
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  19. The author concentrates mainly on Christian Spain, and on social, economic, and cultural history. Although now somewhat dated, this brief survey is noteworthy for its many pictures.
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  21. O’Callaghan, Joseph F. A History of Medieval Spain. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1975.
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  23. At over seven hundred pages, this comprehensive survey of medieval Spanish history in English has become an essential reference work. This readable but fairly traditional treatment is particularly strong for the history of Castile and the later medieval period. Coverage is supplemented by useful genealogical tables and maps.
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  25. Reilly, Bernard F. The Medieval Spains. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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  27. The author emphasizes the diversity of peninsular history and its regional variations, but coverage is somewhat patchy, given the volume’s brevity, and most attention goes to Christian kingdoms. In English, this is suited to general readers.
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  29. Rucquoi, Adeline. L’Espagne médiévale. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2002.
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  31. Packed with pictures and organized by topic, this handy book can be dipped into rather than read all the way through. Little on political history, but excellent sections on social life, family, the arts, literature, religion, architecture, economy, and urban life. In French.
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  33. Reference Works
  34. The reference works listed here include bibliographies and guides. Collins 1998, an archeologically focused guide to medieval sites, is a cross between a handbook for tourists and a historical reference work, while Gerli 2003 is a large one-volume encyclopedia devoted to medieval Iberian topics. Encinas Moral 2005 provides an extensive chronology of events in Muslim Spain. For institutional and legal history, the reference guide Valdeavellano 1968 introduces medieval Spanish institutions, and Barrero García and Alonso Martín 1989 ts medieval texts concerning urban law and local legal codes. Among bibliographical works, Dunn and Davidson 1994, on the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage, covers both medieval and later periods, and the short bibliography Mérida Jiménez and Weissberger 2002 is an invaluable resource for readers interested in Iberian women’s history.
  35. Barrero García, Ana María, and María Luz Alonso Martín, eds. Textos de derecho local español en la edad media. Catálogo de fueros y costums municipales. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1989.
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  37. Alphabetical listing, by locality, of the privileges, charters, and fueros granted to medieval Iberian towns, with information on editions of these texts. In Spanish.
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  39. Collins, Roger. Spain: An Oxford Archaeological Guide. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
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  41. This handbook describes Spanish historical sites (mainly Roman, Visigothic, and medieval) in alphabetical order. The emphasis is on architecture and material remains, and there are plenty of pictures, maps, and plans. A useful reference both for travelers and sedentary researchers.
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  43. Dunn, Maryjane, and Linda Kay Davidson. The Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1994.
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  45. This wide-ranging bibliography includes books in many languages relating to the Santiago pilgrimage, with annotations in English. Medieval texts are included, but most works date from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Both primary and secondary sources are listed, and many different genres and fields are covered.
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  47. Encinas Moral, Ángel Luis. Cronología histórica de al-Andalus. Madrid: Miraguano Ediciones, 2005.
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  49. Handy year-by-year listing of events of relevance to Muslim Spain, from 570 CE to 1667 CE. In Spanish.
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  51. Gerli, Michael, ed. Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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  53. An extensive array of topics relating to medieval Spain is covered in one large volume, with short entries by many different scholars. This encyclopedia is invaluable for quick reference, but somewhat patchy in its coverage.
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  55. Mérida Jiménez, Rafael, and Barbara Weissberger. Women in Medieval Iberia: A Selected Bibliography. Eugene: University of Oregon, 2002.
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  57. This short bibliography is very useful, but somewhat hard to find. Although Muslim and Jewish women are included, there is most coverage for women in Christian Spain and Portugal. The emphasis is strongly literary.
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  59. Valdeavellano, Luis G. Curso de historia de las instituciones españolas de los orígenes al final de la Edad Media. Madrid: Revista de Occidente, 1968.
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  61. Extensive reference work with chronological chapters devoted to Iberian institutions (economic, social, political, legal, military, etc.) throughout the medieval period. Mostly devoted to Christian Spain, but there is a final chapter on Muslim Spain. Although the analysis is dated, the information remains very useful and there is a good bibliography. In Spanish.
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  63. Primary Sources
  64. There are many important medieval Iberian primary sources in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, and Romance vernaculars. Many of these are available in individual editions and edited collections, either in their original languages or in translation. It is impossible to include all of these in this brief article, and individual works and authors are generally easy to track down elsewhere. The sections below provide information on Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sources in translation, followed by sections on original language resources. Coverage is selective and concentrates on sources of interest to historians. Some primary source materials are also listed in other sections. To start out, a few translated collections include sources from multiple medieval Iberian languages and cultures. Constable 2011 surveys the entire medieval period with English translations by many different authors. The three-volume Smith, et al. 1988–1992 covers the same period and provides texts in both English and the original languages. Cowans 2003 contains some later materials that may be of interest to medievalists. Sánchez-Albornoz 1986 collects texts concerning Muslim Spain, some written by Muslims and others by Christians, in Spanish translation.
  65. Constable, Olivia Remie, ed. Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
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  67. Excerpts from medieval Iberian sources, in English translation, spanning the period from the Visigoths until the early 16th century. Sources are chosen to reflect the viewpoints of Muslims, Christians, and Jews, both within their own societies and regarding each other.
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  69. Cowans, Jon. Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
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  71. This collection of Iberian documents pertains to a later period, both in Spain and the New World, and includes writings by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Many of these materials, especially those from the 15th and 16th centuries, may be useful to medievalists.
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  73. Sánchez-Albornoz, Claudio. La España musulmana. 7th ed. 2 vols. Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1986.
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  75. These two volumes, in Spanish, provide translations of a broad selection of texts relating to Muslim Spain from 711 until 1492. Most texts are from Arabic (making this a good introduction to the range of Andalusi authors), but some are Castilian. Translations are from various sources, and vary in quality.
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  77. Smith, Colin, C. P. Melville, and Ahmad Ubaydli, eds. and trans. Christians and Moors in Spain. 3 vols. Warminster, UK: Aris and Phillips, 1988–1992.
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  79. This three-volume collection covers peninsular history from 711 to 1614, with brief selections from primary sources in their original languages and facing English translations. Volumes I and II cover Latin and vernacular Christian texts; Volume III covers Arabic texts.
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  81. Christian Sources in Translation
  82. This section concentrates on chronicles and legal texts from Christian Spain, all in English translation. Wolf 1990 includes early medieval materials, from the Visigothic period to the Asturian chronicles of the 10th century. Barton 2000 translates four 12th-century chronicles from Castile and León. The Chronicle of Alfonso X in Thacker and Escobar 2002 and Book of Deeds of James I (James I 2003) cover the reigns of individual kings in the 13th century. The latter is one of the four so-called “great Catalan chronicles” of the Crown of Aragón; the Chronicle of Muntaner (Muntaner 1920–1921) is another. Legal materials include the great Castilian law code, the Siete Partidas (Scott 2001), the Usatges of Barcelona (Kagay 1994) (a foundation text for Catalan law), and the Code of Cuenca (Powers 2000) (an important urban charter).
  83. Barton, Simon, trans. The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.
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  85. Descriptions and English translations of four important 12th-century Latin chronicles: Historia Silense, Chronicon Regum Legionensium, Historia Roderici, and Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris.
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  87. James I. The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon: A Translation of the Medieval Catalan Llibre dels Fets. Translated by Damian Smith and Helena Buffery. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2003.
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  89. English translation of the Catalan Llibre dels Fets, often described as an “autobiography” by James I of Aragón, describing his life from his birth in 1208 to his death in 1276, with extensive attention to his political and military activities.
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  91. Kagay, Donald J., trans. The Usatges of Barcelona: The Fundamental Law of Catalonia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
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  93. This 12th-century law code combined customary and oral law with written Visigothic and Roman legal traditions to create the fundamental text for later law in Catalonia. This volume provides both an English translation and a short study of the text.
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  95. Muntaner, Ramon. The Chronicle of Muntaner. 2 vols. Translated by Anna Goodenough. London: Hakluyt Society, 1920–1921.
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  97. Ramon Muntaner (b. c. 1270–d. 1336) surveys political and military events in the Crown of Aragón in the 13th and 14th centuries. This old-fashioned translation remains useful. This is one of the four “great Catalan chronicles,” together with the work of Bernat Desclot, the Llibre dels Fets, and the Chronicle of Pere III.
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  99. Powers, James F., trans. The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
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  101. This code (or fuero) was granted to Cuenca after its conquest by the Castilian king Alfonso VIII in 1177. The charter granted extensive rights to the newly Christian town, with particular attention to security and privileges that would attract new settlers. Similar charters were later granted to many other Castilian towns.
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  103. Scott, Samuel Parsons, trans. Las Siete Partidas. 5 vols. Edited by Robert I. Burns. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.
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  105. This massive Castilian law code was commissioned by Alfonso X and completed in the early 14th century. It was translated into English in 1931. This five-volume new edition, with commentary by Burns, is an invaluable resource for many aspects of medieval Castilian life and society.
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  107. Thacker, Shelby, and José Escobar, trans. Chronicle of Alfonso X. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
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  109. This is the only extended chronicle describing the reign of Alfonso X, el Sabio (the Wise). It was written in the early 14th century, as one of a trio of Castilian chronicles describing the reigns of Alfonso X (1252–1284), Sancho IV, and Fernando IV. Only Alfonso’s chronicle is translated here.
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  111. Wolf, Kenneth Baxter, trans. Conquerors and Chroniclers of Early Medieval Spain. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 1990.
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  113. English translations of four early medieval Spanish Latin chronicles: the Chronicle of John of Biclaro; Isidore of Seville’s History of the Goths; the Chronicle of 754; and the Chronicle of Alfonso III.
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  115. Muslim and Jewish Sources in Translation
  116. Selected works include historical, legal, and literary materials, translated from Arabic and Hebrew, into English, French, or Spanish. Literary works include two poetry anthologies, one from Hebrew (Cole 2007) and the other from Arabic (Monroe 1974), and collections of stories by the Muslim authors Ibn Hazm (Ibn Hazm 1953) and Ibn ʿArabi (Ibn ʿArabi 1971), and the Jewish author Judah al-Harizi (al-Harizi 2001). Representing Arabic chronicles are Ibn Hayyan’s history of the reign of the caliph ʿAbd al-Rahman III (translated into Spanish in Ibn Hayyan 1981), and the personal memoir of ʿAbd Allah b. Buluggin (ʿAbd Allah b. Buluggin 1986), the last Zirid ruler of Granada. The hisba text (a manual for market inspectors) written by Ibn ʿAbdun is also included, in French translation (Lévi-Provençal 2001).
  117. ʿAbd Allah b. Buluggin. The Tibyān: Memoirs of ʿAbd Allāh b. Buluggīn, Last Zīrid Amīr of Granada. Translated by Amin T. Tibi. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1986.
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  119. This English translation of the autobiographical chronicle of the last ruler of Taifa Granada describes events in his kingdom during the 11th century, until the arrival of the Almoravids. The account contains fascinating details of palace life, political intrigue, and society in contemporary al-Andalus.
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  121. Cole, Peter, trans. The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950–1492. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
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  123. Extensive collection of medieval Jewish poetry from the Iberian Peninsula rendered in lyrical English translations that capture the beauty of the original works.
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  125. al-Harizi, Judah. The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain. Translated by David S. Segal. Portland, OR: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2001.
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  127. Collection of rhymed stories, by the Jewish Andalusi author Judah al-Harizi (1170–1235). These intriguing and instructive tales follow the model of the Arabic maqamat stories.
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  129. Ibn ʿArabi. The Sufis of Andalusia: The Rūh al-quds and al-Durrat al-fākhirah of Ibn ʿArabī. Translated by R. W. J. Austin. London: Allen and Unwin, 1971.
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  131. This collection of mini-biographies describes famous Sufis in Muslim Spain, and contains many interesting details not only about religious belief and practice, but also daily life and personal histories. The English translation combines material from two treatises by the Andalusi scholar and Sufi master Ibn ‘Arabi (1165–1240).
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  133. Ibn Hayyan. Cronica del Califa ʿAbdarrahman III al-Nāsir entre los ańos 912 y 942 (al-Muqtabis V). Translated by María Jesús Viguera and Federico Corriente. Zaragoza, Spain: Anubar Ediciones, 1981.
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  135. Ibn Hayyan of Cordoba (987–1075) was one of the most important historians of the Umayyad period. This Spanish translation of the fifth volume of his chronicle, the Muqtabis, describes the early 10th century, and provides critical information not only on Andalusi affairs but also about relations with the Christian north.
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  137. Ibn Hazm. The Ring of the Dove. Translated by A. J. Arberry. London: Luzac, 1953.
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  139. This charming collection of stories by ʿAli b. Ahmad ibn Hazm of Cordoba (994–1064) is ostensibly about love and secular life, but many readers have seen deeper allegorical intentions in the work. Ibn Hazm was primarily a theologian and jurist, and this book represents his only work of elegant literature.
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  141. Lévi-Provençal, Evariste. Séville musulmane au début du XIIe siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ‘Abdun sur la vie urbaine et le corps de métiers. Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose, 2001.
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  143. This is a translation and study of Ibn ‘Abdun’s handbook for market inspectors in Muslim Seville in the 12th century. This text contains a wealth of social, economic, cultural, and religious information. This French translation was originally published in 1947.
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  145. Monroe, James T., trans. Hispano-Arabic Poetry: A Student Anthology. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974.
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  147. A collection of Arabic poetry, with facing English translations, by the major Andalusi poets. Very useful survey of the range of poetic genres in Muslim Spain.
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  149. Christian Original Language Source Collections
  150. There are many different kinds of primary sources from medieval Christian Spain, in both Latin and vernacular. As well as editions of individual texts and authors, there are a number of important source collections. Some general collections are now electronic, including the online Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, which contains digitized Spanish literary and historical texts from all periods, and the collection of medieval Spanish sources in Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies Spanish Series, on CD-ROM, produced by the Hispanic Society of America. Among older print collections, the series Memorial histórico español has been published since 1851 and contains much medieval material. Other collections are more regionally or topically focused, such as the recent series Fuentes medievales castellano-leonesas (devoted to church records from Burgos) and the 19th-century series Colección de Documentos inéditos del Archivo General de la Corona de Aragón (publishing documents from the archive in Barcelona). Diplomatarium (Burns 1985–2007) collects the charters of King James I relating to Valencia. Legal materials include collections of urban charters published in Muñoz y Romero 1847 and the proceedings of medieval parliaments (Danvila y Collado 1861–1903). Most of these editions are older, and do not reflect the rigor of modern scholarly editing norms.
  151. Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes.
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  153. Launched in 1999 by the University of Alicante, the Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes comprises a massive open-access collection, all readable and searchable online. Most texts are postmedieval, but the vast inventory nonetheless contains many medieval materials. It includes texts from the Biblioteca de Autores Españoles series.
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  155. Burns, Robert Ignatius, ed. Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: The Registered Charters of its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257–1276. 4 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985–2007.
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  157. Robert Burns devoted his career to studying James I’s campaigns in Valencia. The first volume of the Diplomatarium discusses the body of texts, while volumes 2–4 contain editions of James’s charters up to 1273, three years before the king’s death. The editor’s death in 2008 left the series unfinished.
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  159. Colección de Documentos inéditos del Archivo General de la Corona de Aragón. 41 vols. Edited by Próspero de Bofarull y Mascaró, et al. Barcelona: J. E. Montfort, 1847–1910.
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  161. The archive in Barcelona contains one of the richest collections of medieval documents in Europe. This project to publish its materials lasted for over sixty years but remains incomplete. The series contains both primary sources and secondary studies. Despite the antiquated editions, this is a useful resource.
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  163. Danvila y Collado, Manuel, ed. Cortes de los Antiguos Reinos de León y de Castilla. 5 vols. Madrid: M. de Rivadeneyra, 1861–1903.
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  165. These volumes contain proceedings of parliamentary-type gatherings (councils and cortes) from Castilian and Leonese cities, from the 11th to the 16th century. The Real Academia de la Historia sponsored this work and also a parallel collection, Cortes de los Antiguos Reinos de Aragón y de Valencia y Principado de Cataluña.
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  167. Fuentes medievales castellano-leonesas. Edited by Juan José García González and F. Javier Peña Pérez. Burgos, Spain: J. M. Garrido Garrido, 1982–.
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  169. This ongoing series aims to publish the medieval documents of ecclesiastical institutions in the region of Burgos and beyond. Many different types of archival materials are included. This project is overseen by the Department of Medieval History of the Colegio Universitario in Burgos.
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  171. Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies Spanish Series. Madison, WI, and New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1975–.
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  173. This extensive ongoing series of medieval Iberian literary and historical texts and concordances was originally produced on paper and microfiche and is now available on CD-ROM. First published by the University of Wisconsin, it is currently published by the Hispanic Society of America in New York. Catalogue available online.
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  175. Memorial histórico español. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 1851–.
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  177. This irregular series of documents, texts, and studies was sponsored by the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid from the 1850s. Although it covers all periods, the series includes important Spanish sources from the Middle Ages. Despite its age, this remains the only source for editions of some texts.
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  179. Muñoz y Romero, Tomás. Colección de Fueros Municipales y Carta Pueblas de los Reinos de Castilla, León, Corona de Aragón y Navarra. Madrid: José María Alonzo, 1847.
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  181. Extensive collection of charters and privileges granted to medieval Spanish towns. Despite the comprehensive title, Muñoz’s coverage is not actually complete, since many more such documents have been found (and some edited) since 1847. But this work remains valuable.
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  183. Muslim Original Languages Sources
  184. In contrast to the situation for Christian Spanish texts, there are few collections of Arabic and Muslim source materials. Among these are the Bibliotheca arabico-hispana, a series of Andalusi biographical dictionaries, and the collection of late medieval Mudejar legal texts, Real Academia de la Historia 1853. Hinojosa Montalvo 2002 also collects texts relating to Mudejars. In terms of works by individual authors, there are many works to choose from, in many different fields. The selection below concentrates on historical and legal works. Only one volume of Ibn Hayyan’s history of the Umayyads, the Muqtabis, has been translated (Ibn Hayyan 1971), but other volumes have been edited. The Bayān al-mughrib, by the historian Ibn Idhari, is an important source for later Andalusi history, but has never been translated (Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi 1948). The same is true for the work of Ibn al-Khatib, a historian of the Nasrid period (Ibn al-Khatib 1973–1977). Concerning Islamic law, the enormous late medieval compilation of legal rulings (fatwas) by the jurist al-Wansharisi (d. 1508) is invaluable (al-Wansharisi 1981–1983). The 10th-century treatise by Ibn al-ʿAttar, on writing notarial contracts (Ibn al-ʿAttar 1983), is useful for legal, economic, and social history. Unless otherwise noted, the works listed below are in Arabic.
  185. Bibliotheca arabico-hispana. 10 vols. Edited by Francisco Codera y Zaidín and Julián Ribera. Madrid: various imprints, 1882–1895.
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  187. This collection includes biographical dictionaries (works describing the lives of Andalusi scholars) by Ibn al-Abbar, Ibn Bashkuwal, Ibn al-Faradi, and others. Very useful for social and religious history.
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  189. Hinojosa Montalvo, José, ed. Los mudéjares: La voz del Islam en la España cristiana. 2 vols. Teruel, Spain: Centro de Estudios Mudéjares, 2002.
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  191. Although the documents in this collection are mostly of Christian origin, written in Latin and vernacular, they all deal with Muslims living under Christian rule (Mudejars). The first volume is a monograph, but the second volume presents a broad selection of texts from different Iberian regions, organized according to topic.
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  193. Ibn al-ʿAttar. Formulario notarial hispano-árabe por el alfaquí y notario cordobés Ibn a -ʿAʿʿār (s.X). Edited by Pedro Chalmeta and F. Corriente. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura, 1983.
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  195. This is a treatise containing formulas for writing notarial contracts, organized by legal categories (marriage, sales, etc.). Although the text is inherently prescriptive, it provides insights into Andalusi daily life and legal affairs.
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  197. Ibn Hayyan, Abu Marwan Hayyan. Al-Muqtabis min anbā ahl al-Andalus (Muqtabis II). Edited by M. A. Makki. Cairo: s.n., 1971.
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  199. Ibn Hayyan of Cordoba (d. 1075) is the most important historian for the Umayyad and Taifa period. Much of his main work, the Muqtabis, has been lost, but volumes 2, 3, 5, and 7 have been edited. Titles and editors vary (search under Ibn Hayyan and Muqtabis). Reprinted (Beirut: Dar al-Kitab al-ʿArabi, 1973).
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  201. Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi. Al-Bayān al-mughrib fī akhbār al-Andalus wa al-Maghrib. Vols. 1–2. Edited by E. Lévi-Provençal and G. S. Colin. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1948.
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  203. Little is known about the life of the historian Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi. He was probably born in Spain, then moved to Morocco, where he completed his history of al-Andalus and the maghrib in 1312. His work provides important evidence for the Berber period in Spain. Vol. 3 edited by E. Lévi-Provençal (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1930); Vol. 4 edited by Ihsan Abbas (Beirut: Dār al-Thaqāfah, 1967).
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  205. Ibn al-Khatib, Lisan al-Din Muhammad. Al-Ihātah fī akhbār al-Gharnātah. 4 vols. Edited by M. Inan. Cairo: Maktabat al-Khānjī, 1973–1977.
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  207. Ibn al-Khatib (1313–1374) was a poet, courtier, and historian, and his works, including the Ihātah fī akhbār al-Gharnātah, are among the most important sources for the Nasrid kingdom of Granada.
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  209. Real Academia de la Historia. Tratados de legislación musulmana. Memorial Histórico Español 5. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 1853.
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  211. Contains two late medieval legal texts relevant to Muslims in Castile. The first, Leyes de Moros, is in Castilian, but preserves characteristics of an Islamic law book. The second, the Breviario sunni, is a summary of Muslim law written in aljamiado (Castilian written in Arabic characters) by Yça of Segovia.
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  213. Al-Wansharisi, Ahmad b. Yahya. Al-Miʿyār al-mu ʿrib wa al-jāmi ʿal-mughib ʿan fatāwā ahl Ifrīqīyah wa al-Andalus wa al-Maghrib. 13 vols. Edited by Muhammad Hajji. Rabat, Morocco: Wizarat al-Awqaf wa al-Shuʿun al-Islamiyah lil-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyah, 1981–1983.
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  215. Rulings by Muslim jurists (fatwas) record legal opinions about all aspects of Muslim life. Al-Wansharisi (d. 1508) compiled a vast collection of fatwas from al-Andalus and North Africa, many dating back to the 10th century. There is a summary of the Miʿyār in French by Vincent Lagardère (Madrid: C.S.I.C., 1995).
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  217. Journals
  218. There are numerous general medieval journals that include articles on Iberian topics, and a number of very specific regional or topical publications devoted to medieval Spain. The scholarly journals listed below fall somewhere between the two, mostly addressing broader fields within the study of medieval Iberian history and literature. Anuario de estudios medievales covers all topics in medieval studies, though with particular attention to Spain, while Hispania focuses on Spanish history from medieval to contemporary times. The journal Al-Andalus and its continuation Al-Qanʿara represent the flagship Spanish journals devoted to medieval Arabic and Islam. The Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies contains articles covering all aspects and cultures of medieval Iberia, while Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón concentrates on medieval Aragón and Navarre. Medieval Encounters looks at Muslim, Christian, and Jewish relations in all regions of the medieval world, and Sefarad is devoted to Jewish history, primarily in Spain, but also elsewhere.
  219. Al-Andalus.
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  221. This journal and Al-Qanʿara continue each other, with different names and rather different flavors (reflecting their editors and periods). Al-Andalus was published from 1933 to 1978, and contains articles in Spanish relating to Muslim Spain and Islamic history in a range of disciplines (history, literature, architecture, religion, etc.).
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  223. Al-Qanʿara.
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  225. The continuation of Al-Andalus, published since 1980. Like its predecessor, it is published by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.) in Madrid, and most of its articles are in Spanish.
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  227. Anuario de estudios medievales.
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  229. Founded in 1964 and published by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.) in Barcelona, this journal devotes special attention to medieval Spain. Articles are in various European languages.
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  231. Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón.
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  233. Published in Zaragoza from 1945 until 1975 (on an irregular basis), this series contains a broad range of articles, monographs, and collections of edited documents pertaining to the medieval kingdoms of Aragón and Navarre. Since 1977, it has been published under the name Aragón en la Edad Media.
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  235. Hispania. Revista Española de Historia.
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  237. This journal, founded in 1940 and published by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.) in Madrid, contains articles devoted to the history of Spain in medieval, early modern, and contemporary periods. Most articles are in Spanish.
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  239. Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies.
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  241. This interdisciplinary journal began publication in 2008. The focus is on innovative scholarship that crosses traditional disciplinary, linguistic, and cultural boundaries. Published by Taylor and Francis; most articles are in English.
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  243. Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue.
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  245. First published in 1995, this journal is devoted to dialogue and discussion across cultures and disciplines in the medieval world. It contains many articles on medieval Spain. Published by Brill; most articles are in English.
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  247. Sefarad.
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  249. This journal has been published since 1941 by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (C.S.I.C.) in Madrid. Though covering many topics in Jewish history, it pays special attention to medieval Jewish culture in Spain and the subsequent Sephardic legacy. Most articles are in Spanish.
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  251. Historiography
  252. The understanding and interpretation of medieval Spain has developed in several directions in recent centuries, reflecting profound disagreements between historians both in and outside of Spain. As people have looked to the past in order to understand the present, there has been much debate over questions relating to the influence of the Muslim and Jewish presence in medieval Spain (positive or negative), whether medieval Spain was like or unlike other areas of Europe, whether Spanish history should emphasize narratives of unification or diversity, and what was the nature of the medieval relationship between Muslims, Christians, and Jews and whether this has relevance for modern relations between the three religions. For instance, Doubleday and Coleman 2008, a collection of essays by historians and literary scholars, interrogates the relevance of medieval Spain to political and social issues in the modern world. Kamen 2008 looks at the connection between national myths and Spain’s history, while Grieve 2009 examines the national narrative that traces Christian Spanish identity back to Gothic roots. Linehan 1993 treats a number of important historiographical themes, but also with special emphasis on the Gothic legacy. Huete Fudio 1997 is a very useful short handbook, in Spanish, surveying Latin historiography. For al-Andalus, the historiographical essays in Marin 2009 survey many fields of Muslim Spanish scholarship, and Géal 2006 contains essays written by French specialists detailing various fields of Andalusi history. Monroe 1970 remains the fundamental study, in English, considering Spanish scholarship on Islam and al-Andalus from the early modern period through the middle of the 20th century.
  253. Doubleday, Simon, and David Coleman, eds. In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, and the Relevance of the Past. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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  255. This collection of essays gives particular attention to the relevance of the past in issues pertaining to modern Christian-Muslim relations. Also considers the ways in which visions of the medieval past are being deployed in Spain today.
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  257. Géal, François, ed. Regards sur al-Andalus: VIIIe–XVe siècle. Proceedings of a seminar held at the École Normale Supérieure in 1999–2000 titled “La présence musulmane en Espagne, depuis l’invasion de la péninsule Ibérique en 711 jusqu’á la chute du Royaume de Grenade en 1492.” Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2006.
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  259. The seven essays in this volume present current debates and new interpretations in particular areas of Andalusi history, and summarize recent sources and research on these topics.
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  261. Grieve, Patricia E. The Eve of Spain: Myths of Origins in the History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
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  263. Through the lens of medieval and early modern literature, stories, and chronicles, the author examines the narrative of national identity that traces Christian Spanish identity back to Gothic roots.
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  265. Huete Fudio, Mario. La historiográfia latina medieval en la Península Ibérica (siglos VIII–XII): Fuentes y Bibliografía. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma, 1997.
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  267. Describes the medieval Latin sources available for the various different Christian kingdoms and regions.
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  269. Kamen, Henry. Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
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  271. Originally written for a Spanish audience, then translated, this somewhat polemical book identifies seven national myths that have been used, some by conservatives and others by liberals, to explain Spanish history. Most of these “fictions” began in the later medieval period and developed in the modern period, and many persist today.
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  273. Linehan, Peter. History and the Historians of Medieval Spain. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
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  275. This lengthy, complex, and sometimes opinionated volume examines the crafting of history by historians in medieval Spain, and the way later historians have used these sources. Linehan especially concentrates on the Gothic legacy in Spanish history and Toledo’s struggle for primacy.
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  277. Marin, Manuela, ed. Al-Andalus/España: Historiografías en contraste siglos XVII–XXI. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2009.
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  279. Each chapter provides an invaluable up-to-date perspective on scholars and areas of study from the early modern period to the present. The volume is mainly in French and Spanish, but each essay has abstracts in Spanish, French, and English.
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  281. Monroe, James T. Islam and the Arabs in Spanish Scholarship (Sixteenth Century to the Present). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1970.
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  283. Although the field has changed considerably since this book’s publication, the volume remains useful for its coverage of historiography in earlier periods.
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  285. Political and Chronological Periods
  286. Sections below cover different periods and people in Spanish history, starting with the earliest period, the Visigothic kingdom, from the late 5th to the early 8th century. The next sections turn to Muslim Spain (al-Andalus) looking first at general histories, then at individual chronological periods from the Arab conquest in 711, through the Umayyad, Taifa, Berber, and Nasrid periods (ending in 1492), then at specific topics including art and architecture, social, urban, and economic life, and religious life and law. Next, coverage turns to the Christian Spanish regions, looking at Christian states as they developed in the north in the early medieval period (8th–10th centuries), then gradually expanded southward, forming the different kingdoms of Castile, León, Aragón, and Catalonia in the period from the 11th to the 15th century. These sections on political history are followed by sections devoted to works discussing Christian social, economic, and urban life, and Christian religious life.
  287. Visigothic Period
  288. The Visigoths arrived in Spain in the late 5th century, and established a kingdom in the peninsula in the wake of Roman decline. They were overthrown by the arrival of Muslim armies in 711. Interest in the Visigoths has grown recently, although they have always had a place in the scholarship of Late Antiquity and the early medieval world. Ferreiro 1988 provides a comprehensive guide to the extensive bibliography for this period. Díaz y Díaz, et al. 1991–1999 and García Moreno 1998 are devoted to surveys of Visigothic history; both are in Spanish. For readers of English, Collins 1995, a short and accessible volume, presents an excellent interpretative introduction to early medieval Spanish history (including Visigoths), while Collins 2004 concentrates more directly on the Visigoths. Hillgarth 2009 is more about the Visigothic legend than their history, while Stocking 2000, an in-depth investigation of church councils during the Visigothic period, is mainly for specialists.
  289. Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000. 2d ed. London: Macmillan, 1995.
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  291. Covers the Hispano-Roman period through the 10th century in both Christian and Muslim Spain, but has especially strong coverage for the Visigothic era, with a good discussion of sources. Originally published in 1983, this second edition offers significant new additions and revisions.
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  293. Collins, Roger. Visigothic Spain, 409–711. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
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  295. The first half of the book tracks the political narrative; the second concentrates on culture and society, with special attention to archaeological data. Much of the book summarizes work published earlier by Collins and other scholars, but usefully collected and summarized.
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  297. Díaz y Díaz, Manuel, et al., eds. España Visigoda. 2 vols. Madrid: Espasa-Caspe, 1991–1999.
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  299. The third part of the new edition of Ramon Menéndez Pidal’s multivolume Historia de España. Part I, edited by Manuel Díaz y Díaz, covers the Visigothic arrival, society, and the church; Part II, by several editors, treats politics, arts, and culture. Extensive coverage, lavishly illustrated. In Spanish.
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  301. Ferreiro, Alberto. The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain, A.D. 418–711: A Bibliography. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1988.
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  303. As the title implies, the first volume and its sequels––The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia: A Supplemental Bibliography, 1984–2003 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2006) and The Visigoths in Gaul and Iberia: A Supplemental Bibliography, 2004–2006 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2008)––provide a comprehensive bibliography for the rapidly growing field of Visigothic studies.
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  305. García Moreno, Luis A. Historia de España Visigoda. Madrid: Cátedra, 1998.
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  307. The first third of this lengthy Spanish study covers political development, with following sections devoted to urban and rural economic affairs, administration, society, and culture.
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  309. Hillgarth, J. N. The Visigoths in History and Legend. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2009.
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  311. After a brief summary of the early medieval period, Hillgarth examines the mythology of Gothic origins, tracing this legend through literature from the Asturian kingdom to the Hapsburg Empire and up through the 20th century.
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  313. Stocking, Rachel. Bishops, Councils, and Consensus in the Visigothic Kingdom, 589–633. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
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  315. Detailed examination of the ways in which the texts of church councils, combined with other contemporary sources, illuminate Visigothic struggles to unify the kingdom in political and religious terms.
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  317. Al-Andalus (Muslim Spain)
  318. The term “al-Andalus” is used for Iberian territories under Muslim rule in the period between 711 and 1492. Because parts of the Iberian Peninsula were under Muslim rule for nearly eight centuries, there were considerable political variations over time. For this reason, the Andalusi sections are divided into basic historical periods, with supplemental sections on art, society, and religion. There are a number of good histories covering the entire Andalusi period, some for general readers and others for specialists. There are several good surveys: Kennedy 1996 is an up-to-date, relatively brief survey that is denser in its coverage than Fletcher 1992, which is recommended for students and general readers. Arié 1984 gives a thorough survey of Muslim Spain, in Spanish, while Watt and Cachia 1965 is a shorter English overview of Andalusi history and literature. The Marín 1998 and in Jayyusi 1992 collections bring together important essays, on many Andalusi topics, written by experts in the field. Gil Grimau and Roldán Castro 1993 provides an extensive bibliography on Muslim Spain, though it is hard to navigate.
  319. Arié, Rachel. España musulmana (siglos VIII–XV). Barcelona: Editorial Labor, 1984.
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  321. Written by a preeminent French scholar in the field. Political history is covered briefly, leaving ample space for a discussion of Andalusi institutions, society, religious life, economy, culture, and other aspects. In Spanish.
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  323. Fletcher, Richard. Moorish Spain. New York: Holt, 1992.
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  325. Solid, sensible, and pleasantly readable survey of Muslim Spain.
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  327. Gil Grimau, Rodolfo, and Fátima Roldán Castro. Corpus aproximativo de una bibliografia española sobre al-Andalus. Seville, Spain: Ediciones Alfar, 1993.
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  329. A bibliography listing nearly ten thousand books and articles relating to Muslim Spain. Because it is organized alphabetically by author, it is impossible to search for particular topics or titles.
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  331. Jayyusi, Salma K., ed. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1992.
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  333. This extensive collection of articles presents rich coverage of the most important issues in the field of Andalusi studies. Published to celebrate the quincentennial of 1492, the focus remains broad and interdisciplinary, presenting a diversity of views. This volume is an indispensable resource.
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  335. Kennedy, Hugh. Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus. Harlow, UK: Longman, 1996.
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  337. Useful, compact, and dense history of Muslim Iberia from 711 through the Nasrids. Written by a leading English expert on the medieval Arab world, this places al-Andalus within a broader Islamic orbit. This is an essential and accessible reference work.
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  339. Marín, Manuela, ed. The Formation of al-Andalus. 2 vols. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1998.
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  341. Collection of forty important older articles by various scholars. Volume 1 concentrates on history and society; Volume 2 on religion, culture, and the sciences. All articles are translated into English, mostly from Spanish. These articles represent significant contributions to the field and some are quite specialized. Coverage is not comprehensive.
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  343. Watt, W. Montgomery, and Pierre Cachia. A History of Islamic Spain. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1965.
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  345. Brief and readable, though now somewhat dated, this volume still provides a good summary of Andalusi history and literature.
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  347. Conquest and Umayyad Period, 711–1031
  348. The first period of Islamic rule in Spain began with the arrival of Muslim armies in 711, and from 756 to 1031, al-Andalus was ruled by members of the Umayyad family. At first, Umayyad rulers took the title of amir (or emir), until ʿAbd al-Rahman III declared an Andalusi caliphate in 929. The dynasty ruled until it collapsed in civil war during the early 11th century. See Collins 1989, a reevaluation of traditional narratives of the 711 conquest, and Scales 1994 for a closer look at the civil war and creation of the Taifa states. Fierro 2005, a biography of ʿAbd al-Rahman III, is designed for general readers, but includes a good discussion of historiographical issues and sources. The survey Lévi Provençal 1950 remains essential reading for serious students of the Umayyad period, with three volumes in French. Both Martinez-Gros 1992 and Safran 2000 discuss Umayyad ideology, but Safran is more accessible for English-speaking readers. Wasserstein 1993, on the caliphate, is also best suited for specialists.
  349. Collins, Roger. The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–797. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
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  351. In light of the fact that there are no contemporary Arabic accounts of the event, Collins instead focuses on a careful consideration of 8th-century Latin sources to reexamine the late Visigothic period and the Arab conquest.
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  353. Fierro, Maribel. ʿAbd al-Rahman III: The First Cordoban Caliph. Oxford: Oneworld, 2005.
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  355. Highly readable short biography of ʿAbd al-Rahman III, the first Andalusi caliph and perhaps the most important Umayyad ruler. Written for nonspecialists by an expert on this period.
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  357. Lévi Provençal, Evariste. Histoire de l’Espagne musulmane. 3 vols. Paris: Maisonneuve, 1950.
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  359. This French study is foundational for modern works on the Umayyad period. The first two volumes cover Umayyad politics and administration; the third turns to society, economy, and culture.
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  361. Martinez-Gros, Gabriel. L’Idéologie omeyyade: La construction de la légitimité du Califat de Cordoue (Xe–XIe siècles). Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1992.
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  363. This subtle, dense, and penetrating analysis of Andalusi sources examines the ways in which contemporary authors imagined and created narratives of Umayyad power and legitimacy. In French.
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  365. Safran, Janina M. The Second Umayyad Caliphate: The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al-Andalus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
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  367. This readable volume looks at Andalusi Umayyad history and the dynasty’s claim to caliphal authority through connections with the eastern Umayyad line.
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  369. Scales, Peter. The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba: Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1994.
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  371. Though not without flaws, this study is one of the few to examine the period of civil war at the end of the Umayyad period (1009–1031), and the roles of different groups (Arabs, Berbers, and Saqaliba) in pursuing this conflict and creating the Taifa states.
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  373. Wasserstein, David J. The Caliphate in the West: An Islamic Political Institution in the Iberian Peninsula. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
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  375. Usually, the end of Umayyad rule in 1031 is seen as terminating the caliphate, but Wasserstein argues for caliphal claims through the Taifa era and into the Berber period. Much of this revisionist and highly technical argument is based on numismatic evidence.
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  377. Taifa and Berber Periods, 1031–1223
  378. Following the collapse of the Umayyad caliphate, smaller “Taifa” states (sometimes called “party kingdoms”) emerged in al-Andalus after 1031. Wasserstein 1985 is valuable as one of the few books in English on the Taifa period. Guichard 1990 looks at the region of Valencia in the Taifa period and after. The Taifa states survived through most of the 11th century, until the capture of Toledo by Alfonso VI in 1085 prompted some Taifa rulers to seek assistance from the Berber Almoravid dynasty in Morocco. The Almoravids held power in al-Andalus from 1086 to 1144, followed by another Berber dynasty, the Almohads, from 1147 to 1228. Bosc Vilá 1956 (on Almoravids) and Huici Miranda 1956–1957 (on Almohads) are classic older surveys of the Berber periods, both in Spanish. Cressier, et al. 2005 is an extensive two-volume collection of recent studies on the Almohad period by an international group of scholars. Lagardère 1989 is useful for scholars of the Almoravid period, but not recommended for general readers. Robinson 2007, a study of a romance written during the Almohad period, is not only interesting as literature, but its story and illustrations are an invaluable source for social history. There is no good study of the Almoravid and Almohad eras in English; readers looking for a survey of the Berber period would do best to consult the sources cited in General Overviews.
  379. Bosc Vilá, Jacinto. Los Almoravides. Granada, Spain: Universidad de Granada, 1956.
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  381. This is the classic work in Spanish on the Almoravid period (1086–1144). Though dated, it is not fully replaced by the works of Vincent Lagardère.
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  383. Cressier, Patrice, Maribel Fierro, and Luis Molina, eds. Los Almohades: Problemas y perspectivas. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2005.
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  385. Strong collection of articles reflecting recent work. The first volume considers art, architecture, numismatics, and material culture; the second is devoted to politics, military issues, religion, and intellectual life. Most articles are in French and Spanish.
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  387. Guichard, Pierre. Les musulmans de Valence et la Reconquête (XIe–XIIIe siècles). 2 vols. Damascus, Syria: Institut Français de Damas, 1990.
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  389. Detailed two-volume study of Muslims in eastern Spain from the Taifa period through Almoravid and Almohad rule. Though covering politics, the book is strongest for social and economic analysis. Guichard examines population, settlement patterns, fiscal and administrative structures, and seigneuralization. Sophisticated synthesis of textual and archaeological data. For specialists.
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  391. Huici Miranda, Ambrosio. Historia política del Imperio Almohade. 2 vols. Tetuán, Spain: Editora Marroquí, 1956–1957.
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  393. This is the classic work in Spanish on the Almohad period (1147–1228). Old-fashioned in its methodology, but still useful for historical details and information on sources.
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  395. Lagardère, Vincent. Les Almoravides jusqu’au règne de Yusuf b. Tasacron;fin (1039–1106). Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan, 1989.
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  397. Surveys Almoravid politics and society through the reign of Yusuf b. Tashufin. There is a sequel, also by Lagardère, Les Almoravides: Le djihad andalou (1106–1143) (Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan, 1998), which covers the later Almoravid period. Both volumes are useful for scholars, but poorly produced.
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  399. Robinson, Cynthia. Medieval Andalusian Courtly Culture in the Mediterranean. New York: Routledge, 2007.
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  401. An analysis and translation of the Andalusi Arabic romance Hadith Bayad wa Riyad, a unique illustrated manuscript telling the love story between a merchant’s son and a slave girl. This remarkable tale, filled with pictures and poetry, nuances our understanding of life in Almohad al-Andalus.
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  403. Wasserstein, David. The Rise and Fall of the Party Kings: Politics and Society in Islamic Spain, 1002–1086. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985.
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  405. Surveys the collapse of centralized Umayyad power, the subsequent formation of Taifa kingdoms, and their eventual demise. Wasserstein provides a valuable discussion of the intricacies of Taifa politics, with particular attention to the different socio-ethnic groups in these small states. The maps and lists of Taifa rulers are especially useful.
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  407. Nasrid Period, 1232–1492
  408. From the 13th through the 15th century, the kingdom of Granada survived as the only remaining Muslim state in the Iberian Peninsula. Its rulers, members of the Nasrid dynasty, preserved Granada’s independence through careful diplomacy, tribute, and a defensible location. In 1492, the last Nasrid ruler surrendered to Ferdinand and Isabella. Arié 1973 is a fundamental French study of the Nasrid dynasty, while Harvey 1990 provides an accessible general survey of the period in English. Ladero Quesada 1989 focuses on Granada before and after Christian rule, and Peláez Rovira 2009 is a recent study of Granadan society during the final century of Nasrid administration. Shatzmiller 2007 on women’s property rights is of interest for women’s history and legal affairs.
  409. Arié, Rachel. L’Espagne musulmane au temps des Nasrides (1232–1492). Paris: E. De Boccard, 1973.
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  411. A detailed survey that looks first at political developments of the Nasrid dynasty, then at Nasrid society, economy, culture, institutions, and religious issues. This remains an essential study of the period.
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  413. Harvey, L. P. Islamic Spain, 1250–1500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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  415. Harvey looks at Muslims living both in the northern Christian kingdoms and in Nasrid Granada during the late medieval period. Coverage is particularly thorough for Nasrid politics. Individual reigns are discussed chronologically, with careful attention to sources.
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  417. Ladero Quesada, Miguel Ángel. Granada: Historia de un país islámico (1232–1571). 3d ed. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1989.
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  419. Written by an expert in late medieval Castilian history, this study looks at the region of Granada under both Muslim and subsequent Christian rule. In Spanish.
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  421. Peláez Rovira, Antonio. El emirato nazarí de Granada en el siglo XV: Dinámica política y fundamentos sociales de un estado andalusí. Granada, Spain: Universidad de Granada, 2009.
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  423. Reveals new perspectives on the period through a careful study of elite families within their political, social, economic, religious, and military context. In Spanish.
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  425. Shatzmiller, Maya. Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
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  427. Uses legal documents concerning female property to study the economic life of Nasrid women in 15th-century Granada. Engaging, but technical and sometimes polemical.
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  429. Andalusi Art and Architecture
  430. Much work has been done on Andalusi art and architecture, going beyond aesthetic appreciation of the monuments to using them as potent sources for historical and cultural understanding. In many cases, the authors combine art, architecture, archaeology, and texts in their studies. For instance, Dodds 1990 analyzes both texts and architecture of the Visigothic and Umayyad periods. Anderson and Rosser-Owen 2007 contains articles on al-Andalus written by an international team of art historians, archaeologists, and architects. Grabar 1978 is a short but fundamental study of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, while Jacobs and Fernández 2000 is an illustrated survey of its art and architecture. Dodds 1992 and Ecker 2004 both contain stunning pictures from museum exhibitions, along with scholarly analysis. Ruggles 2000 and Robinson 2002 examine Andalusi courtly culture––Ruggles through gardens and landscapes, and Robinson using art and literature.
  431. Anderson, Glaire, and Mariam Rosser-Owen. Revisiting al-Andalus: Perspectives on the Material Culture of Islamic Iberia and Beyond. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2007.
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  433. Thought-provoking collection of interdisciplinary articles by Spanish, English, and American scholars looking at al-Andalus and its legacy in art, architecture, urban design, and material objects. Articles are in English.
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  435. Dodds, Jerrilynn D. Architecture and Ideology in Early Medieval Spain. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990.
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  437. Innovative study tracing the interrelationships of Visigothic, Carolingian, Andalusi, and Mozarabic architectural styles and political claims. Most notably, Dodds argues that the classic horseshoe arch, long associated with Muslim Spain, has earlier roots in the peninsula.
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  439. Dodds, Jerrilynn D, ed. Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.
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  441. Large beautiful book compiled to accompany the “Al-Andalus” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York celebrating the 1992 quincentennial. The articles are useful, and the illustrations are unmatched.
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  443. Ecker, Heather. Caliphs and Kings: The Arts and Influence of Islamic Spain. New York: Hispanic Society of America, 2004.
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  445. Gorgeous picture book with images of Andalusi and Christian Spanish art and objects, from an exhibition in 2004 celebrating the centennial of the founding of the Hispanic Society of America. A scholarly introduction by Ecker discusses perceptions of Muslim and Christian Spain.
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  447. Grabar, Oleg. The Alhambra. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.
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  449. Short study written by a leading historian of Islamic art. Grabar asks provocative questions about the Alhambra and its architecture, and gives special attention to the inscriptions in this monument. More text than pictures.
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  451. Jacobs, Michael, and Francisco Fernández. Alhambra. New York: Rizzoli, 2000.
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  453. There are many books of photographs illustrating the glories of the Alhambra Palace in Granada; this recent contribution, in English, is particularly beautiful and packed with stunning images. The text provides a thoughtful and helpful guide.
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  455. Robinson, Cynthia. In Praise of Song: The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005–1134 A.D. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002.
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  457. Combining sophisticated discussions of architecture, art, literature, and material objects, Robinson reconstructs the court culture of the Taifa states. Special attention is given to an analysis of the Aljafería Palace in Zaragoza, and to an examination of the role of Taifa culture in the “courtly love” tradition. For specialists.
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  459. Ruggles, D. Fairchild. Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
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  461. Ruggles argues that the court culture of al-Andalus should be understood through analysis of gardens, irrigation, and the aesthetic consciousness of spaces designed for both leisure and display. Going beyond botany, this book places Islamic gardens in their social, economic, and political contexts.
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  463. Andalusi Social, Urban, and Economic Life
  464. The books cited here concentrate on specific aspects of Andalusi society, economy, and urban life. This has been a vibrant area of research, with considerable contributions from archaeological data. Avila 1985 studies demographic data for over one thousand Muslim scholars from the 10th and 11th centuries. Guichard 1977 uses ethnography, archaeology, sociology, and toponymic data to analyze Andalusi social history. Torres Balbás 1985 is an older encyclopedic study of cities in Muslim Spain, while the articles in Cara 2000 and Cressier and García-Arenal 1998 provide more recent data on the history and archaeology of individual medieval cities. Glick 1995 also brings recent Spanish scholarship on archaeology, settlement, material culture, and rural life to an English-speaking audience. Constable 1994 studies the role of Andalusi traders in the Iberian Peninsula and the changing commercial status of the Iberian Peninsula.
  465. Avila, María Luisa. La sociedad hispanomusulmana al final del califato (aproximación a un estudio demográfico). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 1985.
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  467. As well as analyzing names, birth dates, and death dates, Avila examines the impact of travel and political events on the lives of Andalusi Muslim scholars in the Umayyad and Taifa periods. This quantitative study uses information from Andalusi biographical dictionaries and computer analysis.
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  469. Cara, Lorenzo, ed. Ciudad y territorio en al-Andalus. Granada, Spain: Athenos-Pérgamos, 2000.
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  471. Collection of articles by Spanish scholars looking at late medieval urban history and archaeology in the Nasrid kingdom of Granada and Merinid Morocco. Most chapters concentrate on particular cities. All articles are in Spanish.
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  473. Constable, Olivia Remie. Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900–1500. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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  475. Study of the role of Andalusi commerce and merchant networks within the medieval Muslim Mediterranean, and changes brought about in the wake of Christian conquests in Spain and the increasing integration of the Iberian Peninsula within a European economic sphere.
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  477. Cressier, Patrice, and Mercedes García-Arenal, eds. Genèse de la ville islamique en al-Andalus et au Maghreb occidental. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1998.
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  479. Collection of articles, mostly in Spanish and French, by historians and archaeologists, reflecting recent research on many aspects of Muslim cities in al-Andalus and Morocco in the early medieval period (roughly 8th–11th centuries).
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  481. Glick, Thomas F. From Muslim Fortress to Christian Castle: Social and Cultural Change in Medieval Spain. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1995.
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  483. Drawing on recent archaeological and textual studies, Glick crafts his book around a series of questions about power, society, landholding, and cross-cultural contact moving from Roman, Visigothic, and Andalusi periods into the 15th century.
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  485. Guichard, Pierre. Structures sociales “orientales” et “occidentales” dans l’Espagne musulmane. Paris: Mouton, 1977.
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  487. Guichard looks at Arab and Berber social structures, including marriage patterns, tribes, naming, and settlement, and examines their impact on Andalusi and Christian Spanish society. In French; there is also an earlier Spanish version (1973).
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  489. Torres Balbás, Leopoldo. Ciudades hispano-musulmanas. 2d ed. Madrid: Instituto Hispano-Árabe de Cultura, 1985.
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  491. Concentrating on material forms, Torres Balbás discusses urban plans, buildings, institutions, and military defenses of cities in Muslim Spain. He frequently compares Andalusi cities with Christian urban centers in Spain and elsewhere in medieval Europe. The approach is now somewhat dated, but still worthwhile, with illustrations and maps.
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  493. Andalusi Religious Life and Law
  494. Even though many of the texts that survive from al-Andalus were written by religious and legal scholars, there are surprisingly few monographs specifically devoted to the study of Andalusi law or religion. A few are noted here, including the two intellectual biographies, Fakhry 2001 and Urvoy 1991, of Ibn Rushd (Averroes), arguably the most famous of all Andalusi scholars. Miller 2008 surveys surviving Islamic texts written by Mudejar scholars in Christian Spain. Shatzmiller 2007, a study of legal documents, shows the ways in which Islamic law protected female property rights in late medieval Granada. Urvoy 1978 uses data from biographical dictionaries to analyze the careers of religious scholars. Lagardère 1995, a compendium in French, summarizes and indexes the extensive fatwa collection of the maghribi jurist al-Wansharisi (d. 1508).
  495. Fakhry, Majid. Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Works, and Influence. Oxford: Oneworld, 2001.
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  497. Accessible survey of the life and period of Ibn Rushd, and a broader discussion of his thought, writings, and influence. Written by an expert in Islamic philosophy, the book is more about the ideas than the man. In English; for general readers.
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  499. Lagardère, Vincent. Histoire et société en occident musulman au Moyen Age: Analyse du Mi‘yar dal-Wansharisi. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 1995.
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  501. Invaluable summary of the fatwas (judicial opinions) collected by the maghribi jurist al-Wansharisi (d. 1508), whose vast compendium provides precious data on life, religion, and society in al-Andalus from the 10th to 15th centuries. Lagardère organizes entries by topic, and there is also an index.
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  503. Miller, Kathryn A. Guardians of Islam: Religious Authority and Muslim Communities in Late Medieval Spain. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
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  505. Based largely on Muslim rather than Christian documents, Miller’s work rediscovers the ongoing Muslim life of Mudejar communities in late medieval Aragón, showing their efforts to maintain a knowledge of Arabic and Islam through scholarship, exchange of texts, teaching, and travel to Islamic lands.
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  507. Shatzmiller, Maya. Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
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  509. Shatzmiller uses legal documents to compare female economic affairs and property rights (including rights to dowries, inheritance, labor, and wages) in Nasrid Granada with those of women elsewhere in the medieval and modern Islamic world. Useful for legal, social, and economic history.
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  511. Urvoy, Dominique. Le monde des ulémas andalous de V/XIe au VII/XIIIe siècle: Étude sociologique. Geneva, Switzerland: Droz, 1978.
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  513. Urvoy synthesizes biographical data on Andalusi religious scholars during the Taifa, Almoravid, and Almohad periods. The analysis includes information on scholarly disciplines and specializations, demographic patterns, geographic origins, and intellectual connections created between scholars by study, teaching, and travel. In French.
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  515. Urvoy, Dominique. Ibn Rushd (Averroes). New York: Routledge, 1991.
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  517. Urvoy places Ibn Rushd in historical and cultural context, looking at his theological and philosophical writings and the milieu in which they were produced and consumed. Includes a bibliographical guide. In English. For a more in-depth study of Ibn Rushd, see Urvoy’s Averroès: Les ambitions d’un intellectual musulman (Paris, 1998).
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  519. Christian Kingdoms
  520. While Andalusi culture flourished in the southern peninsula, Christian kingdoms were expanding, consolidating, and creating their own separate histories in the north. Over time, the kingdoms and regions of Asturias, León, Galicia, Castile, Navarre, Aragón, and Catalonia took shape and developed distinctive identities and institutions. Portugal is not generally included within the rubric of “medieval Spain” and thus is not covered here.
  521. Early History, 8th–10th Centuries
  522. Only a small area of northern territory remained in Christian hands after the Muslim conquest in 711, regions that evolved into early kingdoms and counties by the 9th century. Glick 2005 is one of the most thoughtful treatments of early medieval Spain, both Christian and Muslim, and Collins 1983, a study of early medieval history, is particularly strong concerning the Visigothic era.
  523. Collins, Roger. Early Medieval Spain: Unity in Diversity, 400–1000. London: Macmillan, 1983.
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  525. Provides a solid survey of early medieval history from the Hispano-Roman period through the 10th century in both Christian and Muslim Spain. Although Collins provides more information for the Visigothic period, this volume is also an excellent resource for the later period, with an especially good discussion of sources.
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  527. Glick, Thomas. Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages. 2d ed. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2005.
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  529. Written by a historian of science, this survey pays special attention to culture, technology, science, economy, and society in both Muslim and Christian regions. The second edition is considerably expanded and the bibliography is brought up to date. The first edition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979) is available online.
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  531. Castile and León, 11th–13th Centuries
  532. By the 11th century, the political and territorial lines between Christian kingdoms were more clearly developed, and the regions of Castile and León became increasingly closely united (see Linehan 2008 for more on the history and historiography of these early kingdoms). Later, following the conquests by Ferdinand III and Alfonso X in the 13th century, additional southern territories would create the “Crown of Castile.” Much of the scholarship on medieval Castile-León emphasizes political and institutional history. Martínez 2010 is a detailed but engaging biography of the influential monarch Alfonso X, while Reilly 1988 is an in-depth scholarly study of the reign of Alfonso VI. Menéndez Pidal 1934, the classic work on the 11th-century period of the Cid, remains readable and useful, despite its age. O’Callaghan 1989 looks at the evolution of the cortes (parliament) in Castile-León during its first two centuries, while Ruiz 2004 draws attention to critical shifts in contemporary Castilian society.
  533. Linehan, Peter. Spain, 1157–1300: A Partible Inheritance. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
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  535. This book emphasizes divisions with Iberian territorial politics, looking not only at León and Castile but also at the other early kingdoms, and showing their development. The story is complex, and Linehan is an expert on the intricacies of the historiography, making for a rather complicated narrative.
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  537. Martínez, H. Salvador. Alfonso X, the Learned: A Biography. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010.
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  539. This is a good recent biography of Alfonso X, but there are also several other fine studies of this fascinating monarch. Because the field of Alfonsine studies has an extensive bibliography; interested readers should consult the original Spanish version of Martínez’s work (Madrid: Ediciones Polifemo, 2003) for its better bibliographical coverage.
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  541. Menéndez Pidal, Ramón. The Cid and His Spain. Translated by Harold Sunderland. London: John Murray, 1934.
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  543. Although the methodology is dated, this remains worthwhile. Menéndez Pidal mined many sources to build a detailed picture of Rodrigo Díaz, El Cid, within his 11th-century context. The English translation is considerably abridged from the earlier Spanish version (La España del Cid [Madrid, 1929]), lacking much of the original scholarly apparatus.
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  545. O’Callaghan, Joseph F. The Cortes of Castile-León, 1188–1350. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
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  547. Survey of the early evolution of the Castilian cortes (parliament), with reference to the contemporary development of other representative assemblies in Europe. The cortes was called by the king, and brought together nobles, clergy, and representatives from towns to advise and confirm royal decisions. Available online.
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  549. Reilly, Bernard. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065–1109. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988.
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  551. Densely detailed study of the reign of Alfonso VI, with meticulous analysis of royal charters and other documents. Reilly authored two sequel volumes with similar methodology on the Kingdom of León-Castile under Alfonso VI’s daughter, Urraca, and under his grandson, Alfonso VII. All are more for scholars than general readers. Available online.
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  553. Ruiz, Teofilo F. From Heaven to Earth: The Reordering of Castilian Society, 1150–1350. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
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  555. Describes important shifts in spiritual, material, familial, and political values of Castilian society over two centuries. Ruiz draws on a wide range of evidence, from stone boundary markers, to wills, charters, inventories, and other Latin and vernacular documents. Very readable.
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  557. Aragón and Catalonia, 11th–13th Centuries
  558. The kingdom of Aragón and the county of Barcelona were permanently united after 1137, but each retained a distinct identity. Later, following the conquests of James I in the first half of the 13th century, the annexation of Valencia and other territories would create the “Crown of Aragón.” Incomparable archival holdings in this region, most notably in Barcelona, have given scholars access to documentary resources that are not available for other areas of medieval Spain. This, in turn, has allowed historians to ask and answer a range of questions about medieval life in the Crown of Aragón that are not possible to answer for other regions. For the general reader, the short history Bisson 1986 is a useful and comprehensive introduction. Bensch 1995 investigates the economic, political, and social history of Barcelona. Kosto 2001 examines written agreements about landholding (convenientia) in the 11th and 12th centuries. Bowman 2004 uses records of property and legal disputes to analyze the development, practice, and perception of law in Catalonia from the post-Carolingian period until the 11th century. Freedman 1983 studies the diocese of Vic in the 10th and 12th centuries. Catlos 2004 considers the situation of Muslims in Aragón and Catalonia (as distinct from Valencia).
  559. Bensch, Stephen P. Barcelona and Its Rulers, 1096–1291. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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  561. Charts the changes in urban administration, commercial organization, and family structures of Barcelona as it became one of the most important Mediterranean commercial centers. Unlike in Italian ports, Barcelona’s developing urban patriciate had to negotiate relations with the city’s count-kings.
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  563. Bisson, Thomas N. The Medieval Crown of Aragón: A Short History. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986.
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  565. Bisson traces the history of Aragón and Catalonia before their union, through the creation of the “Crown of Aragón,” and into the 16th century. Covering mainly political history, this is one of the few English surveys of the topic, and it provides a good introduction for all readers.
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  567. Bowman, Jeffrey A. Shifting Landmarks: Property, Proof, and Dispute in Catalonia around the Year 1000. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.
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  569. This analysis of the process and administration of justice, especially with regard to landholding, raises important questions about feudalization and land tenure in this region.
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  571. Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragón, 1050–1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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  573. Catlos brings together archival research and earlier scholarship to introduce new visions of Mudejar life in Aragón and Catalonia. This study highlights differences in the Mudejar experience in different regions and periods.
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  575. Freedman, Paul H. The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983.
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  577. Focuses on questions of political and legal power, especially ecclesiastical lordship. Freedman tracks the wealth and support of Vic under the count-kings until 1099, and the role of the church within its city and region. Available online.
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  579. Kosto, Adam. Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia: Power, Order, and the Written Word, 1000–1200. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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  581. Discusses the changing process and power of law as it shifted from oral practices to written documents. Agreements concerning castle tenure, dispute settlement, and agrarian contracts shed light on feudalization and Catalan society.
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  583. Reconquest/Reconquista, 11th–13th Centuries
  584. Study of the frontier and of the Christian military effort to take (or retake) Muslim territory has been a prominent field within medieval Spanish history. In many ways, the evolving idea of reconquest (reconquista) was a defining feature of the period between 1085 and 1492, making a profound imprint on Christian political, institutional, military, territorial, and social affairs. The books in this section give particular attention to the early reconquest period. O’Callaghan 2003 argues for the close relationship between contemporary ideas of crusade and reconquest in Spain. Ayala Martínez 2003 looks at the evolution of Spanish military orders during the reconquest period, and Brodman 1986 examines the origins of the Order of Merced, which was devoted to ransoming captives. Burns 1967 documents the process by which Valencia was transformed into a Christian city following its conquest in 1238. Powers 1988 shows regional differences and similarities in the ways that urban militias shaped society on the frontier. Lomax 1978 provides a detailed survey of the battles and events of the reconquest period.
  585. Ayala Martínez, Carlos de. Las órdenes militares hispánicas en la edad media (siglos XII–XV). Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2003.
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  587. The development of the Spanish military orders (Calatrava, Santiago, and others) was an important phenomenon of the reconquest period. These were linked to the eastern crusading orders, yet also particular to Iberia. The book provides extensive coverage of their evolution, organization, administration, and activities. In Spanish.
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  589. Brodman, James W. Ransoming Captives in Crusader Spain: The Order of Merced on the Christian-Islamic Frontier. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986.
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  591. Not strictly a military order, the Order of Merced was founded c. 1230 to ransom Christians held captive by Muslims (a perennial problem of frontier life). Brodman elucidates the origins of the order, its changing organization and personnel, its fund-raising efforts, and its ransoming activities. Available online.
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  593. Burns, Robert I. The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
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  595. How was a Muslim city turned into a Christian city? Burns describes the foundation and funding of the cathedral and diocese of Valencia; the implementation of parish and ecclesiastical structures; the creation of schools, hospitals, charitable institutions, and monastic orders. Volume II contains appendixes and notes. Available online.
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  597. Lomax, D. W. The Reconquest of Spain. New York: Longman, 1978.
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  599. The details of each military encounter are given more attention than consideration of the conceptual framework implied by “reconquest.” Fewer than two hundred pages and useful for reference and consultation, but quite specialized.
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  601. O’Callaghan, Joseph. Reconquest and Crusade in Medieval Spain. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
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  603. Focusing on papal and royal intentions and ambitions, O’Callaghan explores connections between the contemporary medieval phenomena of crusade, holy war, and reconquista in order to illuminate the nature of warfare in Iberia.
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  605. Powers, James F. A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000–1284. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.
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  607. Drawing data from royal documents, chronicles, and fueros (urban charters), Powers describes the organization, funding, and duties of urban militias on the frontier. Militias provided defense for towns and crucial support for royal military strategy. Available online.
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  609. Christian Kingdoms, 14th–15th Centuries
  610. Although the political identity of the different Christian kingdoms had largely solidified by the 14th century, the late medieval period is often––and justifiably––envisioned as a period of crisis marked by civil war, plague, economic troubles, and growing intolerance. The end of the medieval period in Spain is generally considered to be delineated by the reigns of Ferdinand and Isabella (“the Catholic Monarchs”). These two remarkable rulers have inspired their own field of scholarship, and several studies of their period are included here, such as Edwards 2000 on the period of their rule and Weissberger 2004 on Isabella. For an earlier period, Estow 1995 provides a balanced biography of Pedro I, whose death opened the way for the rise of the Trastámara dynasty. Ladero Quesada 1999 is a masterful synthesis of the late 15th-century period by a prominent Spanish medievalist. VanLandingham 2002 takes a close look at the political life of the late medieval Aragonese court. MacKay 1977 provides an introduction to the later medieval period, with emphasis on the role of the frontier, while Ruiz 2007 deftly guides the reader through the complexities of politics during Spain’s late medieval “centuries of crisis.” Hillgarth 1976–1978 is an excellent and ambitious survey of both the Crowns of Castile and Aragón.
  611. Edwards, John. The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 1474–1520. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
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  613. Good survey, in English, of the period of Ferdinand and Isabella’s reign, looking more at their kingdoms than at the monarchs themselves. Edwards eschews a narrative of unification, and focuses instead on politics, institutions, economy, and society. Some background knowledge is assumed, so more for advanced students than general readers.
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  615. Estow, Clara. Pedro the Cruel of Castile, 1350–1369. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1995.
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  617. A careful study of Pedro I and his reign, drawing evidence mainly from chronicles. Estow gives attention not only to the events of Pedro I’s life, but also to the organization of royal justice and the treasury, women at the court, and Pedro’s treatment of Muslims and Jews.
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  619. Hillgarth, J. N. The Spanish Kingdoms, 1250–1516. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1976–1978.
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  621. In keeping with his title, Hillgarth examines several different realms, although the primary focus is on Castile and Catalonia. This is a rich and useful resource. Volume 1 covers 1250–1410; Volume 2 treats 1410–1516.
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  623. Ladero Quesada, Miguel Ángel. La España de los Reyes Católicos. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1999.
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  625. Ladero Quesada discusses politics and government, the church, Inquisition, conquests, and intellectual developments. Stronger for the Crown of Castile than for the Crown of Aragón. The book concludes with useful maps and chronology. In Spanish.
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  627. MacKay, Angus. Spain in the Middle Ages: From Frontier to Empire, 1000–1500. London: Macmillan, 1977.
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  629. Excellent coverage of peninsular history analyzed in terms of the role of the frontier in two periods: 1000–1350 (when the frontier was a critical factor) and 1350–1500 (when the frontier was no longer a dominant issue). Although interest in frontier studies has declined recently, this is still useful for students.
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  631. Ruiz, Teofilo F. Spain’s Centuries of Crisis: 1300–1474. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
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  633. These “centuries of crisis” were a turbulent period marked by civil war, economic woes, plague, and increasing religious intolerance. Ruiz explains the rise of the Trastámara dynasty and the solidification of fiscal and administrative institutions in the midst of these chaotic events.
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  635. VanLandingham, Marta. Transforming the State: King, Court, and Political Culture in the Realms of Aragón (1213–1387). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2002.
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  637. In this well-written study, VanLandingham examines the organization and personnel of the Aragonese royal court: the chancery, the treasury, and the king’s household. Evidence is drawn from palatine ordinances (royal regulations) laying out the proper form of the court.
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  639. Weissberger, Barbara. Isabel Rules: Constructing Queenship, Wielding Power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
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  641. This study demythologizes Isabella by evaluating late-15th-century gender politics and deconstructing images of Isabella in contemporary chronicles and literature. These works of political propaganda were all written by men, and reveal masculine anxieties about a female ruler––even in cases where Isabella oversaw her own portrayal.
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  643. Christian Social, Urban, and Economic Life
  644. Much has been written on medieval Christian social history, and on the relationship between towns, rural life, urban patriciates, commerce, landholding, the nobility, and the crown. Not to mention cross-cultural relationships engendered by the coexistence (convivencia) of Muslims, Christians, and Jews (see more in the section Thinking about Convivencia). The monographs cited here are a representative sample of writing on society and life in the Christian kingdoms. As an introduction, Ruiz 2001 provides an overview of social history in the late medieval and early modern period, and Dufourq and Gautier-Dalché 1976 is a classic survey of both economic and social history. Barton 1997 studies Castilian and Leonese aristocratic families, while the pioneering work Dillard 1984 argues for the critical importance of women in the settlement and stabilization of new Castilian towns. For rural history, García de Cortázar 1988 provides a good survey, and Freedman 1991 examines the changing status of Catalan peasants from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Ruiz 1994 gives an overview of both rural and town society in Castile. Rucquoi 1987, a narrative “biography” of Valladolid, is a fine example of more focused regional urban and social history.
  645. Barton, Simon. The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
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  647. A study of elite families in León and Castile, including edited charters and an appendix providing biographies of the 12th-century counts. Examines aristocratic kinship and family structure, power, landholding, military function, and relations between the nobility and the crown. Barton supplements with comparisons from England and France.
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  649. Dillard, Heath. Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100–1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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  651. Dillard mines data from urban charters (fueros) and other sources to build a picture of Castilian frontier society and the role of women in settling and solidifying urban life in new towns. Chapters cover various categories of secular townswomen, including wives, widows, mistresses, and prostitutes. Available online.
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  653. Dufourcq, Charles Emmanuel, and Jean Gautier-Dalché. Histoire économique et sociale de l’Espagne chrétienne au moyen âge. Paris: Armand Colin, 1976.
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  655. Written by two leading French scholars; Dufourcq covers the Crown of Aragón, while Gautier-Dalché handles Castile and other kingdoms. Their approach is traditional, but the coverage provides a good introduction to the subject. In French; there is also a Spanish translation (1983).
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  657. Freedman, Paul H. The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
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  659. Looking at the gradual shift from peasant freedom to serfdom, Freedman explains the growing imposition of peasant servitude in the context of changing power structures, episodes of aristocratic violence, the introduction of Roman law, and the crisis of the Black Death.
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  661. García de Cortázar, José Angel. La sociedad rural en la España medieval. Madrid: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1988.
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  663. Covers rural history from the Visigothic period to the 15th century, looking at the family, village, parish, and seigneurial power. In Spanish.
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  665. Rucquoi, Adeline. Valladolid en la edad media. 2 vols. Valladolid, Spain: Junta de Castilla y León, 1987
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  667. Based on extensive archival research, Rucquoi charts the rise and autonomy of Valladolid in the first volume (covering 1265–1367), followed by an analysis of the city’s growing role as a royal and regional center in Volume 2 (1367–1474). In Spanish.
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  669. Ruiz, Teofilo F. Crisis and Continuity: Land and Town in Late Medieval Castile. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
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  671. Ruiz argues that the 14th-century social and economic crises in northern Spain––brought on by plague, low productivity and population decline as people moved south to new territories, shifting land markets, and relations with the crown––were different from those found elsewhere in contemporary Europe.
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  673. Ruiz, Teofilo F. Spanish Society, 1400–1600. Harlow, UK: Longman, 2001.
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  675. After discussing social groups (peasants and urban dwellers, nobility, clergy, etc), Ruiz describes a variety of cultural phenomena, including festivals, violence, sexuality, food, and patterns of daily life. Largely based on literary and historical sources, this book is good for both students and general readers.
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  677. Christian Religious Life and the Church
  678. There is no monograph in English that provides an easy and comprehensive introduction to religious life in medieval Spain, although much has been written on individual regions and topics. Needless to say, religious issues and concerns inflect many of the works listed elsewhere throughout this bibliography. Fletcher 1978 is a close analysis of episcopal structure in the kingdom of León, and is a work mainly intended for specialists. Freedman 1983 studies the diocese of Vic in the 10th and 12th centuries. Burns 1967 documents the process by which Valencia was transformed into a Christian city following its conquest in 1238. García y García 1985–1987 is a magisterial collection of forty-three articles, in Spanish, on medieval Spanish law, manuscripts, and the church. Josserand 2004 surveys the role of the military orders in Castile in the 13th and 14th centuries. Linehan 1971 is the authoritative work in English on the papacy in Spain during the 13th century, while Nieto Soria 1993 discusses the relationship between the church and the crown, in Spanish. Shaver-Crandell and Gerson 1995 provides an English translation of the Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela and a gazetteer of places along this famous pilgrimage route.
  679. Burns, Robert I. The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
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  681. Shows how the foundation of new ecclesiastical structures transformed Valencia from a Muslim city into a Christian city. In the first volume, Burns discusses the creation and endowment of many different Christian institutions, including the cathedral and diocese, parishes, schools, hospitals, and monastic houses. Volume 2 contains appendixes and notes. Available online.
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  683. Fletcher, R. A. The Episcopate in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.
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  685. Painstaking investigation of the dozen bishoprics in the kingdom of León and their bishops, episcopal acta, episcopal households, church government, and papal relations. Written for specialists, this study is better on the details than the big picture. Available online.
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  687. Freedman, Paul H. The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1983.
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  689. Focuses on questions of political and legal power, especially ecclesiastical lordship, in the diocese of Vic. Freedman tracks the wealth and support of Vic under the count-kings, and the role of the church within its city and region. Available online.
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  691. García y García, Antonio, ed. Iglesia, sociedad, y derecho. 2 vols. Salamanca, Spain: Universidad Pontifica de Salamanca, 1985–1987.
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  693. These volumes cover many topics on law and society, with articles by many different experts. Volume 1 is mostly devoted to considerations of Roman and canon law in Spain, with sections on important schools and writers; Volume 2 discusses church councils and synods. Mainly for specialists; in Spanish.
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  695. Josserand, Philippe. Eglise et pouvoir dans la péninsule ibérique: Les ordres militaires dans le royaume de Castille, 1252–1369. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2004.
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  697. Countering the common narrative of the decline of the military orders after 1250, Jossarand argues for the integration of the military orders within late medieval Castilian aristocratic and ecclesiastical structures. In French.
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  699. Linehan, Peter. The Spanish Church and the Papacy in the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1971.
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  701. Authoritative work in English charting the rocky path of papal reform in Spain, and relations between Rome, rulers in Castile and Aragón, and the provinces and dioceses in both regions. Detailed coverage of individual bishops, papal legates, papal taxation, and Spanish clerics in Rome. Available online.
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  703. Nieto Soria, José Manuel. Iglesia y génesis del estado moderno en Castilla (1369–1480). Madrid: Editorial Complutense, 1993.
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  705. Nieto Soria argues for the close relations between the Trastámara dynasty and the church, and the growing authority of the crown in religious affairs, as ecclesiastical and political power converged and promoted a growing sense of nationalism in late medieval Castile.
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  707. Shaver-Crandell, Annie, and Paula Gerson. The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago de Compostela: A Gazetteer with 580 Illustrations. London: Harvey Miller, 1995.
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  709. This handbook follows the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, with descriptions of the history and monuments at each site along the road. It includes an English translation of The Pilgrim’s Guide, and is the companion to a critical edition of the text, edited by the same authors (1998).
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  711. Land of Three Cultures
  712. While many scholars have written on the individual periods and cultures of the medieval peninsula, discussions of the relations between “the three cultures” (las tres culturas) has dominated the historiography since the 1980s. Usually envisioned as three religions––Muslims, Christians, and Jews––the lines and links between these three groups were more complex and permeable than can be adequately described in religious or linguistic terms. Sections below are divided in terms of chronology, religious divisions, and cultural/political context. In al-Andalus, Jews and Christians (usually called Mozarabs) lived under Muslim rule; in Christian Spain, Jews and Muslims (usually called Mudejars) lived under Christian rule.
  713. Thinking about Convivencia
  714. The term convivencia describes the coexistence (“living together”) of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Spain. Since it became part of scholarly debate in the middle of the 20th century, this convenient but controversial term has taken on new meanings (often weighted toward an idealized vision of cross-cultural tolerance), and has both gained popularity and attracted skepticism. In recent decades, a number of scholars have addressed the issue of how we ought to understand convivencia. Menocal 2002 is an influential and popular book, mainly for the general reader, describing what the author sees as “a culture of tolerance” in medieval Spain. On the other hand, Nirenberg 1996, a much-praised study, argues that violence against and between minority groups was systemic, ritualistic, and even stabilizing. Catlos 2004 argues for the distinctive circumstances of Muslims in Catalonia and Aragón, while Dodds, et al. 2008 primarily describes a hybridity of cultures in late medieval Castile. Mann, et al. 1992, a collection of articles, provides an excellent introduction to convivencia among Jews, Muslims, and Christians, with lots of illustrations. At a more specialized level, Pick 2004 is a close examination of the life and work of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada (archbishop of Toledo, 1209–1247) and his thinking on Muslims and Jews, while Vose 2009 takes a revisionist look at Dominican activities with regard to Muslims and Jews. On historiography, Novikoff 2005 looks at conceptions of both tolerance and intolerance.
  715. Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragón, 1050–1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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  717. Examines the social, institutional, and economic situation of Muslims in Aragón and Catalonia (as distinct from Valencia) in the period up to the 14th century. Close analysis of institutions and case studies based on archival research.
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  719. Dodds, Jerrilynn, María Rosa Menocal, and Abigail Krasner Balbale, eds. The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008.
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  721. The authors concentrate on Castile, especially Toledo, and give particular attention to literary, artistic, and architectural data. The book is noteworthy for its illustrations and sidebars devoted to particular topics and concepts. Good for students and general readers.
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  723. Mann, Vivian B., Thomas F. Glick, and Jerrilynn D. Dodds, eds. Convivencia: Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Medieval Spain. New York: George Braziller, 1992.
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  725. Created in celebration of the 1492 anniversary, in conjunction with an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York, this collection of essays covers the art, literature, and intellectual and material cultures of Muslims, Christians, and especially Jews in medieval Spain. The volume is lavishly illustrated.
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  727. Menocal, María Rosa. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Boston: Little Brown, 2002.
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  729. Using vignettes and short biographies, Menocal emphasizes the positive interactions between the three cultures in medieval Spain. According to her narrative, the culture of tolerance prevalent in Umayyad al-Andalus was destroyed by fundamentalism and religious fanaticism introduced to Spain in the later Middle Ages.
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  731. Nirenberg, David. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
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  733. Using a close reading of contemporary data, Nirenberg contextualizes particular episodes of violence in 14th-century France and the Crown of Aragón to question theories of a generalized culture of persecution.
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  735. Novikoff, Alex. “Between Tolerance and Intolerance in Medieval Spain: An Historiographic Enigma.” Medieval Encounters 11 (2005): 7–36.
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  737. This article summarizes the 19th- and 20th-century historiography concerning concepts of tolerance, intolerance, and convivencia in medieval Spain.
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  739. Pick, Lucy K. Conflict and Coexistence: Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews in Medieval Spain. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
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  741. Pick analyzes the writings of Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada to show that Christian conquests and the promotion of Christianization in the 13th century redefined religious coexistence but did not seek to destroy Muslim and Jewish life in the Crown of Castile.
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  743. Vose, Robin. Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragón. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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  745. Vose provides a revisionist challenge to the commonly accepted idea that Dominicans in 13th-century Spain directed many of their activities (preaching, traveling, writing, and learning languages) toward the conversion of Muslims and Jews.
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  747. Mozarabs in Muslim and Christian Spain
  748. The signification of the term “Mozarab” is disputed, but it is generally used to signify not only Christians living under Islamic rule in al-Andalus but also Arabized Christians living under Christian rule in northern Spain; see Epalza 1992 for an excellent introduction to the subject. The short volume Hitchcock 2008 also examines the complexities of the term “Mozarab” as applied to Christians in al-Andalus and later in Christian Spain (11th–15th centuries). Rincón Álvarez 2003 is a useful reference work, in Spanish, with short articles on various Mozarab topics. Wolf 1988 and Coope 1995 both concentrate on events surrounding the so-called Cordoban Martyrs in the middle of the 9th century, but they provide differing explanations for this phenomenon. Christys 2002, on the other hand, analyzes Mozarab sources from throughout the Umayyad period. Burman 1994, a study of theological treatises written by Mozarabs in the 12th century, is aimed at specialists.
  749. Burman, Thomas E. Religious Polemic and the Intellectual History of the Mozarabs, c. 1050–1200. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1994.
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  751. Through close analysis of treatises written by Mozarabs, probably in Toledo, Burman argues that these authors were aware of not only Islamic polemical traditions but also Eastern Christian writings and contemporary Western intellectual debates. The second half of the book contains an edition and translation of one text.
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  753. Christys, Ann. Christians in al-Andalus, 711–1000. Richmond, UK: Curzon, 2002.
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  755. Christys goes beyond discussion of the famous Martyrs of Cordoba to consider how information on a handful of other Mozarab figures (Recemund, Sara the Goth, and several anonymous authors) can suggest further information about the Christian Andalusi population.
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  757. Coope, Jessica A. The Martyrs of Córdoba: Community and Family Conflict in an Age of Mass Conversion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.
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  759. Drawing on theories about patterns of conversion to Islam, Coope emphasizes the complexities of the Mozarab social and religious context, and especially the stresses created in the community by increasing acculturation, assimilation, conversion, and intermarriage during the 9th century.
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  761. Epalza, Mikel de. “Mozarabs: An Emblematic Christian Minority in Islamic al-Andalus.” In The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Edited by S. Jayyusi, 149–170. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1992.
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  763. Good article summarizing the place and identity of Mozarabs within Andalusi society, and surveying the historiography of the field.
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  765. Hitchcock, Richard. Mozarabs in Medieval and Early Modern Spain: Identities and Influences. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2008.
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  767. Hitchcock demonstrates the heterogeneity of Mozarab identity, and argues that the term is best applied to Arabized Christians living in Toledo after 1085.
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  769. Rincón Álvarez, Manuel. Mozárabes y mozarabías. Salamanca, Spain: Universidad de Salamanca, 2003.
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  771. This volume is organized into brief chapters covering topics relevant to Mozarabs such as chronology, life and customs, liturgy, music, art, architecture (including a list of Mozarab churches), language, literature, and a useful glossary of terms.
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  773. Wolf, Kenneth B. Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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  775. Wolf analyzes the motivations of Eulogius and the Cordoban martyrs in terms of their desire to preserve Christian identity and their self-identification with late Roman martyrs, despite the differences between their Andalusi situation and the earlier Roman context. Available online.
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  777. Muslims under Christian Rule, 12th and 13th Centuries
  778. The conquest of Toledo by Alfonso VI in 1085 ushered in a new context for Muslims in Spain: life under Christian rule. Usually known as “Mudejars,” Muslims living in Christian kingdoms had to adjust to changed circumstances, as did their new Christian rulers. Mudejar life in the first two centuries of Christian rule, through the reigns of Alfonso X of Castile and James I of Aragón, seems to have been rather different from Mudejars’ later circumstances in the 14th and 15th centuries. Powell 1990, a collection of articles on Muslims in different Christian-ruled regions, is a useful introduction to the subject, and good for comparative history. Robert Burns pioneered the field of Mudejar studies in newly Christian Valencia and is a textual expert; Burns 1991 provides a perceptive vision of Muslim life and society on this medieval frontier, while Burns 1975 analyzes the Mudejar economic situation in Valencia during the reign of James I. Guichard 1990 discusses Muslims in Valencia both before and after the conquests of James I, with more attention to archaeological data. In counterpoint to these works on Valencia, Catlos 2004 examines the status of Muslims living under Christian rule in Aragón and Catalonia. Fernández y González 1985 is an older study of Mudejars in Castile, in Spanish, but it includes an important collection of texts.
  779. Burns, Robert I. Medieval Colonialism: Postcrusade Exploitation of Islamic Valencia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975.
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  781. In this study, Burns explores the economic situation of the Kingdom of Valencia under James I, with a close study of records of taxation and other revenues from the Mudejar community, and the financial exploitation of Muslim labor and institutions.
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  783. Burns, Robert I. Islam under the Crusaders: Colonial Survival in the Thirteenth-Century Kingdom of Valencia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
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  785. Burns’s scholarship draws material from the archives of the Crown of Aragón. This volume examines Muslim daily life and Islamic social, religious, urban, and institutional structures under Christian rule. In this and other books, Burns views newly Christian Valencia within a framework of colonialism.
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  787. Catlos, Brian A. The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragón, 1050–1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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  789. Catlos investigates the conditions of Muslim life in Aragón and Catalonia, and proposes new ways to understand their social, institutional, and economic situation. The book includes several archival case studies.
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  791. Fernández y González, Francisco. Estado social y político de los mudéjares de Castilla. Madrid: Hiperión, 1985.
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  793. This classic study of Mudejars in Castile is old-fashioned in its analysis, but the volume remains valuable for the lengthy appendix of primary source texts. The study is in Spanish and the texts are in Latin, Arabic, and vernacular, making this a work for specialists. Originally published in 1866 (Madrid: Joaquin Muñoz).
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  795. Guichard, Pierre. Les musulmans de Valence et la Reconquête (XIe–XIIIe siècles). 2 vols. Damascus, Syria: Institut Français de Damas, 1990.
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  797. This detailed two-volume study is strongest for social and economic analysis, with a sophisticated use of textual and archaeological data to examine population, settlement patterns, fiscal and administrative structures, and seigneuralization. In French.
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  799. Powell, James M., ed. Muslims under Latin Rule. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
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  801. Collection of essays in English by various scholars describing Muslim life in the 12th and 13th century in different regions under Christian rule: Castile, Aragón, Italy, and the Crusader States.
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  803. Muslims under Christian Rule, 14th and 15th Centuries
  804. Most scholars believe that the situation for Mudejars changed during the 14th and 15th centuries, often becoming more difficult as the size of Muslim communities diminished and Christian rule became more restrictive. Most data from this period comes from the archives of the Crown of Aragón. Boswell 1977 is a path-breaking book that opened up this field and concentrates on the middle decades of the 14th century; Ferrer i Mallol 1987 also surveys 14th-century Mudejar life and segregation from Christians. Moving into the 15th century, Meyerson 1991 examines the final decades of Mudejar existence in Valencia, while Miller 2008 demonstrates how Mudejar communities in Aragón preserved and guarded knowledge of Islam and Muslim practice. Echevarría 1999 looks at the attitudes of Christian intellectuals toward Islam in the mid-15th century. Harvey 1990 discusses Muslim life in late medieval Spain; this may be the best introduction to the topic for a general reader.
  805. Boswell, John. The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities under the Crown of Aragón in the Fourteenth Century. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977.
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  807. Boswell was one of the first American scholars to study archival records for Aragonese Mudejars in the 14th century. His book demonstrates significant differences between the experiences in Aragón and Valencia. The shabby printing job by Yale University Press is unfortunate. Available online.
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  809. Echevarría, Ana. The Fortress of Faith: The Attitude towards Muslims in Fifteenth Century Spain. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1999.
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  811. Examines four Christian authors and their treatises against Islam in the mid-15th century, a period of increasing tension in Christian-Muslim relations. Echevarría argues that writings of this period reflect new attitudes that are key to understanding Ferdinand and Isabella’s campaign against Granada.
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  813. Ferrer i Mallol, Maria Teresa. Els sarraïns de la corona catalano-aragonesa en el segle XIV: Segregació i discriminació. Barcelona: Consell Superior d’Investigacions Científiques, 1987.
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  815. Here and in other books, Ferrer i Mallol synthesizes rich data collected by a team of scholars investigating Mudejars in the Crown of Aragón archives. About half of the book is a collection of edited documents. In Catalan.
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  817. Harvey, L. P. Islamic Spain, 1250–1500. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
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  819. One of the most accessible general discussions of Muslims living in both the Christian Spanish kingdoms and in Granada during the later medieval period. Harvey looks at individual reigns chronologically, with careful attention to analysis of sources.
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  821. Meyerson, Mark. The Muslims of Valencia in the Age of Fernando and Isabel: Between Coexistence and Crusade. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
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  823. Meyerson looks at royal policies toward the Muslims in Valencia (home to 30 percent of the remaining Muslim population) in the years from 1479 to 1503. His findings, based on extensive archival research, show solidarity and continuity within the Valencian Mudejar community.
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  825. Miller, Kathryn A. Guardians of Islam: Religious Authority and Muslim Communities in Late Medieval Spain. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
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  827. Focusing primarily on Muslim texts. Miller uncovers the struggles of 15th-century Mudejars to maintain knowledge of Arabic and Islam through scholarship, exchange of texts, and travel to Islamic lands.
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  829. Jews in Muslim and Christian Spain
  830. To some degree, the study of Jews in medieval Spain has evolved separately as its own field, which has often been more allied with medieval Jewish studies than with medieval Spanish studies. Although convivencia has become an important issue, many other questions are seen as particular to the field, with special attention given to the Jewish “Golden Age” of secular Hebrew poetry (see section on Literature) and to the Inquisition period. Books chosen here concentrate on Jewish history in the peninsula, mainly in the period before the Spanish Inquisition. Baer 1961–1966 and Ashtor 1973–1984 are older studies, but they have broad coverage and are still useful for the general reader. The other books are more regional in their scope and limited in their chronology. Klein 2006 examines the Jewish community in Barcelona from 1050 to 1300, and its place within larger Catalan society, and Chazan 1992 looks at the Barcelona disputation of 1263 and its repercussions. Meyerson 2004 is a detailed study of the Jews in Morvedre, near Valencia, while Gampel 1989 studies the lives of Navarrese Jews after their expulsion from Aragón and Castile. Ray 2006 looks at the reconquest period, and challenges assumptions about group identity and continuities within Jewish communities on the Iberian frontier.
  831. Ashtor, Eliyahu. The Jews of Moslem Spain. 3 vols. Translated by Aaron Klein and Jenny Machlowitz Klein. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1973–1984.
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  833. This classic work is outdated in its methodology, but it still contains much information and provides a good introduction for those interested in Jewish life in al-Andalus during the Umayyad and Taifa periods.
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  835. Baer, Yitzhak. A History of the Jews in Christian Spain. Translated by Louis Schiffman. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1961–1966.
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  837. Like the survey Ashtor 1973–1984, this work also shows its age, but it remains an accessible survey of Jewish life in Christian Spain from the 11th century to the 15th century. Many of the works listed in this section provide reassessments of Baer’s foundational work.
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  839. Chazan, Robert. Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992.
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  841. Much has been written about the Barcelona debate of 1263, but here Chazan analyzes the two contemporary accounts of the event (in Latin and Hebrew), looking in depth at their language, context, and polemical style without trying to make a definitive judgment about what actually happened.
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  843. Gampel, Benjamin R. The Last Jews on Iberian Soil: Navarrese Jewry, 1479–1498. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989.
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  845. After the expulsion of Jews from Aragón and Castile in 1492, Jews continued to survive for a few more years in Portugal (until 1496) and Navarre (until 1498). Using extensive archival research, Gampel investigates the social and economic life of the Navarrese Jewish community during its final years of existence.
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  847. Klein, Elka. Jews, Christian Society and Royal Power in Medieval Barcelona. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
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  849. Using archival documents, Klein integrates the Jewish community of Barcelona within the broader social context of this medieval Christian city, giving special attention to the role of the crown and illuminating a life shared by Jews and Christians.
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  851. Meyerson, Mark D. A Jewish Renaissance in Fifteenth-Century Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
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  853. Meyerson challenges the assumption of Jewish decline after the pogroms of 1391. Instead, this book documents a thriving Jewish community in Morvedre and Jewish relations with conversos, Muslims, and old Christians. This is a companion to Meyerson’s book Jews in an Iberian Frontier Kingdom: Society, Economy, and Politics in Morvedre, 1248–1391 (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2004).
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  855. Ray, Jonathan. The Sephardic Frontier: The Reconquista and the Jewish Community in Medieval Iberia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.
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  857. Jews, like Christians, were drawn to frontier towns of the 12th and 13th century, and Ray’s pioneering study illuminates Jewish motivations and participation in this settlement and Jewish society on the frontier.
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  859. Literature
  860. Although medieval Spanish literature has traditionally been limited to works in Castilian, recent studies are open to a broader and more complex understanding of the field, and they embrace multiple languages and cultures as part of a medieval Iberian literary tradition. Gies 2004 provides a solid general survey of Christian Spanish literature in the Middle Ages and beyond. López Estrada 1962 looks at medieval Castilian literature, and Menocal, et al. 2000 discusses Andalusi literature in a collection of essays. Brann 2002 takes a comparative approach to Arabic and Hebrew literary texts. Decter 2007 traces the transition of Hebrew literature from a Muslim to a Christian setting during the 12th and 13th centuries. Wiegers 1994, a study of aljamiado (romance written using the Arabic alphabet), is more aimed at specialists, with several texts included as appendixes. As well as the books listed here, see also references in Primary Sources.
  861. Brann, Ross. Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002.
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  863. Brann investigates how Andalusi Muslims and Jews viewed each other through an analysis of Arabic and Hebrew historical and literary texts. Throughout, Brann emphasizes the texts themselves, and includes many translated passages, and reconstructs social meaning.
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  865. Decter, Jonathan. Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
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  867. Divided into two sections, one on poetry and the other on rhymed prose; Decter analyzes Jewish reflections on the cultural transition from Muslim to Christian rule, along with the changes in genre, content, style, and inspiration generated by this shifting context.
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  869. Gies, David Thatcher. The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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  871. One section (containing chapters 2–6) of this general survey is devoted to the medieval period. Each of the five medieval chapters is written by a different scholar, and they discuss poetry, prose, theater, and other literature produced in medieval Christian Spain.
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  873. López Estrada, Francisco. Introducción a la literatura medieval española. Madrid: Editorial Gredos, 1962.
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  875. Detailed survey and discussion of the many different genres of medieval Castilian literature. In Spanish.
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  877. Menocal, Maria Rosa, Raymond Scheindlin, and Michael Sells, eds. The Literature of al-Andalus. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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  879. This indispensable and accessible collection of twenty-seven essays by different scholars takes a comprehensive and open-minded approach to Andalusi literature, including works by Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Organized in thematic clusters, chapters include discussions of space, music, genre, and portraits of individual authors. Essays are in English.
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  881. Wiegers, Gerard. Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado: Yça of Segovia (fl. 1450), His Antecedants and Successors. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 1994.
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  883. Wiegers examines the evolution and use of aljamiado (romance vernacular written in Arabic characters), and provides a detailed analysis of known texts in aljamiado, with particular attention to the work and influence of the 15th-century author Yça Gidelli of Segovia.
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  885. Women in Medieval Spain
  886. Recent interest in the history of women has created its own subfield within medieval Spanish history, with new studies of the roles, writings, and perceptions of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish women in the peninsula. There are a number of good studies of individual women, such as Queen Isabella, but the books selected here look at more general topics. On Christian women, the pioneering work Dillard 1984 argues for the critical importance of women in the settlement and stabilization of new Castilian towns. The essays in Vann 1993 examine issues of queenship and female power. On women in Muslim Spain, Marín 2000 is a magisterial survey of the topic, in Spanish, while Viguera 1989 provides a collection of fifteen essays by prominent scholars examining various aspects of Andalusi women’s history. Shatzmiller 2007 covers women’s economic affairs in 15th-century Granada and makes comparison with female property rights elsewhere in the medieval and modern Islamic world. From a more literary perspective, Mirrer 1996 compares representations of women and religious minorities in medieval Castilian literature, while Surtz 1995 investigates gender, spirituality, and religious authority through an analysis of the lives and writings of five religious women in the 15th and early 16th centuries. Mérida Jiménez and Weissberger 2002 is a useful short bibliography, with a literary emphasis, of works by and about medieval women in the Iberian Peninsula.
  887. Dillard, Heath. Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society, 1100–1300. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
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  889. Dillard mines data from urban charters (fueros) to build a picture of Castilian frontier society, with chapters discussing secular townswomen, wives, widows, mistresses, and prostitutes. Available online.
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  891. Marín, Manuela. Mujeres en al-Andalus. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2000.
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  893. Fundamental Spanish survey of the topic, including discussions of social class, work, property holding, marriage, and family. As part of the series Estudios onomástico-biográficos de al-Andalus, this study includes meticulous documentation and emphasizes evidence on individual Muslim women.
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  895. Mérida Jiménez, Rafael, and Barbara Weissberger. Women in Medieval Iberia: A Selected Bibliography. Eugene: University of Oregon, 2002.
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  897. Although Muslim and Jewish women are included in this bibliography, most of the coverage is devoted to Christian women in Spain and Portugal. The emphasis is strongly literary.
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  899. Mirrer, Louise. Women, Jews, and Muslims in the Texts of Reconquest Castile. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
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  901. Mirrer argues against harmonious coexistence by showing how stereotypes of women and religious minorities emphasize feminization and lack of access to power in the face of the increasing masculinization and militarization of Castilian society.
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  903. Shatzmiller, Maya. Her Day in Court: Women’s Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
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  905. Shatzmiller examines legal documents concerning female property in Nasrid Granada, including dowry and inheritance, labor and wages, and women’s rights over their own bodies.
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  907. Surtz, Ronald E. Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
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  909. Surtz discusses the lives and works of important female religious writers of the late medieval and early modern period: Teresa of Cartagena, Constanza of Castile, Maria de Ajofrin, Maria de Santa Domingo, and Juana de Santa Cruz.
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  911. Vann, Theresa, ed. Queens, Regents, and Potentates. Papers from the International Medieval Congress, held at Western Michigan University in May 1991, and the Texas Medieval Association/Middle America Medieval Association Conference, held at the University of North Texas in February 1992. Dallas: Academia, 1993.
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  913. A collection of nine studies examining individual medieval queens and noble women, mainly from Spain.
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  915. Viguera, Maria J., ed. La Mujer en al-Andalus: Reflejos históricos de su actividad y categorías sociales. Madrid: Universidad Autónoma, 1989.
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  917. Essays include studies of female labor, education, scholarship, and writing. Looks at women in cities and in the countryside, in different social groups, and in different periods. Mostly in Spanish.
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