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The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

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Date de parution	21 avril 2015
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In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies
HISPANIC ISSUES • VOLUME 41
In and Of the Mediterranean: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Studies
Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández EDITORS
Vanderbilt University Press
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
2015
© 2015 Vanderbilt University Press
All rights reserved
First Edition 2015
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Manufactured in the United States of America
The editors gratefully acknowledge assistance from the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Minnesota; and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Iowa
The complete list of volumes in the Hispanic Issues series begins on page 305
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
In and of the Mediterranean : medieval and early modern Iberian studies / Michelle M. Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, eds.
pages cm. — (Hispanic issues ; 41)
ISBN 978-0-8265-2029-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-8265-2030-2 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-8265-2031-9 (ebook)
1. Iberian Peninsula—Relations—Mediterranean Region. 2. Mediterranean Region—Relations—Iberian Peninsula. 3. Group identity—Iberian Peninsula—History. 4. Group identity—Mediterranean Region—History. 5. Iberian Peninsula—Civilization. 6. Iberian Peninsula—Historiography. 7. Iberian Peninsula—Intellectual life. 8. Spanish literature—History and criticism. 9. Portuguese literature—History and criticism. I. Hamilton, Michelle, 1969- II. Silleras-Fernandez, Nuria.
DP86.M38I5 2014
303.48'24601822—dc23
2014013075
HISPANIC ISSUES
Nicholas Spadaccini
Editor-in-Chief
Luis Martín-Estudillo
Managing Editor
Ana Forcinito
Associate Managing Editor
Nelsy Echávez-Solano and William Viestenz
Associate Editors
Cortney Benjamin, Megan Corbin, Scott Ehrenburg, and Pablo Rodríguez Balbontín
Assistant Editors
*Advisory Board/Editorial Board
Rolena Adorno (Yale University)
Román de la Campa (Unversity of Pennsylvania)
David Castillo (University at Buffalo)
Jaime Concha (University of California, San Diego)
Tom Conley (Harvard University)
William Egginton (Johns Hopkins University)
Brad Epps (University of Cambridge)
David W. Foster (Arizona State University)
Edward Friedman (Vanderbilt University)
Wlad Godzich (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones (Dartmouth College)
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Stanford University)
*Carol A. Klee (University of Minnesota)
Eukene Lacarra Lanz (Universidad del País Vasco)
Tom Lewis (University of Iowa)
Jorge Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Raúl Marrero-Fente (University of Minnesota)
Kelly McDonough (University of Texas at Austin)
Walter D. Mignolo (Duke University)
*Louise Mirrer (The New-York Historical Society)
Mabel Moraña (Washington University in St. Louis)
Alberto Moreiras (Texas A & M University)
Bradley Nelson (Concordia University, Montreal)
Michael Nerlich (Université Blaise Pascal)
*Francisco Ocampo (University of Minnesota)
Antonio Ramos-Gascón (University of Minnesota)
Jenaro Talens (Universitat de València)
Miguel Tamen (Universidade de Lisboa)
Teresa Vilarós (Texas A & M University)
Iris M. Zavala (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Santos Zunzunegui (Universidad del País Vasco)
Contents
Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction
Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández
1. Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval “Spain,” and the Mediterranean: An Historiographical Op-Ed
Brian A. Catlos
2. The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World: A Comparative Perspective
Gerard Wiegers
3. The Princess and the Palace: On Hawwa’ bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family
Manuela Marín
4. Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey: Seafaring and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio
Nicholas M. Parmley
5. Between the Seas: Apolonio and Alexander
Simone Pinet
6. The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean: Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner’s Crònica
Vicente Lledó-Guillem
7. Empire in the Old World: Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479–1516
Andrew W. Devereux
8. Singing the Scene of History in Fernão Lopes
Josiah Blackmore
9. The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes : Historiography and the “Marvelous” in the Sixteenth Century
Eleazar Gutwirth
10. Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora
David A. Wacks
11. Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza
Ryan D. Giles
12. Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context: Liberality and Deception in Cervantes’s El amante liberal
Luis F. Avilés
13. Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes’s Drama of Captivity
Barbara Fuchs
Afterword. Ebbs and Flows: Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean Perspective
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini
Contributors
Index
Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction
Michelle M. Hamilton and Núria Silleras-Fernández
In the last decade or so Mediterranean studies has gone from constituting a rather vague approach to a region imagined in geographical terms, to coalescing as a recognized field of research and teaching—a process driven in part by its inherent imperative to interrogate established categories of cultural and historical analysis. In our era of globalization, transnationalism, and oceanic and diasporic studies, the Mediterranean has come to captivate the imagination of scholars who see in it an alternative to the paradigms that have dominated scholarly discourse since the inception of the modern academy. It has provoked a reconsideration of the nation-state model and of continental and civilizational paradigms that up to now have been accepted a priori as the fundamental building blocks of history and culture. Even though the nation-state remains the dominant form of cultural identity and political organization, and in large part the rationale for the current organization of the nationally oriented language departments in which many of us find ourselves, a more globalizing and comparative construct, such as the Mediterranean, offers to help us understand difficult and contentious issues that sit at the foundation of our assumptions, not the least of which is the relationship between political organization and cultural and national identities. For all the lip service paid to comparative approaches and interdisciplinarity in the academy in the past few decades, na tional models still tend to dominate humanities disciplines—and civilizational divisions, such as “Western,” “Islamic,” or “African” are often taken for granted, but seldom clearly defined, let alone put to the test.
This has certainly been the case with regard to Iberian studies in the American academy. History departments inevitably place the study of the peninsula within the European concentration of the curriculum, whether the course in question is on Castile, al-Andalus, or the Almohads. This may be less true of those contemporary departments of Spanish and Portuguese that in the last decade have started to explicitly broaden the traditional category of “Spanish and Portuguese”—often imposed on them by others, but sometimes generated internally and then internalized—by reconfiguring themselves as departments or centers for Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures (Resina; Menocal, “Why Iberia?” 7). Certainly this change has helped to foster an awareness of the complex nature of Iberian culture—a characteristic it shares with the Mediterranean approach. Both endeavor to loosen nationally defined fields from the geographic borders and the national shadow of hegemonic linguistic agendas and to consider them on broader, cultural terms. Such a revision is particularly apropos when one focuses on the medieval and early modern periods, when the notion of the nation-state, discretely bounded geographically, linguistically, and culturally, is clearly anachronistic. Even for a scholar such as José Antonio Maravall, who carried out a thorough study of “The Concept of Spain in the Middle Ages,” Spain is primarily a geographical concept—the scene where a human group shares history, and even more importantly, historiography (17–32). But these are “imagined communities” (Anderson); for, as Patrick Geary puts it, “The real history of the nations that populated Europe in the early Middle Ages begins not in the sixth century but in the eighteenth” (15). This moving away from modern nation-state models has also given a new and deserved protagonism to languages and cultures that fell between the cracks of the national models. In the case of Iberian Studies, this broader perspective invites the inclusion of other peninsular languages and literatures, such as Catalan, Euskera, Aragonese, Galician, Portuguese, Occitan, and Latin, as well as Arabic and Hebrew, and texts and traditions, such as Aljamiado, that do not clearly fall into a single linguistic-cultural category (Dagenais 42).
As the studies in the current volume reflect, the Iberian Peninsula constituted a truly polyglossic space, in which many authors composed their works in more than one language and worked in and were influenced by several literary traditions or had the potential of doing so. In this sense, as David Wacks’s points out, Iberian literatures were part of a polysystem (13). Of course, this fact is not new to scholars of Iberian history and culture, and in the studies included in In and of the Mediterranean the reader will find many of the primary texts in which such polyglossy can be found, including those produced at the court of Alfonso X the Learned (b. 1221, r. 1252–1284), King of Castile, León, and Galicia. The latter’s cultural agenda is characterized by a preference for both Galician/Portuguese, used in the compo