Table of contents :
List of figures xiii
Notes on contributors xv
Preface xxii
Acknowledgements xxv

PART I: Medieval Iberia (eighth–fifteenth centuries) 1
History, politics and cultural studies 3
1. Teofilo F. Ruiz, Festive traditions in Castile and Aragon in the late Middle Ages:
ceremonies and symbols of power 5
2. George D. Greenia, Faith and footpaths: pilgrimage in medieval Iberia 16
3. Jonathan Jarrett, Before the Reconquista: frontier relations in medieval Iberia, 718 to 1031 27
4. John Edwards, The faiths of Abraham in medieval Iberia 41
5. Michelle M. Hamilton, Medieval Iberian cultures in contact: Iberian cultural production as translation and adaptation 50
Literature and visual culture 63
6. Lesley K. Twomey, Court and convent: senses and spirituality in Hispanic medieval women’s writing 65
7. David A. Wacks, An interstitial history of medieval Iberian poetry 79
8. Julio-C?sar Santoyo, Revisiting the history of medieval translation in the Iberian Peninsula 93
9. Robert Folger, Subjectivity and hermeneutics in medieval Iberia: the example of the Libro de buen amor 105
10. Manuel Casti?eiras, Patrons, artists and audiences in the making of visual culture in medieval Iberia (eleventh–thirteenth centuries) 118

PART II: The Iberian Peninsula in the Golden Age (sixteenth–seventeenth centuries) 135
History, politics and cultural studies 137
11. Alexander Ponsen and Antonio Feros, The early modern Iberian empires: emulation, alliance, competition 139
12. Helen Rawlings, The Iberian Inquisitions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: between coercion and accommodation 152
13. Kathryn M. Mayers, The way behind and the way ahead: cartography and the state of Spain in Cabeza De Vaca’s Relaci?n 162
14. Rachel L. Burk, Purity and impurity of blood in early modern Iberia 173
15. E. Michael Gerli, The expulsion of the Moriscos: seven monumental paintings from the kingdom of Valencia 184
Literature and visual culture 201
16. Rosa Navarro Dur?n, The influence of Tirant lo Blanch on Golden Age Iberian authors 203
17. Frederick A. de Armas, Women from the periphery in Don Quixote: ekphrasis versus counter-narrative 213
18. Jonathan Thacker, “Para tiempos de veras / se ejercitan en las burlas:” some uses of rehearsal on the Golden Age stage 226
19. Rodrigo Cacho Casal, Iberian myths and American history in Balbuena’s El Bernardo 238
20. Richard Rabone, Fallen idols? Vice and virtue in the iconography of Icarus and Phaethon 249

PART III: The Iberian Peninsula in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 265
History, politics and cultural studies 267
21. Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, Hispano-Irish women writers of Spain’s late Enlightenment period 269
22. Jes?s Cruz, The end of empire and the birth of the modern nation, 1808 to 1868 282
23. Jordi Canal, Carlists against liberalism: counter-revolution in the Iberian Peninsula during the nineteenth century 293
24. Javier Fern?ndez Sebasti?n, From patriotism to liberalism: political concepts in revolution 305
25. Benjamin Fraser, The modern city, 1850 to 1900: urban planning and culture in Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao 319
Literature and visual culture 331
26. Santiago P?rez Isasi, Building nations through words: Iberian identities in nineteenth-century literary historiography 333
27. Ronald Puppo, The poetized peopling of nineteenth-century Spain/s 344
28. Elisa Mart?-L?pez, Death and the crisis of representation in Narc?s Oller’s La febre d’or and P?rez Gald?s’s La de Bringas 357
29. Alberto Romero Ferrer, Performing the Peninsula: costumbrismo and the theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 368
30. Andrew Schulz, Painting in the Spanish Enlightenment: artists at court and in the academy 380

PART IV: The Iberian Peninsula during the twentieth century 397
History, politics and cultural studies 399
31. Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, The idea of empire in Portuguese and Spanish life, 1890 to 1975 401
32. George Esenwein, The fate of Spain’s “nationalisms” during the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to 1939 413
33. Sebastiaan Faber, Beyond the nation: Spanish Civil War exile and the problem of Iberian cultural history 427
34. Raquel Merino-?lvarez, Translation and censorship under Franco and Salazar: Irish theatre on Iberian stages 439
35. Pamela Radcliff, Unsettling the Iberian transitions to democracy of the 1970s 450
Literature and visual culture 463
36. Agust?n S?nchez Vidal, Bu?uel, Lorca, and Dal?: a new tradition 465
37. Mar?a Li?eira, Reclaiming the goods: rendering Spanish-language writing in Catalan and Galician 478
38. David K. Herzberger, Postwar Spanish fiction and the pursuit of Spanish reality 490
39. Isabel Capeloa Gil, Celluloid consensus: a comparative approach to film in Portugal during World War II 501
40. Brad Epps, (Inter)national spectres: cinema in mid-twentieth-century Iberia 516

PART V: Iberian studies in the twenty-first century 529
History, politics and cultural studies 531
41. Richard Gillespie, Pro-sovereignty politics in Catalonia and the Basque Country: are the two cases comparable? 533
42. Mari Jose Olaziregi, Going global: the international journey of Basque culture and literature 547
43. Jos? Luis Mart?, Democracy, indignados, and the republican tradition in Spain 558
44. Enric Castell?, Mediatizing a past of conflict: the Spanish Civil War through TV documentaries in the twenty-first century 570
45. Cristi?n H. Ricci, A transmodern approach to Afro-Iberian literature 583
Literature and visual culture 597
46. Joan Ramon Resina, Fermented memory: the intemperance of history in the narrative of Ram?n Saizarbitoria 599
47. Laura Lonsdale, Of treasure maps and dictionaries: searching for home in Carlota Fainberg, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao and L’?ltim patriarca 613
48. Antonia L. Delgado-Poust, Rewriting the Iberian female detective: deciphering truth, memory, and identity in the twenty-first-century novel 626
49. Samuel Amago, Reflexivity in Iberian documentary film 639
50. Javier Mu?oz-Basols and Micaela Mu?oz-Calvo, Human memory and the act of remembering in contemporary Iberian graphic novels 652
Colour illustrations 671
Index 703