Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lleida and former director of the Institute for Research into Identities and Society. He has served as an invited professor in the universities of Paris-I, Poitiers, Yale, UNAM (Mexico), Cambridge and ENS (Lyon). He is doctor honoris causa of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina).Luís Adão da Fonseca is Professor of Medieval History (retired) at the University of Porto and President of the Scientific Council of the Centro de Estudos da População, Economia e Sociedade. He has served as an invited professor in the universities of Navarra, São Paulo, Johns Hopkins and EHESS (Paris).

"In conclusion, Catalonia and Portugal: The Iberian Peninsula from the Periphery offers scholars a rich assortment of contributions that address several aspects and periods of Portuguese and Catalan history, from the Middle Ages to the recent past." (Robert Patrick Newcomb, e-Journal of Portuguese History, Vol. 14, number 1, 2016)

• Contents: Flocel Sabaté/Luis Adão da Fonseca: The Spain that never was: The Iberian peninsula from its peripheries – Luis A. García Moreno: La conquista musulmana del noreste hispano. Supuestos y consecuencias – Michel Zimmermann : Écriture diplomatique et mémoire documentaire aux origines de l’histoire catalane – Josep Moran/Joan Anton Rabella: The process of scripturising Catalan – Philip D. Rasico: Cries of Abuse and Injustice in Early Catalan: Notes on the Language of the Rancures, Clams and Querimònies (11th and 12th Centuries) – José Augusto de Sotomayor-Pizarro: Political Origins of Portugal. From Country to Kingdom (1096-1143/1157) – Lúcia Rosas: Architecture and Identity – Tomàs de Montagut: Cuius Generalis: The erudite notion of Justice in the Crown of Aragon and Catalonia (12th-18th Centuries) – Stephano Maria Cingolani: The myth of the origins and royal power in the late medieval Crown of Aragon – Paula Pinto Costa/Luís Adão da Fonseca: Historiography and Portuguese identity: How in Medieval Portugal the kingdom is seen through the eyes of the Iberian Peninsula – Maria Cristina Pimenta: The perception of the Iberian Peninsula from the periphery: Portugal in the fifteenth century – Andrea Knox: Nuns on the Periphery? Irish Dominican Nuns and assimilation in Lisbon – Vicent Josep Escartí: The word Espanya («Spain») in 15th and 16th Century Catalan literature – Antoni Simon: The concept of Spain in Catalan and Hispanic political thought from the era of reason of state – Robert von Friedeburg: How «new» is the «New Monarchy»? Clashes between princes and nobility in Europe’s Iron Century – Pedro Cardim: Portugal unido, y separado. Propaganda and the discourse of identity between the Habsburgs and the Braganza – Eulàlia Miralles: National history, own language and otherness: Catalonia in the 16th-18th Centuries – Giovanni C. Cattini/David Cao: Uses of the Medieval Past in the Political Culture of 19th Century Catalonia – Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira: Historical Reference in the 19th Century Portuguese Discourse – Òscar Costa: Re-imagining the State: Pan-Iberianism and Political Interventionism in the Context of Catalan Nationalism – Dick E.H. de Boer: Iberian identities - some final remarks.