Cross, Crescent and Conversion

Simon Barton is Professor of Spanish History at the University of Exeter. He has published extensively on the history of medieval Spain, including The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile (Cambridge UP, 1997) and (with Richard Fletcher) The World of El Cid (Manchester UP 2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Peter Linehan is Fellow and Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, and the author of numerous works on various aspects of the history of medieval Spain. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society and Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid).

"...These brief summaries fail to do justice to the variety, scholarship, and good humor present throughout this collection. It is a work of high quality, both in content and presentation, assembled with the respect and admiration felt by all who knew the honoree. Coming too soon in the life and career of its remarkable subject, the work combines within its pages what Campbell’s opening memoir identifies as Fletcher’s own unique synthesis of “a sometimes ironic sense of the past with a thoughtfulness edging on melancholy” (p. 15)..." Lorraine Attreed (College of the Holy Cross), AARHMS Spring 2009

• Preface .. viiList of Abbreviations .. xiBibliography of the Published Writings of Richard Fletcher .. xiii1. Richard Fletcher as an Historian .. 16James Campbell, University of Oxford2. Rome, Canterbury and Wearmouth-Jarrow: Three Viewpointson Augustine’s Mission .. 17Roger Collins, University of Edinburgh, and Judith McClure, St. George’s School for Girls, Edinburgh3. Gregory of Tours, the Visigoths and Spain .. 43Edward James, University College Dublin4. Placenames in Early Medieval Documents: the Case of Cabra .. 65Roger Wright, University of Liverpool5. Picnic at Madinat al-Zahra .. 87Ann Christys, University of Leeds6. The Rediscovery of Count Pedro Ansúrez .. 109Bernard F. Reilly, Villanova University7. Principes et Populus: Civil Society and the First Crusade .. 127Christopher Tyerman, University of Oxford8. Islam and the West: a View from Twelfth-Century León .. 153Simon Barton, University of Exeter9. The Tomb of St. James: the View from the Other Side .. 175John Williams, University of Pittsburgh10. The Cathedral Chapter of Lugo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Reform and Retrenchment .. 193James D’Emilio, University of South Florida11. Fuentes isidorianas en De altera uita de Lucas de Tuy .. 227Emma Falque, Universidad de Sevilla12. Columpna firmissima: D. Gil Torres, the Cardinal of Zamora .. 241Peter Linehan, University of Cambridge13. The Abundance and Scarcity of Food in the Inquisition Records of Languedoc .. 263Peter Biller, University of York14. From the Belles of St Clement’s to the Book of Good Love: the Late Survival of Mozarabic Culture in Toledo .. 277Ian Michael, University of Oxford15. Round and About Water: Christians and Muslims in the Ebro Valley in the Fourteenth Century .. 293Esther Pascua, University of St Andrews16. New Light on the converso Debate? The Jewish Christianity of Alfonso de Cartagena and Juan de Torquemada .. 311John Edwards, University of Oxford17. The Fall of the Roman Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries .. 327Ian Wood, University of LeedsIndex