Plural Peninsula: Studies in Honour of Professor Simon Barton

Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, Ph.D. (2009), University of Exeter, is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Lincoln, and President of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. Her publications on medieval Iberian social and cultural history include Friendship in Medieval Iberia (Ashgate 2014, Routledge 2020).

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAntonella Liuzzo Scorpo Part 1: Emotional Narratives: Pragmatism, Symbolism and Performance1 The Restless Sea: Storm, Shipwreck and the Mediterranean, c.1000–1700Amy G. Remensnyder2 A Peninsula in Flames: War and Emotions in the Cantigas de Santa MaríaSimon R. Doubleday3 ‘Emotional Diplomacy’: Trust and Political Communication in Thirteenth-Century IberiaAntonella Liuzzo ScorpoPart 2: Re-assessing Historical and Historiographical Narratives4 Adapting History to Modern Values? Re-evaluating Vellido DolfosFernando Luis Corral5 Praying for Conquest in Thirteenth-Century Castile: The Oratio in tempore belli adversus SaracenosTeresa Witcombe6 Reframing “Reconquista”. Hernando de Baeza’s Take on the Conquest of GranadaTeresa TinsleyPart 3: Exchanges, Tradition and Cross-Fertilisation: Change and Continuity7 The View from the Edge: Gallaecia and the Byzantine Mediterranean in the Sixth and Seventh CenturiesJamie Wood8 A Forma Mesquite in Formam Ecclesiae: Toledo, Between Rodrigo and Ibn HudJerrilynn D. Dodds9 A Christian Iberian Attack on Twelfth-Century Medina? Keys to Understanding an Unusual StoryMaribel Fierro10 Jewish Officials at Royal Courts in al-Andalus and Castile (Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries): Continuities and DisjunctionsMaya Soifer IrishPart 4: Managing Conflict: Social, Physical and Imagined Boundaries11 Sex, Theft, and Violence: Conflict and Local Society in the Mountains of León around the Year 1000Iñaki Martín Viso12 The Aristocracy against the King in the Twelfth Century: Rebellion as Opposition to Alfonso VII “Imperator Hispaniae”Sonia Vital Fernández13 Advancing Dogs and Rushing Lions: Animals and the Imagery of Conflict in the Poem of AlmeríaAlun WilliamsPart 5: Authority, Leadership, Gender and Power Management14 Once and Future Queen: Urraca ‘Regina Hispaniae’ (r. 1109–1126)Therese Martin15 Between Queen Regnant and Queen Consort: Berenguela of Castile, Beatrice of Swabia and the Nuances of QueenshipAna Echevarría Arsuaga16 Speaking Truth to Power: Authority, Social Status, and Gender in Thirteenth-Century Castilian Witness TestimonyJanna BianchiniIndex