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The Routledge Companion to Iberian Studies takes an important place in the scholarly landscape by bringing together a compelling collection of essays that reflect the evolving ways in which researchers think and write about the Iberian Peninsula.

Features include:

  • A comprehensive approach to the different languages and cultural traditions of the Iberian Peninsula;
  • Five chronological sections spanning the period from the Middle Ages to the 21st century;
  • A state-of-the-art account of the field, reaffirming Iberian Studies as a dynamic and evolving discipline with promising areas for future research;
  • An array of topics of an interdisciplinary nature (history and politics, language and literature, cultural studies and visual arts), focusing on the cultural distinctiveness of Iberian traditions;
  • New perspectives and avenues of inquiry that aim to promote a comparative mode within Iberian Studies and Hispanism.

The fifty authoritative, original essays will provide readers with a diverse cross-section of texts that will enrich their knowledge of Iberian Studies from an international perspective.

Table of Contents

PART I - Medieval Iberia (8th-15th Centuries)

History, Politics and Cultural Studies

1 Festive Traditions in Castile and Aragon in the Late Middle Ages: Ceremonies and Symbols of Power TEOFILO F. RUIZ 2 Faith and Footpaths: Pilgrimage in Medieval Iberia GEORGE D. GREENIA 3 Before the Reconquista: Frontier Relations in Medieval Iberia, 718–1031 JONATHAN JARRETT 4 The Faiths of Abraham in Medieval Iberia JOHN EDWARDS 5 Medieval Iberian Cultures in Contact: Iberian Cultural Production as Translation and Adaptation MICHELLE M. HAMILTON

Literature and Visual Culture

6 Court and Convent: Senses and Spirituality in Hispanic Medieval Women’s Writing LESLEY K. TWOMEY 7 An Interstitial History of Medieval Iberian Poetry DAVID A. WACKS 8 Revisiting the History of Medieval Translation in the Iberian Peninsula JULIO-CÉSAR SANTOYO 9 Subjectivity and Hermeneutics in Medieval Iberia: The Example of the Libro de buen amor ROBERT FOLGER 10 Patrons, Artists and Audiences in the Making of Visual Culture in Medieval Iberia (11th-13th Centuries) MANUEL CASTIÑEIRAS

PART II - The Iberian Peninsula in the Golden Age (16th and 17th Centuries)

History, Politics and Cultural Studies

11 The Early Modern Iberian Empires: Emulation, Alliance, Competition ALEXANDER PONSEN AND ANTONIO FEROS 12 The Iberian Inquisitions in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Between Coercion and Accommodation HELEN RAWLINGS 13 The Way Behind and the Way Ahead: Cartography and the State of Spain in Cabeza de Vaca’s Relación KATHRYN M. MAYERS 14 Purity and Impurity of Blood in Early Modern Iberia RACHEL L. BURK 15 The Expulsion of the Moriscos: Seven Monumental Paintings from the Kingdom of Valencia E. MICHAEL GERLI

Literature and Visual Culture

16 The Influence of Tirant lo Blanch on Golden Age Authors ROSA NAVARRO DURÁN 17 Women from the Periphery in Don Quixote: Ekphrasis versus Counter-Narrative FREDERICK A. DE ARMAS 18 "Para tiempos de veras / se ejercitan en las burlas:" Some Uses of Rehearsal on the Golden Age Stage JONATHAN THACKER 19 Iberian Myths and American History in Balbuena’s El Bernardo RODRIGO CACHO CASAL 20 Fallen Idols? Vice and Virtue in the Iconography of Icarus and Phaethon RICHARD RABONE

PART III - The Iberian Peninsula in the 18th and 19th Centuries

History, Politics and Cultural Studies

21 Hispano-Irish Women Writers of Spain’s Late Enlightenment Period ELIZABETH FRANKLIN LEWIS 22 The End of Empire and the Birth of the Modern Nation, 1808-1868 JESÚS CRUZ 23 Carlists against Liberalism: Counter-Revolution in the Iberian Peninsula during the Nineteenth Century JORDI CANAL 24 From Patriotism to Liberalism: Political Concepts in Revolution JAVIER FERNÁNDEZ SEBASTIÁN 25 The Modern City, 1850-1900: Urban Planning and Urban Culture in Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao BENJAMIN FRASER

Literature and Visual Culture

26 Building Nations through Words: Iberian Identities in 19th-Century Literary Historiography SANTIAGO PÉREZ ISASI 27 The Poetized Peopling of Nineteenth-Century Spain/s RONALD PUPPO 28 Death and the Crisis of Representation in Narcís Oller’s La febre d’or and Pérez Galdós’s La de Bringas ELISA MARTÍ-LÓPEZ 29 Performing the Peninsula: Costumbrismo and the Theatre of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries ALBERTO ROMERO FERRER 30 Painting in the Spanish Enlightenment: Artists at Court and in the Academy ANDREW SCHULZ

PART IV - The Iberian Peninsula during the 20th Century

History, Politics and Cultural Studies

31 The Idea of Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Life, 1890-1975 FILIPE RIBEIRO DE MENESES 32 The Fate of Spain’s "Nationalisms" during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 GEORGE ESENWEIN 33 Beyond the Nation: Spanish Civil War Exile and the Problem of Iberian Cultural History SEBASTIAAN FABER 34 Translation and Censorship under Franco and Salazar: Irish Theatre on Iberian Stages RAQUEL MERINO-ÁLVAREZ 35 Unsettling the Iberian Transitions to Democracy of the 1970s PAMELA RADCLIFF

Literature and Visual Culture

36 Buñuel, Lorca, and Dalí: A New Tradition AGUSTÍN SÁNCHEZ VIDAL 37 Reclaiming the Goods: Rendering Spanish-Language Writing into Catalan and Galician MARÍA LIÑEIRA 38 Postwar Spanish Fiction and the Pursuit of Spanish Reality DAVID K. HERZBERGER 39 Celluloid Consensus: A Comparative Approach to Film in Portugal during World War II ISABEL CAPELOA GIL 40 (Inter)national Spectres: Cinema in Mid-Twentieth-Century Iberia BRAD EPPS

PART V - Iberian Studies in the 21st Century

History, Politics and Cultural Studies

41 Pro-Sovereignty Politics in Catalonia and the Basque Country: Are the Two Cases Comparable? RICHARD GILLESPIE 42 Going Global: The International Journey of Basque Culture and Literature MARI JOSE OLAZIREGI 43 Democracy, Indignados, and the Republican Tradition in Spain JOSÉ LUIS MARTÍ 44 Mediatizing a Past of Conflict. The Spanish Civil War through TV Documentaries in the Twenty-First Century ENRIC CASTELLÓ 45 A Transmodern Approach to Afro-Iberian Literature CRISTIÁN H. RICCI

Literature and Visual Culture

46 Fermented Memory: The Intemperance of History in the Narrative of Ramón Saizarbitoria JOAN RAMON RESINA 47 Of Treasure Maps and Dictionaries: Searching for Home in Carlota Fainberg, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao and L’últim patriarca LAURA LONSDALE 48 Rewriting the Iberian Female Detective: Deciphering Truth, Memory, and Identity in the Twenty-First-Century Novel ANTONIA DELGADO-POUST 49 Reflexivity in Iberian Documentary Film SAMUEL AMAGO 50 Human Memory and the Act of Remembering in Contemporary Iberian Graphic Novels JAVIER MUÑOZ-BASOLS AND MICAELA MUÑOZ-CALVO