The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

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Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction
1. Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval “Spain,” and the Mediterranean: An Historiographical Op-Ed
2. The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World: A Comparative Perspective
3. The Princess and the Palace: On Hawwa’ bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family
4. Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey: Seafaring and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio
5. Between the Seas: Apolonio and Alexander
6. The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean: Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner’s Crònica
7. Empire in the Old World: Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479–1516
8. Singing the Scene of History in Fernão Lopes
9. The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes: Historiography and the “Marvelous” in the Sixteenth Century
10. Reading Amadís in Constantinople: Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora
11. Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza
12. Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context: Liberality and Deception in Cervantes’s El amante liberal
13. Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes’s Drama of Captivity
Afterword. Ebbs and Flows: Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean Perspective
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