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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 From Maidenhood to the Marriage State Domesticating Women -- 1. Marriage and Sexuality in Al-Andalus -- 2. Intimate Violence: Shrew Taming as Wedding Ritual in the Conde Lucanor -- 3. The Consells-Consejos on Marriage and Their Broader Sentimental Context -- Part 2 Playing the Game of Wife and Mother -- 4. Pawn or Player?: Violant of Bar and the Game of Matrimonial Politics in the Crown of Aragon (1380-1396)

Featuring five introductory essays and a chronology of key events, this three-volume encyclopedia covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of Columbus

Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E. combines archaeological and literary sources to reconstruct the history of late antique Iberian aristocracies, facilitating the study of a social class that has proved elusive when approached through the lens of a single type of evidence

Algunos pasajes de la literatura grecolatina sitúan en la Península Ibérica a libiofenicios, lo que ha sido interpretado tradicionalmente como una evidencia de la instalación de colonos norteafricanos por parte de Cartago. No obstante, una lectura crítica de estos textos permite establecer diferencias entre estos testimonios y distinguir dos grupos: en el primero los libiofenicios forman parte de tropas norteafricanas trasladadas a Iberia en el contexto de la segunda Guerra Púnica, y en el segundo grupo, sin un contexto histórico preciso, habitan parte de la costa mediterránea junto con otros pueblos. Las incongruencias de estos últimos datos hacen que interpretemos la presencia de libiofenicios en Iberia únicamente como parte de la estrategia de los Barca en la política de deportaciones y traslado de tropas. ; Libyphoenician people have been situated in Iberian Peninsula by some Greek and Latin writers; it has been traditionally explained as an evidence of the Carthaginian colonisation. However, through a critical analysis, we can establish two different groups oftexts: libyphoenician people as northafrican military forces moved into Iberia during the Second PunicWar (Polibius, Livy), and a second group, without a particular historical context, in which we find Libyphoenician people living in theMediterranean coast nearto other communities (Pseudoescimnus, Avienus). The contradictions of these last testimonies make us conclude that Libyphoenician people can only be understood as part of Hannibal's policy of deportation.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) ERC Grant Agreement number 323316, CORPI project 'Conversion, Overlapping Religiosities, Polemics, Interaction. Early Modern Iberia and Beyond'. ; Peer reviewed

In the northeastern Algarve, Portugal, semi-dispersed settlements and property fragmentation evidently had coexisted with a predominantly nuclear family household pattern since the midnineteenth century, suggesting that a small holding pattern of land tenure need not always lead to a stem-family household as is so often true in other areas of Iberia. Other comparisons, drawn between the Algarve and the adjacent region of Alentejo, suggest that regional variation is strong on all measures and poses an interesting challenge to social scientific explanation.

Medieval Iberia was rich in sociolinguistic and cultural diversity. This volume explores the culture, history, literature and language of the Peninsula in an attempt to understand its cultural-political complexity and its legacy. Principal themes include the representation of minority groups in the community; the challenge of social contact that could bring mutual absorption of influence or conflict; the effects of linguistic interaction and development; and the dissemination of cultural and scientific knowledge within and beyond the borders of the Peninsula. Modern interpretations of Medieval Iberia are neither static nor definitive in this kaleidoscopic field of investigation. EDITORS: Ivy A. Corfis and Ray Harris-Northall are Professors of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. OTHER CONTRIBUTORS: Pablo Ancos, William J. Courtney, Thomas D. Cravens, Frank Domínguez, Noel Fallows, Charles F. Fraker, E. Michael Gerli, Kristin Neumayer, Stanley G. Payne, Joel Rini, Joseph T. Snow, Michael Solomon

This volume brings together a rich interdisciplinary selection of some of the best and most up-to-date research in the field of Sephardic Studies by scholars from all over the world. Covering both pre-Expulsion Iberia and the far flung Sephardi diaspora, the essays deal with social and intellectual history, literature, folklore, linguistics, musicology and art history. The volume concludes with an important discussion on education and the future of Sephardic Studies as a field. Most of the contributions in this volume are in English, and a few in French and Spanish