Authority and Spectacle in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Yuen-Gen Liang is Associate Professor of History at National Taiwan University, Taipei. His previous publications include Family and Empire: The Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish Realm (2011). Jarbel Rodriguez is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. His previous publications include Captives and their Saviors in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (2009).

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Notes on Contributors

Authority and Spectacle: Teofilo F. Ruiz and the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Europe Yuen-Gen Liang and Jarbel Rodriguez

Part I – Authority in Borders and Conquests








A Border Policy? Louis IX and the Spanish Connection
William C. Jordan




The King, the Coin, and the Word: Imagining and Enacting Castilian Frontiers in the Late Medieval Iberia
Claire Gilbert




An End to Conquests: Expansion and its Limits in the Iberian World, Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries

Xavier Gil



‘All Things to All Men’: Political Messianism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Bryan Givens

Part II – Authority in Texts, Taxes, and Penury




Transmitting Urgency in the Romance: An Example of Strategic Codeswitching in the Crown of Aragon’s Thirteenth-Century Royal Chancery
Antonio Zaldivar




The Issues of Fiscal Systems in Castilian Towns from 1369 to 1474
Denis Menjot




Authority and Poverty in Late-Medieval Spain
Francisco Garcia-Serrano

Part III – Spectacles of Purity in the Body and in the Realm




The Saint at the Gate: Giving Relics a ‘Royal Entry’ in Eleventh to Twelfth-Century France
Kate Craig




Medieval Cuisines and the Seasons of the Year
Paul Freedman




Medieval Media and Minorities: Jews and Muslims in the Cantigas de Santa María
David Nirenberg

Part IV – Spectacles of Empire and Identity




Poor Colors, Rich Colors: Spanish Clothing in the Early Sixteenth Century
Hilario Casado Alonso




Mobilizing Sanctity: Pius II and the Head of Andrew in Rome
Maya Maskarinec




Nuestros Españoles: The First Spaniards and the first Hapsburg Chronicles
Katherine van Liere




Muy grandes hombres de acaballo’: Spanish Horsemanship a la jineta and Bernardo Vargas Machuca’s New Science



Kathryn Renton

Epilogue – The Workings of Power: Authority and Festivals in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Teofilo F. Ruiz

Bibliography of Teofilo F. Ruiz publications