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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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