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).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsAuthority and Spectacle: Teofilo F. Ruiz and the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Europe Yuen-Gen Liang and Jarbel RodriguezPart I – Authority in Borders and Conquests A Border Policy? Louis IX and the Spanish ConnectionWilliam C. Jordan The King, the Coin, and the Word: Imagining and Enacting Castilian Frontiers in the Late Medieval IberiaClaire Gilbert An End to Conquests: Expansion and its Limits in the Iberian World, Fifteenth to the Early Seventeenth CenturiesXavier Gil ‘All Things to All Men’: Political Messianism in Late Medieval and Early Modern SpainBryan GivensPart 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 ChanceryAntonio Zaldivar The Issues of Fiscal Systems in Castilian Towns from 1369 to 1474Denis Menjot Authority and Poverty in Late-Medieval SpainFrancisco Garcia-SerranoPart 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 FranceKate 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 NirenbergPart IV – Spectacles of Empire and Identity Poor Colors, Rich Colors: Spanish Clothing in the Early Sixteenth CenturyHilario Casado Alonso Mobilizing Sanctity: Pius II and the Head of Andrew in RomeMaya Maskarinec Nuestros Españoles: The First Spaniards and the first Hapsburg ChroniclesKatherine van Liere Muy grandes hombres de acaballo’: Spanish Horsemanship a la jineta and Bernardo Vargas Machuca’s New Science Kathryn RentonEpilogue – The Workings of Power: Authority and Festivals in Medieval and Early Modern EuropeTeofilo F. RuizBibliography of Teofilo F. Ruiz publications

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