Simon Barton, D.Phil. York (1990), became Professor of History at the University of Central Florida in 2017, having previously worked at the University of Exeter from 1993 to 2017. He was one of the most eminent historians of medieval Spain of his generation. He died in December 2017.Robert Portass, D.Phil. Oxon (2011), is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Lincoln. He has published extensively on medieval Spanish society, economy and politics, including The Village World of Early Medieval Northern Spain: Local Community and the Land Market (2017).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsContributorsSimon Barton† (1962–2017)Beyond the Reconquista: an Introductory EssayRobert PortassPart 1: Hispania Old and New1The Life and Death of an Historiographical Folly: The Early Medieval Depopulation and Repopulation of the Duero BasinJulio Escalona & Iñaki Martín Viso2Hispania at Home and AbroadGraham BarrettPart 2: Hispania Real and Imagined3A Likely Story: Purpose in Narratives from Charters of the Early Medieval PyreneesJonathan Jarrett4Counts in Ninth- and Tenth-Century IberiaWendy Davies5The Value of Wealth: Coins and Coinage in Iberian Early Medieval DocumentsEduardo Manzano Moreno & Alberto CantoPart 3: Writing, Remembering, Representing6Record, Chronicle and Oblivion: Remembering and Forgetting Elite Women in Medieval IberiaJeffrey Bowman7‘He lashed his mawlā with a whip, and shaved his head’: Masculinity and Hierarchy in Early Andalusī Chronicles’Nicola Clarke8Islam Concealed and Revealed: The Chronicle of 754 and Beatus of Liébana’s Commentary on the ApocalypseLucy K. PickIndex