Sword and the Cross: Castile-León in the Era of Fernando III

Edward L. Holt, Ph.D. (2018), Saint Louis University, is Assistant Professor of History at Grambling State University and a 2019/20 fellow with the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. He publishes on the themes of medieval Iberian leadership, liturgy, and crusading.Teresa Witcombe, Ph.D. (2019), University of Exeter, is a Leverhulme Visiting Research Fellow at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the CSIC-CCHS Madrid. She works on the intellectual, religious and cultural history of Castile in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsFernando III and His WorldEdward L. Holt and Teresa Witcombe1 Empire and Crusade under Fernando IIICarlos de Ayala Martínez2 The Man “Who Broke and Destroyed All of His Enemies”: The Military Action of Fernando IIIFrancisco García Fitz3 Fernando III and Muḥammad I of Granada: A Time of Collaboration between Two “Incompatible Worlds”Bárbara Boloix-Gallardo4 In exercitu loco eius pontificalia exercet: Warrior Clerics in the Era of Fernando IIIKyle C. Lincoln5 Dilecta consanguinea mea: Fernando III’s Donation to a Nun of FontevraudMartín Alvira6 Laudes regiae: Liturgy and Royal Power in Thirteenth-century Castile-LeónEdward L. Holt7 “At the Command of the Infantas”: Royal Women at Las Huelgas in the Thirteenth CenturyJanna Bianchini8 Family and Friends: Women at the Court of Fernando IIIMiriam Shadis9 The Peculiarities of Frontier Religious Authority in the Age of Fernando IIIFrancisco García-Serrano10 Literary Expressions of Pastoral Reform during the Reign of Fernando IIICristina CatalinaIndex