This book places identity at the centre of a project to better understand medieval society. By exploring the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways in which these were expressed within particular social structures (such as feudalism), and their evolution into formal expressions of collective identity (municipalities, guilds, nations, and so on) we can shed new light on the Middle Ages. A specific legacy of such developments was that by the end of the Middle Ages, a sense of national identity, supported by the late medieval socio-economic structure, backed in law and by theological, philosophical, and political thought, defined society. What is more, social structures coalesced across diverse elements, including language, group solidarities, and a set of assumed values.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction. Identity in the Middle Ages — Flocel Sabaté
- 1. Identity as a Historiographical Concept — Jaume Aurell
- Part One: Constructing Individual Identity
- 2. Baptismal Names and Identity in the Early Middle Ages — Igor S. Filippov
- 3. Personal Names and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula — Moisés Selfa
- 4. Gender and Feminine Identity in the Middle Ages — Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues
- 5. Identity, Memory, and Autobiographical Writing in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century French Literature — Meritxell Simó
- 6. Why Ibn Ḥazm became a Ẓāhirī: Law, Charisma, and the Court — Maribel Fierro
- 7. Eunuchs in the Emirate of al-Andalus — Cristina de la Puente
- Part Two: Social Identities
- 8. Identity and Minority Status in Two Legal Traditions — John Tolan
- 9. Medieval Peasants’ Image of Themselves in Relation to the Seigneurial Regime — Paul Freedman
- 10. Chivalric Identity: Arms and Armour, Text and Context — Noel Fallows
- 11. The Emergence of a Bourgeois Urban Identity: Late Medieval Catalonia — Flocel Sabaté
- 12. Culture and Marks of Identity among the Social Outcasts and Criminals of Late Medieval Spain — Ricardo Córdoba
- Part Three: Identity and Territory
- 13. Identity and the Rural Parish in Medieval Iberia — Raquel Torres Jiménez
- 14. The Breakdown of Vertical Solidarity among the Late Medieval Basque Nobility — José Ramón Díaz de Durana and Arsenio Dacosta
- 15. Identity-Making Discourses in the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica and the Giudicato of Arborea — Luciano Gallinari
- 16. The Crown of Aragon and the Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae in the Fourteenth Century — Alessandra Cioppi
- Part Four: Representative Collective Identities
- 17. Political Identity and Patrician Power in the City of Burgos during the Fifteenth Century — Yolanda Guerrero
- 18. Fiscal Attitudes and Practices and the Construction of Identity in Late Medieval Cuenca — José Antonio Jara
- 19. Constructing an Identity: Urban Centres and their Relationship with the Crown of Navarre, 1300–1500 — Eloísa Ramírez Vaquero
- 20. Celebration of Identity in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century Florence, Milan, and Venice — Paola Ventrone
- 21. Local and “State” Identities in Cities of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Northern and Central Italy — Giorgio Chittolini
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