Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia

Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia

Arts and Ambivalence

This volume challenges popular assumptions and academic pieties​ regarding religion and identity on the Iberian​ Peninsula during the Middle​ Ages. Its studies of individual works of art and architecture uncoil complex​ histories from this religiously plural peninsula, intertwining social, cultural,​ and political identities across seven centuries. Chronicling relationships​ between religious groups that were neither idyllic nor irreconcilable, these​ works of art reveal instead expressions of religious separateness balanced​ within ambivalent and dynamic shared visual identities.
  • COVER
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. An Agonistic History of Art
  • Chapter 2. Muslims, Christians, and the Great Mosque of Cordoba
  • Chapter 3. Babylon in Flames
  • Chapter 4. Mudéjar and Romanesque: Romanesque and Islam
  • Chapter 5. Conversion and Translation
  • Chapter 6. The Virgin in Murcia
  • Chapter 7. Anxiety and Entanglement
  • Postscript. An Ambivalent Iberia
  • Bibliography
  • Index