This book argues that literary and historiographical works written by Iberian Christians between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries promoted contradictory repr

To Live Like a Moor traces the many shifts in Christian perceptions of Islam-associated ways of life which took place across the centuries between early Reconqu

What do clothing, bathing, or dining habits reveal about one's personal religious beliefs? Nothing, of course, unless such outward bodily concerns are perceived

Medieval Iberian literary tradition constitutes a vast corpus of writings with which to study interfaith relations - in particular, Christian attitudes towards

The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine the social and cultural interaction of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Spain during the medieval and early