Michelle M. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is the author of Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature.
Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Power, Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna.

CONTENTS
Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction
Michelle M. Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez
Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval "Spain," and the Mediterranean: An Historiographical Op-Ed
Brian A. Catlos
The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World: A Comparative Perspective
Gerard Wiegers
The Princess and the Palace: On Hawwa' bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family
Manuela Marin
Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey: Seafaring and the
Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio
Nicholas M. Parmley
Between the Seas: Apolonio and Alexander
Simone Pinet
The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean: Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner's Cronica
Vicente Lledó-Guillem
Empire in the Old World: Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479-1516
Andrew W. Devereux
Singing the Scene of History in Fernao Lopes
Josiah Blackmore
The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes: Historiography and the "Marvelous"
in the Sixteenth Century
Eleazar Gutwirt
Reading Amadis in Constantinople: Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of
Diaspora
David A. Wacks
Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza
Ryan D. Giles
Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context: Liberality and Deception in
Cervantes's El amante liberal
Luis F. Aviles
Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes's
Drama of Captivity
Barbara Fuchs
Afterword. Ebbs and Flows: Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean
Perspective
Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini

The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.