Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-xiv

Introduction. Identity in the Middle Ages

pp 1-54

Chapter 1 - Identity as a Historiographical Concept

pp 55-64

Part One - Constructing Individual Identity

pp 65-66

Chapter 2 - Baptismal Names and Identity in the Early Middle Ages

pp 67-112

Chapter 3 - Personal Names And Identity In The Iberian Peninsula

pp 113-122

Chapter 4 - Gender And Feminine Identity In The Middle Ages

pp 123-136

Chapter 5 - Identity, Memory, and Autobiographical Writing in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century French Literature

pp 137-152

Chapter 6 - Why Ibn Ḥazm became a Ẓāhirī: Law, Charisma, and the Court

pp 153-178

Chapter 7 - Eunuchs in the Emirate of al-Andalus

pp 179-200

Part Two - Social Identities

pp 201-202

Chapter 8 - Identity and Minority Status in Two Legal Traditions

pp 203-212

Chapter 9 - Medieval Peasants’ Image of Themselves in Relation to the Seigneurial Regime

pp 213-228

Chapter 10 - Chivalric Identity: Arms and Armour, Text and Context

pp 229-242

Chapter 11 - The Emergence of a Bourgeois Urban Identity: Late Medieval Catalonia

pp 243-260

Chapter 12 - Culture and Marks of Identity among the Social Outcasts and Criminals of Late Medieval Spain

pp 261-272

Part Three - Identity And Territory

pp 273-274

Chapter 13 - Identity and the Rural Parish in Medieval Iberia

pp 275-292

Chapter 14 - The Breakdown of Vertical Solidarity among the Late Medieval Basque Nobility

pp 293-308

Chapter 15 - Identity-Making Discourses in the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica and the Giudicato of Arborea

pp 309-328

Chapter 16 - The Crown of Aragon and the Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae in the Fourteenth Century: Comparing Institutional Identities

pp 329-346

Part Four - Representative Collective Identities

pp 347-348

Chapter 17 - Political Identity and Patrician Power in the City of Burgos during the Fifteenth Century

pp 349-364

Chapter 18 - Fiscal Attitudes and Practices and the Construction of Identity in Late Medieval Cuenca

pp 365-378

Chapter 19 - Constructing an Identity: Urban Centres and their Relationship with the Crown of Navarre, 1300–1500

pp 379-406

Chapter 20 - Celebration of Identity in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century Florence, Milan, and Venice

pp 407-432

Chapter 21 - Local and “State” Identities in Cities of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Northern and Central Italy

pp 433-451