Cross, crescent and conversion : : studies on medieval Spain and christendom in memory of Richard Fletcher / / edited by Simon Barton and Peter Linehan.

• Superior document: The medieval Mediterranean, v. 73
• TeilnehmendeR: Fletcher, R. A.; Barton, Simon, 1962-; Linehan, Peter.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 73.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume is intended as a commemoration of the career of Richard Fletcher and his remarkable contribution to our understanding of the medieval world. The seventeen papers included here, written by some of the leading scholars of this period, reflect the three main areas of Fletcher’s scholarly endeavours: Church and society in medieval Spain; Christian-Muslim relations, both in the Iberian peninsula and further afield; and the history of the post-Roman world, with particular reference to the conversion of Europe. Contributors are James Campbell, Roger Collins, Judith McClure, Edward James, Roger Wright, Ann Christys, Bernard F. Reilly, Christopher Tyerman, Simon Barton, John Williams, James D'Emilio, Emma Falque, Peter Linehan, Peter Biller, Ian Michael, Esther Pascua, John Edwards, and Ian Wood.

Table of Contents

Richard Fletcher as an historian / James Campbell -- Rome, Canterbury and Wearmouth-Jarrow : three viewpoints on Augustine's mission / Roger Collins and Judith McClure -- Gregory of Tours, the Visigoths and Spain / Edward James -- Place names in early medieval documents : the case of Cabra / Roger Wright -- Picnic at Madinat al-Zahra / Ann Christys -- The rediscovery of Count Pedro Ansurez / Bernard F. Reilly -- Principes et populus : civil society and the first crusade / Christopher Tyerman -- Islam and the West : a view from twelfth-century Leon / Simon Barton -- The tomb of St. James : the view from the other side / John Williams -- The cathedral chapter of lugo in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries : reform and retrenchment / James D'Emilio -- Fuentes Isidorianas en de altera uita de Lucas de Tuy / Emma Falque -- Columpna Firmissima : D. Gil Torres, the cardinal of Zamora / Peter Linehan -- The abundance and scarcity of food in the inquisition records of Languedoc / Peter Biller -- From the Belles of St Clement's to the book of good love : the late survival of mozarabic culture in Toledo / Ian Michael -- Round and about water : Christians and Muslims in the Ebro Valley in the fourteenth century / Esther Pascua -- New light on the converso debate : the Jewish Christianity of Alfonso de Cartagena and Juan de Torquemada / John Edwards -- The fall of the Roman Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ian Wood.