Introduction. Identity in the Middle Ages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iv
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Foreword viii
5. Introduction. Identity in the Middle Ages 1
6. Chapter 1. Identity as a Historiographical Concept 55
7. PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING INDIVIDUAL IDENTITY
8. Chapter 2. Baptismal Names and Identity in the Early Middle Ages 67
9. Chapter 3. Personal Names and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula 113
10. Chapter 4. Gender and Feminine Identity in the Middle Ages 123
11. Chapter 5. Identity, Memory, and Autobiographical Writing in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century French Literature 137
12. Chapter 6. Why Ibn Ḥazm became a Ẓāhirī: Law, Charisma, and the Court 153
13. Chapter 7. Eunuchs in the Emirate of al-Andalus 179
14. PART TWO: SOCIAL IDENTITIES
15. Chapter 8. Identity and Minority Status in Two Legal Traditions 203
16. Chapter 9. Medieval Peasants’ Image of Themselves in Relation to the Seigneurial Regime 213
17. Chapter 10. Chivalric Identity: Arms and Armour, Text and Context 229
18. Chapter 11. The Emergence of a Bourgeois Urban Identity: Late Medieval Catalonia 243
19. Chapter 12. Culture and Marks of Identity among the Social Outcasts and Criminals of Late Medieval Spain 261
20. PART THREE: IDENTITY AND TERRITORY
21. Chapter 13. Identity and the Rural Parish in Medieval Iberia 275
22. Chapter 14. The Breakdown of Vertical Solidarity among the Late Medieval Basque Nobility 293
23. Chapter 15. Identity-Making Discourses in the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica and the Giudicato of Arborea 309
24. Chapter 16. The Crown of Aragon and the Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae in the Fourteenth Century: Comparing Institutional Identities 329
25. PART FOUR: REPRESENTATIVE COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
26. Chapter 17. Political Identity and Patrician Power in the City of Burgos during the Fifteenth Century 349
27. Chapter 18. Fiscal Attitudes and Practices and the Construction of Identity in Late Medieval Cuenca 365
28. Chapter 19. Constructing an Identity: Urban Centres and their Relationship with the Crown of Navarre, 1300–1500 379
29. Chapter 20. Celebration of Identity in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century Florence, Milan, and Venice 407
30. Chapter 21. Local and “State” Identities in Cities of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Northern and Central Italy 433