Anthony P. Esposito

Bio: Anthony P. Esposito is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chiasmus. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 146 citations.

History and the Historians of Medieval Spain

Abstract: Abbreviations Philip II and Hermenegild III Toledo and its legacy King Wamba and XII Toledo The chronicle of Alfonso III The reign of Ordono II: from Oviedo to Leon Leon and Castile in the eleventh century The reconquest of Toledo 1085 1147 Toledo and the political fragmentation of the peninsula Toledo after 1182 The history of Spain according to De rebus Hispaniae D. Rodrigo and D. Lucas The later thirteenth century Yet again the coronation of 1135 Toledo after 1295 Alvarus Pelagius his Speculum regum The chronicle of Alfonso XI and its author Epilogue Bibliography Index.

The New Cambridge Medieval History

Abstract: Introduction Jonathan Riley-Smith and David Luscombe 1. The rural economy and demographic growth Robert Fossier 2. Towns and the growth of trade Derek Keene 3. Government and community, 1024-1204 Susan Reynolds 4. The development of law Peter Landau 5. Knightly society Jean Flori 6. War, peace and the Christian order, 1024-1204 Ernst-Dieter Hehl 7. The structure of the church, 1024-1073 H. E. J. Cowdrey 8. Reform and the church, 1073-1122 I. S. Robinson 9. Religious communities, 1024-1215 Giles Constable 10. The institutions of the church, 1073-1216 I. S. Robinson 11. Thought and learning D. E. Luscombe 12. Religion and laity (including popular devotions and heresy) Bernard Hamilton 13. The crusades, 1095-1198 Jonathan Riley-Smith 14. The eastern churches Jean Richard 15. Muslim Spain and Portugal: al-Andalus and its neighbours, 1025-1198 Hugh Kennedy 16. The Jews in Europe and the Mediterranean basin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries Robert Chazan 17. Literature (Latin and vernacular) Jan Ziolkowski 18. Romanesque and gothic: architecture and the arts Patrick Kidson List of primary sources Bibliography of secondary sources arranged by chapter Index of manuscripts.

Merovingian Gaul and the Frankish conquests

Abstract: From the later third century, Germans whom the literary sources called Franks had joined with other barbarians to challenge Roman rule in Gaul. This chapter acknowledges the importance of the Bishop Gregory's extensive writings in the discussions of the formation of Frankish kingdoms, the working of kingship, the roles of aristocrats and bishops, and the limits of Merovingian rule. The kingdom in north-eastern Gaul was sometimes known simply as 'Francia'. It also came to be known as Austria or Austrasia. Although by the fifth century Orthodox Christianity provided a dominant world-view among the Roman population in Gaul, as the Franks expanded into Gaul they nevertheless retained their pagan cults, and even into the sixth century they continued to worship at pagan shrines, especially in northern Gaul. In the kingdom of Austrasia various combinations of Frankish aristocrats, Roman aristocrats and bishops competed for influence at the royal court.

The Mediterranean economy

Abstract: The biggest player in the sixth- and seventh-century Mediterranean economy was obviously the Byzantine Empire, which alone maintained the means and the motive routinely to encourage the bulk transportation of staple items between regions. Part of the agricultural surplus from the wealthiest of all the lands around the Mediterranean, Egypt, had long been diverted to assure supplies of grain for the imperial capital at Constantinople. The Mediterranean afforded wider opportunities for coastal producers to market their surplus, whether in dealings with the state or independently of it. The annona system may have tied shippers into the regular transport of Egyptian grain to the imperial capital, but not so tightly as to preclude them from the simultaneous pursuit of private profit. At privileged western sites like Rome and Marseilles, or Carthage and Naples, the archaeological evidence suggests that the late antique exchange-network persisted in an etiolated form through to the close of the seventh century.

Beyond convivencia: critical reflections on the historiography of interfaith relations in Christian Spain

Abstract: While Americo Castro’s convivencia remains an influential concept in medieval Iberian studies, its sway over the field has been lessening in recent years Despite scholars’ best efforts to rethink and redefine the concept, it has resisted all attempts to transform it into a workable analytical tool The article explores the malaise affecting convivencia, and suggests that the idea has become more of an impediment than a help to medieval Iberian studies It argues that convivencia retains some of its former influence because scholars insist on understanding it as a distinctly Ibero‐Islamic phenomenon However, this article suggests that the evidence for Islamic influence on interfaith coexistence in Christian Spain is scarce Instead of continuing to embrace the nationalist myth of Spain’s unique status in medieval Europe, scholars need to acknowledge the basic similarities in the Christian treatment of religious minorities north and south of the Pyrenees The article also explores other aspects of convive

The heroides in alfonso x's general estoria: translation, adaptation, use, and interpretation of a classical work in a thirteenth-century iberian history of the world

Abstract: OF DISSERTATION J. Javier Puerto Benito