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Hispania at Home and Abroad

Barrett, Graham

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Simon Barton
Editor

Robert Portass
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Abstract

How do I get to early medieval Hispania, and can you meet me there? If we go looking, we can find it, but not where we might expect. More than a few contemporaries gave this some thought, and all who did so pointed to the same spot – at least at first. Where, then, was Hispania in the early Middle Ages, and why? Our canvas for reconstructing this geography is spread from the eighth century to the eleventh, what we used to think of as stage one of the Reconquista. Through the prism of Hispania, both Christians and Muslims, in all their ways of looking back at what used to be and ahead at what God had foreordained to be, perceived and processed continuity and change, triumph and disaster, and by what can seem divergent paths arrived in the end at the same destination, each to stake out a special claim.

Citation

Barrett, G. (2020). Hispania at Home and Abroad. In S. Barton, & R. Portass (Eds.), Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085). In Honour of Simon Barton (52-119). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423879_004

Online Publication Date Apr 14, 2020
Publication Date Apr 14, 2020
Deposit Date Sep 2, 2024
Publisher Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 52-119
Series Title The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World
Series Number 76
Book Title Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085). In Honour of Simon Barton
Chapter Number 2
ISBN 9789004315136
DOI https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423879_004
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2783064



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