If the idea of the medieval has been widely deployed in the
colonial and neocolonial West as a marker of cultural backwardness,
the Anglo-American perspective has often regarded Spain as part of
a historically underdeveloped world and as a late-comer to
Protestant/Enlightenment traditions of democracy, tolerance, and
progress. Yet the many cultural dimensions of medieval Iberia make
it pressingly relevant to current critiques of western modernity.
This volume, which brings into dialogue historians and literary
scholars in medieval and modern Iberian cultures, interrogates the
contemporary significance of the distant Spanish past, particularly
in regard to tensions in the relationship between the West and
Islam. Rejecting an illusory space of neutrality, the search for
relevance is envisioned as an ethically and politically necessary
form of inquiry.
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