The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.

Michelle M. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, is the author of Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature.

Nuria Silleras-Fernandez, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the author of Power, Piety and Patronage in Late Medieval Queenship: Maria de Luna.