CONTENTS Iberia and the Mediterranean: An Introduction Michelle M. Hamilton and Nuria Silleras-Fernandez Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations, Medieval "Spain," and the Mediterranean: An Historiographical Op-Ed Brian A. Catlos The Role of Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Iberia in the Transmission of Knowledge about Islam to the Western World: A Comparative Perspective Gerard Wiegers The Princess and the Palace: On Hawwa' bint Tashufin and Other Women from the Almoravid Royal Family Manuela Marin Medieval Mediterranean Travel as an Intellectual Journey: Seafaring and the Pursuit of Knowledge in the Libro de Apolonio Nicholas M. Parmley Between the Seas: Apolonio and Alexander Simone Pinet The Catalan Standard Language in the Mediterranean: Greece versus Sardinia in Muntaner's Cronica Vicente Lledó-Guillem Empire in the Old World: Ferdinand the Catholic and His Aspiration to Universal Empire, 1479-1516 Andrew W. Devereux Singing the Scene of History in Fernao Lopes Josiah Blackmore The Most marueilous historie of the Iewes : Historiography and the "Marvelous" in the Sixteenth Century Eleazar Gutwirt Reading Amadis in Constantinople: Imperial Spanish Fiction in the Key of Diaspora David A. Wacks Apocalyptic Sealing in the Lozana Andaluza Ryan D. Giles Expanding the Self in a Mediterranean Context: Liberality and Deception in Cervantes's El amante liberal Luis F. Aviles Intimate Strangers: Humor and the Representation of Difference in Cervantes's Drama of Captivity Barbara Fuchs Afterword.

Ebbs and Flows: Looking at Spain from a Mediterranean Perspective Luis Martín-Estudillo and Nicholas Spadaccini.