Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction. Identity in the Middle Ages - Flocel Sabat�e -- 1. Identity as a Historiographical Concept - Jaume Aurell -- Part One: Constructing Individual Identity -- 2. Baptismal Names and Identity in the Early Middle Ages - Igor S. Filippov -- 3. Personal Names and Identity in the Iberian Peninsula - Mois�es Selfa -- 4. Gender and Feminine Identity in the Middle Ages - Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues -- 5. Identity, Memory, and Autobiographical Writing in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century French Literature - Meritxell Sim�o -- 6. Why Ibn Ḥazm became a Ẓāhirī: Law, Charisma, and the Court - Maribel Fierro -- 7. Eunuchs in the Emirate of al-Andalus - Cristina de la Puente -- Part Two: Social Identities -- 8. Identity and Minority Status in Two Legal Traditions - John Tolan -- 9. Medieval Peasants' Image of Themselves in Relation to the Seigneurial Regime - Paul Freedman -- 10. Chivalric Identity: Arms and Armour, Text and Context - Noel Fallows -- 11. The Emergence of a Bourgeois Urban Identity: Late Medieval Catalonia - Flocel Sabat�e -- 12. Culture and Marks of Identity among the Social Outcasts and Criminals of Late Medieval Spain - Ricardo C�ordoba -- Part Three: Identity and Territory -- 13. Identity and the Rural Parish in Medieval Iberia - Raquel Torres Jim�enez -- 14. The Breakdown of Vertical Solidarity among the Late Medieval Basque Nobility - Jos�e Ram�on D�iaz de Durana and Arsenio Dacosta -- 15. Identity-Making Discourses in the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica and the Giudicato of Arborea - Luciano Gallinari -- 16. The Crown of Aragon and the Regnum Sardiniae et Corsicae in the Fourteenth Century - Alessandra Cioppi -- Part Four: Representative Collective Identities -- 17. Political Identity and Patrician Power in the City of Burgos during the Fifteenth Century - Yolanda Guerrero.

18. Fiscal Attitudes and Practices and the Construction of Identity in Late Medieval Cuenca - Jos�e Antonio Jara -- 19. Constructing an Identity: Urban Centres and their Relationship with the Crown of Navarre, 1300-1500 - Elo�isa Ram�irez Vaquero -- 20. Celebration of Identity in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century Florence, Milan, and Venice - Paola Ventrone -- 21. Local and "State" Identities in Cities of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Northern and Central Italy - Giorgio Chittolini.

This exploration of the multiplicity of personal identities, the ways these were expressed, and their evolution into collective identity sheds new light on the Middle Ages.

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