Contents: Flocel Sabaté/Luis Adão da Fonseca: The Spain that never was: The Iberian peninsula from its peripheries – Luis A. García Moreno: La conquista musulmana del noreste hispano. Supuestos y consecuencias – Michel Zimmermann : Écriture diplomatique et mémoire documentaire aux origines de l’histoire catalane – Josep Moran/Joan Anton Rabella: The process of scripturising Catalan – Philip D. Rasico: Cries of Abuse and Injustice in Early Catalan: Notes on the Language of the
Rancures, Clams
and
Querimònies
(11th and 12th Centuries) – José Augusto de Sotomayor-Pizarro: Political Origins of Portugal. From Country to Kingdom (1096-1143/1157) – Lúcia Rosas: Architecture and Identity – Tomàs de Montagut:
Cuius Generalis
: The erudite notion of Justice in the Crown of Aragon and Catalonia (12th-18th Centuries) – Stephano Maria Cingolani: The myth of the origins and royal power in the late medieval Crown of Aragon – Paula Pinto Costa/Luís Adão da Fonseca: Historiography and Portuguese identity: How in Medieval Portugal the kingdom is seen through the eyes of the Iberian Peninsula – Maria Cristina Pimenta: The perception of the Iberian Peninsula from the periphery: Portugal in the fifteenth century – Andrea Knox: Nuns on the Periphery? Irish Dominican Nuns and assimilation in Lisbon – Vicent Josep Escartí: The word
Espanya
(«Spain») in 15th and 16th Century Catalan literature – Antoni Simon: The concept of Spain in Catalan and Hispanic political thought from the era of reason of state – Robert von Friedeburg: How «new» is the «New Monarchy»? Clashes between princes and nobility in Europe’s Iron Century – Pedro Cardim:
Portugal unido, y separado
. Propaganda and the discourse of identity between the Habsburgs and the Braganza – Eulàlia Miralles: National history, own language and otherness: Catalonia in the 16th-18th Centuries – Giovanni C. Cattini/David Cao: Uses of the Medieval Past in the Political Culture of 19th Century Catalonia – Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira: Historical Reference in the 19th Century Portuguese Discourse – Òscar Costa: Re-imagining the State: Pan-Iberianism and Political Interventionism in the Context of Catalan Nationalism – Dick E.H. de Boer: Iberian identities - some final remarks.