This volume of essays contains contributions from a very wide range of British, American and Spanish scholars. Its primary concern is the relationships between the various ethnic, cultural, regional and religious communities that co-existed in the Iberian peninsula in the later Middle Ages. Conflicts and mutual interactions between them are here explored in a range of both historical and literary studies, to expose something of the rich diversity of the cultural life of later medieval Spain.

SIMON BARTON Department of Spanish, University of Exeter R. I. BURNS Loyola University, California (retired) JOSÉ ENRIQUE LÓPEZ DE COCA Department of Medieval History, University of Malaga ANA ECHEVARRIA Universidad Nacional de Educatión a Distancia, Madrid JOHN EDWARDS Modern Language Facility, University of Oxford RICHARD HITCHCOCK Department of Spanish, University of Exeter MANUEL GONZÁLEZ JIMÉNEZ Department of Medieval History, University of Malaga IAN MACPHERSON Honorary Research Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London N.H. ROUND Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Sheffield TEÓFILO F. RUIZ School of History, University of California, Los Angeles DOROTHY SEVERIN Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Liverpool BRIAN TATE Department of Spanish, University of Nottingham (retired)