Cross, Crescent and Conversion : Studies on Medieval Spain and Christendom in Memory of Richard Fletcher

This volume is intended as a commemoration of the career of Richard Fletcher and his remarkable contribution to our understanding of the medieval world. The seventeen papers included here, written by some of the leading scholars of this period, reflect the three main areas of Fletcher’s scholarly endeavours: Church and society in medieval Spain; Christian-Muslim relations, both in the Iberian peninsula and further afield; and the history of the post-Roman world, with particular reference to the conversion of Europe.
Contributors are James Campbell, Roger Collins, Judith McClure, Edward James, Roger Wright, Ann Christys, Bernard F. Reilly, Christopher Tyerman, Simon Barton, John Williams, James D'Emilio, Emma Falque, Peter Linehan, Peter Biller, Ian Michael, Esther Pascua, John Edwards, and Ian Wood.

Simon Barton is Professor of Spanish History at the University of Exeter. He has published extensively on the history of medieval Spain, including The Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century León and Castile (Cambridge UP, 1997) and (with Richard Fletcher) The World of El Cid (Manchester UP 2000). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Peter Linehan is Fellow and Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, and the author of numerous works on various aspects of the history of medieval Spain. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society and Corresponding Member of the Real Academia de la Historia (Madrid).