Enemies in the Plaza
THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES
Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor
Edward Peters, Founding Editor
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Enemies in the Plaza
Urban Spectacle and the End of Spanish Frontier Culture, 1460–1492
Thomas Devaney
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-0-8122-4713-8
For Elizabeth, Ella, Julia, and Eoin
CONTENTS
1. The Anatomy of a Spectacle: Sponsors, Critics, and Onlookers
2. The Meanings of Civic Space
3. Knights, Magi, and Muslims: Miguel Lucas de Iranzo and the People of Jaén
4. A “Chance Act”: Córdoba in 1473
5. Murcia and the Body of Christ Triumphant
ABBREVIATIONS
| AC | Libros de Actas Capitulares |
| ACC | Archivo de la Catedral de Córdoba |
| ACM | Archivo Catedralicio de Murcia |
| AMC | Archivo Municipal de Córdoba |
| AMJ | Archivo Municipal de Jaén |
| AMM | Archivo Municipal de Murcia |
| APC | Archivo Histoórico Provincial de Córdoba |
| BAE | Biblioteca de Autores Españoles |
| BIEG | Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Giennenses |
| CCE | Colección de Crónicas Españolas |
| CHE | Cuadernos de historia de España |
| CR | Cartas reales |
| CSM | Alfonso X el Sabio, Cantigas de Santa María, ed. Walter Mettmann, 3 vols. |
| HID | Historia. Instituciones. Documentos. |
| MCV | Mélanges de la Casa de Velásquez |
| MHJ | Medieval History Journal |
| MMM | Miscelánea medieval murciana |
| Partidas | Las Siete Partidas, ed. Robert I. Burns, trans. Samuel Parsons |
| Scott, 5 vols. | |
| PCG | Primera crónica general de España, ed. Ramón Menéndez Pidal, 2 vols. |
FIGURE 1. Sword of Fernando III. Courtesy of the Excmo. Cabildo de la Catedral de Sevilla.
Introduction
