“Queer Iberia proves to be a well-chosen and intelligently-edited anthology. The essays discuss genuinely interesting topics and historical figures.” — Lambda Book Report
“[A] wide-ranging inquiry into the multiform ways that medieval Iberia occupied an already queer space in medieval Europe.” — Karma Lochrie , Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
“[An] excellent collection of uniformly well-researched and well-written essays.” — Judy B. McInnis , Hispania 84
“[T]his is a first-rate and provocative collection, a must-read—even if to disagree with—not only for Hispanists, but for everyone else as well.” — Teofilo F. Ruiz , Renaissance Quarterly
“Blackmore and Hutcheson have assembled an admirable set of essays that, in general, are well written, critically current, and theoretically informed; this exciting and provocative collection will stand as a model for the kind of interdisciplinary and collaborative research that is invaluable to Iberomedievalists . . . .The celebration of queerness implicit in this project incites and indeed compels us to rethink the very idea of boundaries, to de-marginalize queerness and ‘make its presence inevitable rather than exceptional in our reading of historical process, literary creation, the deployment of discourse, and the formation of identities.’” — Dayle Seidenspinner-Núñez , La Corónica
“Rarely does an academic tome of well over four hundred pages induce in its readers a page-turning gluttony, yet such is the case with this intellectual feast of a book that is as sumptuous as a carnival banquet consumed by the pre-Lenten revelers in the Book of Good Love . . . . This beautifully textured, provocative, endlessly insightful study will prove a landmark contribution to Iberian, gender, and queer studies, and early modern historiography, and hopefully pave the way for new inquiries into these intersecting fields.” — Leora Lev, Journal of the History of Sexuality
"Queer Iberia is of supreme importance because it focuses on a time period that is fundamental to the construction of nation, empire, and colony, and yet which is habitually under-represented in some scholars' and many students' thinking. . . . The book is indispensable to scholars working on issues related to the way that texts written in Spanish articulate difference, particularly in terms of gender. . . . It is a pleasure to see the depth of scholarship and synthetic thinking that went into Queer Iberia; it is an original contribution to research in the field that also serves as an inspiration: these essays prove that it is possible to be an adventurous thinker and a punctilious scholar, to have a smile on the face and a gleam in the eye-not of irritation, but of wit-as the dust of the archive rises and settles all around." — Mary S. Gossy , Hispanic Review
"This superbly produced book is more an invigorating breath of fresh air than a new broom to take to Medieval and Renaissance Hispanic studies. Yet, in its overall coherence and in its sheer bulk, in the liveliness, defiance and ebullience of some of its readings, it gives the dimension of queerness as defined by the editors a collective legitimacy. . . . Queer Iberia is bound to change in a significant way even the most stubbornly straight approaches to early texts." — Robert Archer, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
“An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is—above all—crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies.” — Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Getting Medieval
“In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to our own than we might have suspected.” — Mary Gaylord, Harvard University