Professor Simon Barton
Publications
Books
A History of Spain. Second Edition., Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
with P Linehan, Cross, Crescent and Conversion: studies on medieval Spain and Christendom in memory of Richard Fletcher, Leiden: Brill Academic Press, 2007.
A History of Spain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
with RA Fletcher, The world of El Cid, Manchester Univ Pr, 2000.
The aristocracy in twelfth-century León and Castile, Cambridge Univ Pr, 1997.
Chapters
In Search of the Eternal Nation: Ramón Menéndez Pidal and the History of Spain, in Conde JC (eds) Ramón Menéndez Pidal after Forty Years: A Reassessment, Queen Mary, University of London, 2010, 95-110
Alfonso IX e a nobreza do reino de León, in Alfonso IX e a súa época. Pro utilitate regni mei, A Coruña: Ayuntamiento de A Coruña, 2008, 71-87
Islam and the West: a view from Twelfth-Century Leon, in Barton S,Linehan P (eds) Cross, Crescent and Conversion: Studies on Medieval Spain and Christendom in Memory of Richard Fletcher, Brill Academic Press, 2007, 153-174
From Mercenary to Crusader: the career of Álvar Pérez de Castro (d. 1239) reconsidered., in Harris J,Martin T (eds) Church, State, Vellum and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams, Brill Academic Press, 2005, 111-129
Spain in the Eleventh Century, in Riley-Smith J,Luscombe D (eds) The New Cambridge Medieval History Volume IV, c.1024 - c.1198, Cambridge University Press, 2004, 154-190
Traitors to the Faith? Christian Mercenaries in al-Andalus and the Maghreb, c.1100-1300., in Collins R,Goodman A (eds) Medieval Spain: Culture, Conflict and Coexistence. Studies in Honour of Angus MacKay, Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, 23-45
Reinventing the Hero: The Poetic Portrayal of Rodrigo Díaz, the Cid, in its Political Context, in Pattison DG (eds) Textos épicos castellanos: problemas de edición y crítica, London: Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary and Westfield College, 2000, 65-78
Patrons, Pilgrims and the Cult of Saints in the Medieval Kingdom of León, in Stopford J (eds) Pilgrimage Explored, York: York Medieval Press/The Boydell Press, 1999, 57-77
The roots of the National Question in Spain, in Teich M,Porter R (eds) The National Question in Europe in historical context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 106-127
Articles
El Cid, Cluny and the Medieval Spanish Reconquista, English Historical Review, vol. 126, 2011, 517-543
Marriage across frontiers: sexual mixing, power and identity in Medieval Iberia, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, vol. 3, 2011, 1-25
Las mujeres nobles y el poder en los reinos de Leon y Castilla en el siglo XII: un estudio preliminar, Studia Historica: Historia Medieval, vol. 29, 2011, 51-71
The Discovery of Aristocracy in Twelfth-Century Spain: Portraits of the Secular elite in the Poem of Almería, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, vol. 83, no. 6, 2006
A Forgotten Crusade: Alfonso VII of León-Castile and the Campaign for Jaén (1148), Historical Research, vol. 73, 2000, 312-320
From Tyrants to Soldiers of Christ: the nobility of twelfth-century León-Castile and the struggle against Islam, Nottingham Medieval Studies, vol. 44, 2000, 28-48
The Count, the Bishop and the Abbot: Armengol VI of Urgel and the Abbey of Valladolid, The English Historical Review, vol. 111, 1996, 85-103
Comes et maiordomus imperatoris: Más apuntes sobre la vida del conde Ponce Giraldo de Cabrera, Anales de la Real Academia de Heráldica y Genealogía Matritense, vol. 3, 1996, 9-20
Two Catalan magnates in the courts of the kings of León-Castile: The careers of Ponce de Cabrera and Ponce de Minerva re-examined, Journal of Medieval History, vol. 18, 1992, 233-266
Sobre el conde Rodrigo Pérez “el Velloso”, Estudios Mindonienses, vol. 5, 1989, 653-661
