Winner of the 2025 La corónica International Book Award

Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and The World, 711-1031 (Oxford University Press, 2023) explores literacy in early medieval Christian Iberia through a comprehensive examination of over 4000 Latin charters dating from 711 to 1031. The author brings together this vast corpus of legal texts from archives across the Peninsula, the overwhelming majority of which concern property and ownership, and shows how scribes and the members of the society that they served developed shared textual communities “and created a written world in which parchment was power, each text opening onto others.” By providing a new framework for understanding the role of written texts, it significantly influences the interdisciplinary field of medieval Iberia and proposes a new model of early medieval reading based not on books, but fragments of texts cited in charters.