Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands by Kearney, Milo and Medrano, Manuel - 2002

College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. ix, [3], 240 pages. Table. Sources. Index. Generic inscriptions from each author signed inside front cover. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Milo Kearney is a Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville, with an M.A. and a Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor, and a UT Chancellor's Outstanding Teaching Award recipient. Manuel Medrano is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville and a recognized expert on Mexican American history and culture. The land along the U.S. -- Mexican border is often portrayed as the place where two separate cultures meet -- or indeed collide. Their respective ancestral cultures in England and Spain, argue scholars Milo Kearney and Manuel Medrano, had common roots in medieval Europe. Kearney and Medrano explore three interlinking themes. First, they assert that Mexican American borderlands culture cannot be fully understood without knowledge of its medieval underpinnings in both Castile and England. Second, they argue that certain parallels in the medieval evolution of Hispanic and Anglo societies make the two cultures much more closely related than is often realized. Finally, the authors show how, despite these similarities, the origins of Anglo-Hispanic tensions trace back to the Middle Ages. The authors conclude that many of the foundations for the interaction of Hispanic and Anglo societies were laid by the year 1500.