In December last year, 2017, Simon Barton, a member of this research project and Professor of History at the University of Central Florida (USA), left us suddenly. Specialist in the politics, society and culture of medieval Iberia, Islam and the medieval West, aristocratic society in the Latin West and the development of Spanish national identity, dealt with the theme of women in the Iberian Peninsula in her famous book Conquerors, Brides, and Concubines: Interfaith Relations and Social Power in Medieval Iberia (2015), as well as in other works such as “Noble Women and Power in the Kingdoms of León and Castile in the 12th Century” (2011). Unfortunately Simon could not see the granting of this research project, which he hoped always had “fingers crossed” for it to be granted. From here, we express our eternal gratitude to your contribution to make NAZAMER’s execution finally possible; serve this simple memory as a sense of recognition of his memory and his work.
