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If you were not able to attend the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo this year, or if you have not been following Mediber in your e-mail inbox, or if you have not visited our web page recently (www.lacoronica.org), or if you do not follow us on Twitter (@La_coronica), then you may be one of the few who have not heard that the La corónica International Book Award went to Dr. Nicola Clarke this year for The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives (Routledge, 2012). Members of the award committee praise Dr. Clarke’s book as more than a synthesis of various Arabic sources concerning the arrival of Muslims to the Iberian Peninsula in 711. In the words of one juror, The Muslim Conquest of Iberia is also a work that “explores how this event has been made to mean different things for different people at different times”. Dr. Clarke’s study also uncovers how the events of 711 address concerns among Muslim historians regarding the role of Berbers and other non-Arab communities in the expansion of Islam, as well as when and how imperialism can be legitimated. I hope you will be able to join us in Kalamazoo next year at our panel discussion of Dr. Clarke’s outstanding book, and help us celebrate her achievement and contribution to our field.

As always, I want to thank our book review editor, Professor Mark Johnston, for his support in organizing the award committee and presiding over our sponsored sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies. Not only do these events increase awareness of our contributions to Medieval Studies in general, but they provide for collegial encounters that help us discover new directions in our own research and teaching.

We continue to reach out to our colleagues and new scholars at international conferences, and I am pleased to report that our second annual sponsored session at the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference was a huge success, thanks in large part to the efforts of our associate editor, Emily Francomano. Please watch for our call for papers in the announcements for the 2015 KFLC, and join us after the talks for the La corónica reception. I hope this annual return to the old Kentucky home of La corónica will become a warmly anticipated reunion for all of us. On a personal note, I love visiting Lexington [End Page 1] in the Spring, the campus and surrounding countryside are in bloom (there are some good fly-fishing streams nearby too), and the KFLC always feels more intimate and welcoming, especially for hispanists.

Each year we express our thanks to the jurors who help us maintain the standards of excellence we have come to expect from La corónica. I personally want to express my gratitude for their generosity, and recognize them in the list of individuals who contributed their time and expertise this year:

  • Francisco Bautista

  • Emily C. Francomano

  • Michelle Hamilton

  • Gregory Hutcheson

  • Jesús D. Rodríguez Velasco

  • Barbara Weissberger

  • Simon Pinet

  • Wendell Smith

  • Ivy Corfis

  • Connie Scarborough

  • Matilde Miquel

  • Amadeo Serra Desfilis

  • Patricia Grieve

  • Nieves Baranda

  • Noel Fallows

  • Santiago López-Ríos

  • Denise Filios

  • Julio Hernando

  • Michael Harney

  • Ryan Giles

  • Rafael Beltrán

  • Javier Guijarro Ceballos

  • Roxanna Recio

  • Antonio Cortijo Ocana

  • Jean Dangler

  • Gretchen Starr-Lebeau

  • Eric Naylor

  • Gloria Chicote

  • Michael Vargas

  • Teófilo Ruiz

  • Leonardo Funes

  • Nancy Marino

  • Harvey Sharrer

As a final acknowledgement, the senior editorial staff joins me in expressing our gratitude to Associate Dean Chad Allen and Dean Mark Shanda, College of Arts and Sciences, and to Glenn Martínez, Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at The Ohio State University. We also thank Dean Danny Anderson, Associate Dean Ann Cudd of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Stuart Day, at the University of Kansas; and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. Without their continued financial support, this journal could not continue. [End Page 2]

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