IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 507: Christian and Muslim Identity in Medieval Northern Spain

Organiser:	Victor Martínez, Department of Art History, Arkansas State University
Moderator/Chair:	Scott de Brestian, Department of Art & Design, Central Michigan University
Paper 507-a	Almofalla: On the Chronology of Arab Camps in Castile (Language: English) David Peterson, Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Burgos Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History, Onomastics
Paper 507-b	Choosing a Name for the New 'Chosen People': The Challenge of Self-Identification in the Asturian Chronicles (Language: English) John Wreglesworth, Independent Scholar, Banbury Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities, Political Thought
Paper 507-c	Style and Medieval Identity in the Funerary Stele from San Vicente del Valle, Burgos (Language: English) Victor Martínez, Department of Art History, Arkansas State University Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Sculpture
Abstract	The Upper Ebro Valley was an area of diverse cultural influences throughout the early medieval period, producing a rich corpus of texts and material culture that record local interests, strategies of convivencia, and/or regional identities for Christians and Muslims. Each paper is this session offers a case study illustrating the complex identities in contact in the region, framed in terms of the epigraphic, toponymic, and visual.