IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1614: Negotiating Medieval Iberian Borderlands
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) / Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) |
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Organiser: | Erica Buchberger, Department of History, University of Texas |
Moderator/Chair: | Maya Soifer Irish, Department of History, Rice University, Texas |
Paper 1614-a | An African Frontier?: Breaking the Conceptual Borders between Iberia and the Maghreb in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities |
Paper 1614-b | Negotiating Ethnicity and Religion in a 9th-Century Borderland: Pelayo in the Asturian Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
Paper 1614-c | Thieves, Liars, and Murderers: The Basques, the Navarrese, and the Historiography of the Disaster at Roncesvalles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1614-d | Religious Contact and the Thin Border between the Natural and Supernatural Worlds in Two Scenes from the Libro del caballero Zifar (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese |
Abstract | It has long been recognized that the 'border' between Christian and Muslim Iberia was not a tidy line but a fluid border region of shifting alliances, diverse layers of identity, and code-switching. Myths of clear-cut divisions were built through various stages of narrative and artistic construction for specific purposes in specific eras, and not always around the Christian-Muslim divide. There were many other active borderlands where territory, identities, and ideas were negotiated. This session aims to draw attention to these other borders - with Francia and Africa, within Iberian Christendom, and playing out in literary metaphor and narrative. |