IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1535: Negotiating Iberian Borderlands, I: Common Themes, Uncommon Borders
Thursday 7 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| 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 1535-a | Negotiating Ethnicity and Religion in a 9th-Century Borderland: Pelayo in the Asturian Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1535-b | 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 1535-c | New Borders, Same Concerns: Food as a Centre of Old Christian Spanish Conversion Efforts within and without Iberia (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 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. These two sessions aim to draw attention to these other borders - with Francia, within Iberian Christendom and its colonial expansion, in cities, and in literary metaphor and historical narrative. |