IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1635: Negotiating Iberian Borderlands, II: Ethnic and Religious Boundaries in Iberian Cities
Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) / Texas Medieval Association (TEMA) |
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| Organisers: | Erica Buchberger, Department of History, University of Texas Maya Soifer Irish, Department of History, Rice University, Texas |
| Moderator/Chair: | Erica Buchberger, Department of History, University of Texas |
| Paper 1635-a | Ethno-Religious Groups and the Politics of Urban Space in Seville (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Law |
| Paper 1635-b | Equity or Exploitation?: Jews, Muslims, and Urban Defence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Law |
| Paper 1635-c | Jewish Meat and Christian Wine: Food and Religious Borders in Medieval Catalan Cities (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Religious Life |
| 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. |