IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 323: Transitions on an Islamic Frontier in Southwestern Iberia, 12th-13th Centuries
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Centro de História, Universidade de Lisboa / ERA Arqueologia, Lisboa |
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Organiser: | Hermenegildo Fernandes, Centro de História, Universidade de Lisboa |
Moderator/Chair: | Hermenegildo Fernandes, Centro de História, Universidade de Lisboa |
Paper 323-a | Frontier of Gharb al-Andalus: Confrontation Ground between Almoravids and Christians, 1093-1147 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History |
Paper 323-b | Urban Hierarchies and the Role of Ulemah in Late Islamic Gharb al-Andalus (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
Paper 323-c | Urban Change in Lisbon, 11th-13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Urban, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 323-d | Identities and Transition in Medieval Lisbon: The Case of the Rua dos Lagares Necropolis (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - Sites, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Abstract | Between the late 11th century and the middle of the 13th century southwestern Iberia (the Gharb al-Andalus) becomes a frontier society. General militarization has direct impact on social structures as well as on the urban system that since the Roman period had been the regional back bone. Still, in spite of threats derived from latent war and the setbacks of a war driven economy, most of the cities not only manage to survive but experience a significant rate of growth. In this session we will observe this from four different perspectives: the politics of a western frontier at a broad scale; the role of urban religious elites in a frontier society; urban transitions in the period seen through the case of Lisbon; finally, religious transitions and the making of complex identities observed through burial practices. |