IMC 2024: Sessions

These sessions are devoted to current scholarship on the Iberian Peninsula and neighboring regions in the medieval period. They have the explicit goal of bringing together contributions from diverse scholarly and national communities, since many different groups are working on the Peninsula, and via these sessions we hope to encourage stronger interaction between these groups. The second session is devoted to how Christian protagonists dealt with other religious groups within the Peninsula. The first paper examines how the crusade preacher Martin of León dealt with deviant religious opinions; this sheds light on ideas of how to construct and broadcast orthodox knowledge, tackling notably anti-Jewish sentiments and Martin’s use of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem. The second paper discusses Jewish-Christian relations in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, considering both the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the impact of the Great Western Schism; it aims at establishing links between these two phenomena by implementing both inter-religious and intra-religious perspectives. The third paper investigates the phenomenon that Muslims were enslaved by Christians in Catalonia in the tenth and eleventh centuries, including the role of potential slave raiders; these slaves served at the court of the Count of Barcelona.