Negotiating Orthodoxy in Iberia and across the Mediterranean

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Organizer Name

Larry J. Simon

Organizer Affiliation

Western Michigan Univ.

Presider Name

Kate Hammond

Presider Affiliation

Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Paper Title 1

The Almoravid Annexation of al-Andalus: Shura and Ifta' across the Mediterranean

Presenter 1 Name

Russell Hopley

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Bowdoin College

Paper Title 2

Librum tuum quasi captivum sclavum redemi: Textual Desecration, Captivity, and Redemption in Riccoldo da Montecroce's Five Letters on the Fall of Acre (Epistolae V commentatoriae de perditione Acconis, 1291)

Presenter 2 Name

Brian N. Becker

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Delta State Univ.

Paper Title 3

Forgotten Roads to Jerusalem: Examining the Iberian Context of Garcias de Ayerbe and His Informatio alia de pertinentibus ad passagium (ca. 1322-24)

Presenter 3 Name

Michael J. Sanders

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Fordham Univ.

Paper Title 4

Cultural Symbiosis in Medieval Iberia: An Exploration of the Images on Teruel's Cathedral Ceiling

Presenter 4 Name

Marianne David

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Dalton School

Start Date

10-5-2018 7:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

This session will explore a variety of orthodoxies and deviations from them in the context of pluri-ethnic multi-religious Iberia and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages.

Larry Simon