Doing More with Less: Methodological Creativity with Medieval Castilian Sources

Sponsoring Organization(s)

American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS)

Organizer Name

Maya Soifer Irish

Organizer Affiliation

Rice Univ.

Presider Name

Kyle C. Lincoln

Presider Affiliation

Kalamazoo College

Paper Title 1

Cortes and Currency: The Constitutional Restraint of Coinage in León, 1157-1230

Presenter 1 Name

James Todesca

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Georgia Southern Univ.

Paper Title 2

Sources for the Ordeal: Reading the Fueros of Medieval Castile

Presenter 2 Name

Rachel Q. Welsh

Presenter 2 Affiliation

New York Univ.

Paper Title 3

Multiple (and Sometimes Successful) Strategies for Confronting the Source Problem in Fourteenth-Century Castilian History

Presenter 3 Name

L. J. Andrew Villalon

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Cincinnati

Start Date

11-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Fetzer 2016

Description

This session seeks to explore how scholars of medieval Castile work with and sometimes around troublesome sources. There is a relative paucity of textual evidence from medieval Castile, and some scholars have therefore gravitated towards its more well-documented neighbors in eastern Iberia, including Catalonia and Aragon. Scholars of Castile during the High Middle Ages, therefore, are obliged to be resourceful. This panel seeks to bring together scholars of medieval Castile to discuss methodological creativity – doing more with less. It will foster discussion on interdisciplinary and collaborative research and the value of looking across disciplines for relevant source material. Maya Soifer Irish