Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Spanish Historiography: A Digital Humanities Project (A Roundtable)

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

David Wacks

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Oregon

Presider Name

David Wacks

Paper Title 1

Discussant

Presenter 1 Name

Francisco Peña

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of British Columbia-Okanagan

Paper Title 2

Discussant

Presenter 2 Name

Yasmine Beale-Rivaya

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Texas State Univ.-San Marcos

Paper Title 3

Discussant

Presenter 3 Name

David Navarro

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Texas State Univ.-San Marcos

Paper Title 4

Discussant

Presenter 4 Name

Guadalupe González Diéguez

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. de Montréal

Paper Title 5

Discussant

Presenter 5 Name

David Porcel Bueno

Presenter 5 Affiliation

Univ. de Granada/Karl-Franzens-Univ. Graz

Start Date

9-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 2355

Description

Round table session:

Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Spanish Historiography: A Digital Humanities Project

The panel participants are members of an international team of scholars working on an online, open-access digital critical edition of the Biblical narratives contained in the General e Grand Estoria (GGE) of Alfonso X of Castile (r. 1252-1284). The GGE is the only truly ecumenical work in the history of biblical exegesis and secular historiography to include Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and apocryphal interpretations. The GGE was revolutionary in the age of Latin literacy because it made available for readers of the vernacular a history of human experience, beginning with Adam and Eve and ending with the reign of Alfonso X, renowned patron of the arts and sciences. David Wacks