CONGRESS CANCELED Courting Disaster: Precarious Limits at the Courts of Medieval Iberia
Description
In both the Christian and Muslim realms of medieval and early-modern Iberia, the court stood as a primary site of the litigation, establishment, and re-negotiation of diverse, often intersecting boundaries. The restriction, as well as the expansion, of the limits drawn around acceptable behavior and fashion, social identity, available or licit knowledge, geography, and human identity itself were often contested and attached to the possibility of arbitration through violence. This panel seeks to create conversations among scholars of various fields examining representations of the adjudication, contestation, or enforcement of limits at court. Robin Bower
CONGRESS CANCELED Courting Disaster: Precarious Limits at the Courts of Medieval Iberia
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In both the Christian and Muslim realms of medieval and early-modern Iberia, the court stood as a primary site of the litigation, establishment, and re-negotiation of diverse, often intersecting boundaries. The restriction, as well as the expansion, of the limits drawn around acceptable behavior and fashion, social identity, available or licit knowledge, geography, and human identity itself were often contested and attached to the possibility of arbitration through violence. This panel seeks to create conversations among scholars of various fields examining representations of the adjudication, contestation, or enforcement of limits at court. Robin Bower