Historians of Medieval Iberia

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Historians of Medieval Iberia:
Enemies and Friends
A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium organised by the Centre for
Medieval Studies and funded by the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
for International Scientific Collaboration and the Swedish Research
Council (VR).
„ Time and place: March 14 to 16, 2016.
Swedish History Museum/Historiska museet,
Narvavägen 13-17 (T Karlaplan).
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Centre for Medieval Studies

Historians of Medieval Iberia
Enemies and Friends

A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium

Swedish History Museum
14 to 16 March 2016

Organised by
Kurt Villads Jensen
Anthony Lappin
Kim Bergqvist

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Detailed Programme for the Marcus Wallenberg Symposium
Historians of Medieval Iberia: Enemies and Friends

March 14

8:00-8:45 Registration, Swedish History Museum, Narvav. 13-17

8:45-9:00 Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Professor Bengt
Novén (Stockholm University) and Professor Anthony Lappin (Maynooth
University, Ireland)

9:00-10:00 Keynote 1. Auditorium
Simon Barton (University of Exeter): Leaders and Followers on the Medieval
Iberian Frontier

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:00 Session 1
1A (Auditorium): Alfonso X of Castile and the birth of romance historiography:
Between heterogeneity and uniformity (1)

1B (Red Room): Beyond traditional stereotypes: diplomacy, piracy and military
conflict in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 2
2A (Red Room): Alfonso X of Castile and the birth of romance historiography:
Between heterogeneity and uniformity (2)

2B (Auditorium): Beyond ”triumph” and ”spoils”. Artistic exchanges in Medieval
and Early Modern Iberia
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15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 3
3A (Red Room): Friends and enemies in the Iberian Peninsula, 650-900

3B (Auditorium): Crossroads and exchanges of art and aesthetics

17:00-18:00 Keynote 2. Auditorium
Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid): Other Muslims as enemies: a view from al-Andalus

March 15

9:00-10:30 Session 4
4A (Auditorium): Institutional conflict in medieval Iberia

4B (Red Room): Communal religion

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Session 5
5A (Auditorium): Military conflicts and views of the Reconquest

5B (Red Room): Conversion and its discontents

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:30 Keynote 3. Auditorium
Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University, NY): The Wise King’s Nightmare

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14:30-16:00 Session 6
6A (Auditorium): Politics and civil war in late medieval Castile

6B (Red Room): Cathedrals of conflict in León and Castile, 11–14th centuries

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Session 7
7A (Auditorium): Diplomacy and conflict resolution

7B (Red Room): Conflict and cooperation in the context of the taifa kingdoms

19:00 Reception (Buffet) in City Hall, hosted by the City of Stockholm

March 16

9:00-10:30 Session 8
8A (Auditorium): Cross-cultural friendships in the Reconquest era

8B (Red Room): Legitimising the past and imagining the future

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Keynote 4. Auditorium
Maria João Violante Branco (FCSH/NOVA University of Lisbon): Befriending and
Offending Kings and Popes in the Iberian Peninsula (mid 12th–mid 13th centuries):
The Makings of a Complex Relationship

12:00-13:15 Lunch

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13:15-14:45 Session 9
9A (Red Room): Iberia and Europe in the Middle Ages

9B (Auditorium): Intercultural relations

14:45-15:15 Coffee Break

15:15-16:45 Session 10. Auditorium
10: Poets and adventurers

16:45-17:30 Summary and General Meeting
17:30-17:45 Closing of the Symposium by Professor Kurt Villads Jensen
(Stockholm University)

18:00-19:00 Guided tour of the Swedish History Museum

March 17

9:30-15:00 Excursion. Pick-up at the Swedish History Museum, drop-off at
Arlanda Airport 15:00 or Stockholm City ca. 15:45

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Sessions. Monday 14 March

Session 1. 10:30-12:00

Session 1A. Auditorium
Alfonso X of Castile and the Birth of Romance Historiography: Between
Heterogeneity and Uniformity (1)
(Organisers: Francisco Peña-Fernández and David Navarro)
Chair: Jerrilynn D. Dodds (Sarah Lawrence)

Paper 1: Francisco Peña-Fernández (University of British Columbia), Writing as a
Christian: Crypto-Jewish Writers in the Alfonsine Scriptorium

Paper 2: David Navarro (Texas State University), The Presence of Rabbinical
Exegesis in the Story of Noah in the General Estoria

Paper 3: Guadalupe González-Diéguez (Indiana University), On An Arabic
Source of the General Estoria: the Book of Roads and Kingdoms (Kitāb al-Masālik
wa-al-Mamālik) by Al-Bakrī (ca. 1068)

Session 1B. Red Room
Beyond traditional stereotypes: diplomacy, piracy and military conflict in the
Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
(Organiser: Marta Manso Rubio)
Chair: Jonathan Wilson (University of Liverpool)

Paper 1: Marta Manso Rubio (Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC / University of
Barcelona), Diplomatic exchanges in Medieval Iberia: blurred conceptions of
enmity and friendship in the peace treaties signed between the Crown of Aragon
and Granada (1326-1345)

Paper 2: Victòria Burguera Puigserver (Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC), Fake
friends or undercover enemies? Piracy among the subjects of the Crown of
Aragon at the beginnings of the 15th century
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Paper 3: Pol Junyent Molins (Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC), Old and new
enemies (1420-1433): The difficulties of organizing a Royal fleet against the
Tunisian island of Djerba

Session 2. 13:30-15:00

Session 2A. Red Room
Alfonso X of Castile and the Birth of Romance Historiography: Between
Heterogeneity and Uniformity (2) (Organisers: Francisco Peña-Fernández and
David Navarro)
Chair: David Navarro (Texas State University)

Paper 1: David Wacks (University of Oregon), The “Cantar de los Cantares” in the
General Estoria. A product of intellectual collaboration between Jewish and
Christian scholars?

Paper 2: Robert Daum (University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser
University), Reading the Rabbis in Medieval Castile

Session 2B. Auditorium
Beyond "triumph" and "spoils". Artistic exchanges in Medieval and Early
Modern Iberia (Organisers: Elena Paulino Montero and Borja Franco Llopis)
Chair: Borja Franco Llopis (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

Paper 1: Allegra Iafrate (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence), Opus Salomonis:
casting bronze like Hiram in Medieval Spain

Paper 2: Francisco de Asís García García (Complutense University of Madrid),
Towards a reassessment of Iberian material and visual interactions between
Islam and Christianity in the Romanesque period

Paper 3: Elena Paulino Montero (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence), Beyond
“booty” and “triumph”. Courtly ideal and artistic choices of the Castilian nobility
at the end of the fourteenth century
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Session 3. 15:30-17:00

Session 3A. Red Room
Friends and enemies in the Iberian Peninsula, 650-900 (Organiser: Roger
Wright)
Chair: Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid)

Paper 1: Roger Wright (University of Liverpool), Romance-speaking “Berbers” and
Hispano-Romans; friends or enemies?

Paper 2: John Wreglesworth (Independent Scholar), Moving and Reading
between the Lines… Muslim Warlords, Christian Kings and Asturian Chronicles

Paper 3: David Peterson (University of the Basque Countries), Hybrid place-
names in Spain and England as evidence of early medieval conquest

Session 3B. Auditorium
Crossroads and exchanges of art and aesthetics
Chair: Jaume Aurell (University of Navarra)

Paper 1: María Marcos Cobaleda (University of Granada), Artistic Exchanges
across the Strait of Gibraltar during the Almoravid Period

Paper 2: Herbert González Zymla (Complutense University of Madrid), The
Reliquary-Altar Piece of the Monastery of Piedra in Saragossa (Spain): the
crossroads of Christian, Jewish and Muslim aesthetic around 1390

Paper 3: Jerrilynn D. Dodds (Sarah Lawrence), Architecture and Ambivalence on
the Frontier

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