Historians of Medieval Iberia:Enemies and FriendsA Marcus Wallenberg Symposium organised by the Centre forMedieval Studies and funded by the Marcus Wallenberg Foundationfor International Scientific Collaboration and the Swedish ResearchCouncil (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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Tuesday 15 March Session 4. 9:00-10:30 Session 4A. Auditorium Institutional conflict in medieval Iberia Chair: Susana Guijarro (University of Cantabria) Paper 1: Armando Norte (University of Lisbon), Town versus University in medieval Portugal: conflict, competition, cooperation and symbiosis Paper 2: Francisco García-Serrano (Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus), Between Enemies and Friends: The Role of the Mendicant Friars as Mediators in the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond Paper 3: André de Oliveria Leitão (University of Lisbon), From friends to enemies... and friends, yet again: church and studium in 14th century Portugal Session 4B. Red Room Communal religion Chair: Francisco Peña-Fernández (University of British Columbia) Paper 1: Susan L. Aguilar (Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California), Jewish-Christian Relationships in Teruel, Aragon: The Municipal Response to 1391 Paper 2: Madera Allan (Lawrence University), Breaking Bread with Enemies: Juan de Chinchilla’s Challenge to Inquisitorial Community
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Session 5. 11:00-12:30 Session 5A. Auditorium Military conflicts and views of the Reconquest Chair: Simon Barton (University of Exeter) Paper 1: Jonathan Wilson (University of Liverpool), Enemies and Friends in the Portuguese ‘Reconquista’; a Cistercian point-of-view Paper 2: Edward Holt (Saint Louis University), Bayna tagiyatin wa anatin: Muslim perspectives on Fernando III of Castile-León Paper 3: Inês Meira Araújo (University of Lisbon), Facing the enemy in iron and steel. The role of armourers and their workshops in the Portuguese military conflicts of the 15th century Session 5B. Red Room Conversion and its discontents Chair: Robert Daum (University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser University) Paper 1: Thomas C. Devaney (University of Helsinki, Collegium for Advanced Study / University of Rochester), The Poetics of Conversion in Late-Medieval Castile Paper 2: Alexander Marey (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow), A Friendship and a Faith as Non-juridical Regulators of the Juridical Life of Medieval Castile
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Session 6. 14:30-16:00 Session 6A. Auditorium Politics and civil war in late medieval Castile Chair: Kim Bergqvist (Stockholm University) Paper 1: David Cantor-Echols (University of Chicago), Favorites and Traitors: the privados of Alfonso XI of Castile Paper 2: Covadonga Valdaliso (University of Lisbon), The Asturian Brotherhood of 1367: a Controversial Fraternity of Urban Knights in the Castilian Civil War Paper 3: Jamie Ellis (Trinity House, University of Cambridge), Enemies that Should be Friends: The Chivalric Response to Civil War in Fifteenth Century Castile Session 6B. Red Room Cathedrals of conflict in León and Castile, 11–14th centuries Chair: Francisco García-Serrano (Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus) Paper 1: Leticia Agúndez (University of the Basque Country), Early allies and long-standing enemies: the production of manuscripts as evidence of the conflict between the León Cathedral and the Sahagún Monastery (eleventh-fourteenth centuries) Paper 2: Kyle C. Lincoln (Webster University), Cathedrals, in conflict and cooperation: Clerical (mis/dis)obedience in the Kingdom of Castile, c. 1180-1220 Paper 3: Susana Guijarro (University of Cantabria), Discipline and Peace versus Conflict in a Medieval institution: the Cathedral Clergy of Burgos during the Fifteenth Century
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Session 7. 16:30-18:00 Session 7A. Auditorium Diplomacy and conflict resolution Chair: Flocel Sabaté (University of Lleida) Paper 1: André Evangelista Marques (Nova University of Lisbon), Befriending one’s enemies: the rhetoric of conflict and agreement in Portuguese dispute texts (10th-11th centuries) Paper 2: Ana Paula Leite Rodrigues (Nova University of Lisbon), “You Are In The Land Of Our Enemies”. Diplomatic Relations Between Portugal And Castile Reflected In The Development Of A Cross-Border Monastery (12th- 15th Centuries) Paper 3: Diana Pelaz Flores (University of Valladolid), Female Friendship in the Castilian Queen's Household in the XVth Century Session 7B. Red Room Conflict and cooperation in the context of the taifa kingdoms Chair: Kurt Villads Jensen (Stockholm University) Paper 1: Liran Yadgar (Yale University), Hasdai ibn Joseph ibn Hasdai: A Jewish vizier at the Saragossan court Paper 2: Ana Miranda (University of Lisbon), Love thy enemy? Conflict and cooperation between the petty kingdoms of Badajoz and Seville in 11th-century al-Andalus Paper 3: Ghislain Baury (Université du Maine), Actual and imaginary friends and foes of Rodrigo Díaz, the “Cid” (11th–21st c.)
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Wednesday 16 March Session 8. 9:00-10:30 Session 8A. Auditorium Cross-cultural friendships in the Reconquest era Chair: Simon Doubleday (Hofstra University) Paper 1: Enass N. W. Khansa (Georgetown University), The Untold Story of Alfonso the Great & ‘Abd al-Raḥmān III Paper 2: Mohamad Ballan (University of Chicago), “Zafadola Amicus Mei”: A Reconsideration of the Relationship between Sayf al-Dawla Ahmad ibn Hud (d. 1146) and Alfonso VII (d. 1157) Paper 3: Fernando Branco Correia (University of Évora), Ma m̨ud ibn ‘Abd al-Gabbar: Between enemies, friends and ... new enemies Session 8B. Red Room Legitimising the past and imagining the future Chair: Thomas Devaney (University of Helsinki, Collegium for Advanced Study) Paper 1: Isis Gradín Fernández (University of Santiago de Compostela), The enemies in Crónicas asturianas: their past, their present and their future Paper 2: Rodrigo Furtado (University of Lisbon), Beating the enemies with their own weapons: a codex copied in the court of Sancho III, the Great (1004-1035) Paper 3: Israel Sanmartín (University of Santiago de Compostela), The “otherness” in the Utopian space and time in the historiography of Joan de Rocatallada
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Session 9. 13:15-14:45 Session 9A. Red Room Iberia and Europe in the Middle Ages Chair: Roger Wright (University of Liverpool) Paper 1: Elsa Cardoso (University of Lisbon), From Byzantium to Northmen lands: diplomacy and ceremonial in al-Andalus under the rule of amῑr ‘Abd al-Raḥmān II Paper 2: Aimone Grossato (Università delgi Studi di Padova-Venezia-Verona / University of Leipzig), Diplomatic contacts between the Ottonians and the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba in the 10th century in the light of the geopolitical struggle for the Italian Peninsula: Common strategies or common enemies? Session 9B. Auditorium Intercultural relations Chair: Maria João Violante Branco (FCSH/NOVA University of Lisbon) Paper 1: Tiago João Queimada e Silva (University of Turku), Intercultural Marriages and Moorish Vices: Christian–Islamic Confluence in Count D. Pedro’s Book of Lineages Paper 2: Harald Endre Tafjord (Volda University College), A cross-cultural friendship in the Chronica Adefonsi Imperatoris – the case of Zafadola and King Alfonso VII of Castile-León Paper 3: Azzurra Rinaldi (University of Coimbra), Enemies and Friends: Fairy Characters in the Portuguese Livros de Linhagens
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Session 10. 15:15-16:45 Session 10. Auditorium Poets and adventurers Chair: Anthony Lappin (Maynooth University, Ireland) Paper 1: Anan Habeeb (David Yellin College, Jerusalem), Ibn ʽAbdūn al-Yābirī’s Bashāma Poem and Eastern Echo in al-Andalus Paper 2: Josef Zenka (Charles University in Prague), The Friend, the Enemy, and the Exiled: The Granadan “globetrotter“ ‘Ali Ibn Kumasha (ca 1300–after 1391) Paper 3: Daniela Radpay (University of Texas at Austin), To resent or respect? Studying the interactions between Christians and Muslims in Don Juan Manuel’s El Conde Lucanor
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Acknowledgements We thank the following institutions for support, funding, and collaboration: Marcus Wallenbergs Stiftelse för Internationellt Vetenskapligt Samarbete (The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation for International Scientific Collaboration) Vetenskapsrådet (The Swedish Research Council) Områdesnämnden för humaniora, juridik och samhällsvetenskap, Stockholms universitet (Human Science Board, Stockholm University) Internationella beredningen, Stockholms stad (International Affairs, City of Stockholm) Historiska museet (The Swedish History Museum) Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet (Department of History, Stockholm University)
