42nd
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 10-13, 2007)
Sessions sponsored by the American
Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) or the
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (SSPHS)
AARHMS Session no. 1
Beyond Powerful: New Approaches to
Iberian Monarchy in the Middle Ages I
Organizer: Theresa Earenfight
(Seattle University)
Presider: Miriam Shadis (Ohio
University)
1. Architectural Patronage and the
Asturian Monarchy: Alfonso II and San Julián de los Prados,
Flora Ward (University of
Toronto)
2. Dynastic Propaganda and the
Consolidation of States in Twelfth-Century Aragon, Eileen McKiernan González
(Berea College)
3. Constructing Power: the Mudejar
Residences of Isabel I of Castile, Danya Crites (University of Iowa)
AARHMS Session no. 2
Beyond Powerful: New Approaches to
Iberian Monarchy in the Middle Ages II
Organizer: Theresa Earenfight
(Seattle University)
Presider: Theresa Earenfight
(Seattle University)
1. Two Queens of León: Teresa
of Portugal and Berenguela of Castile, Janna Wasilewski (Harvard University)
2. Mothers, Virgins, and Queens:
Making Monarchy in Early Portugal, Miriam Shadis (Ohio University)
Commentator: Theresa Earenfight
(Seattle University)
AARHMS Session no. 3
Reading and Writing Medieval Charters
Organizer: James D’Emilio
(University of South Florida, Tampa)
Presider: Jeffrey A. Bowman
(Kenyon College)
1. Forgery and Ideology in
Eleventh-Century Palencia, Liam Moore (Columbia University)
2. The Jew in the Text: What
Christian Charters tell us about Medieval Jewish Society, Jonathan Ray (Georgetown University)
3. A Monopoly on Writing? Clerical
Notaries in the Rural Market Towns of Medieval Catalonia, Gregory Milton (University of South
Florida, Tampa)
SSPHS Session no. 1
The Papacy and Medieval Iberia
Organizer: James D’Emilio
(University of South Florida, Tampa)
Presider: Jonathan Ray
(Georgetown University)
1. Martin of Braga, De trina mersione, and Petrine Primacy in the
Suevic Kingdom of Gallaecia, Alberto
Ferreiro (Seattle Pacific University)
2. The Papacy and Church Reform in Late Twelfth-Century León and
Castile, James D’Emilio
(University of South Florida, Tampa)
3. Papal Reform and the Jews in Thirteenth-Century Castile, Maya K. Soifer (Princeton University)
SSPHS Session no. 2
Peacemaking, Mediation, and the Idea
of Peace in Medieval Iberia
Organizer: Anne Marie Wolf
(University of Portland)
Presider: Anne Marie Wolf
(University of Portland)
1. Alfonso X and the Pragmatic Idea
of ‘Convivencia’, H. Salvador
Martínez (New York University)
2. Strategies of Litigation and
Mediation in Thirteenth-Century Tortosa, Thomas Barton (Oberlin College)
3. Negotiating Cultures: Interludes
of Peace on Both Sides of the Mediterranean, Yvonne Friedman (Bar-Ilan
University, Israel)
Commentator: Simon Doubleday
(Hofstra University)
SSPHS Session no. 3
Mendicants in Spain: Religion and
Reform
Organizer: Jessica A. Boon
(Perkins School of Theology)
Presider: Jessica A. Boon
(Perkins School of Theology)
1: Poverty and the Passion: Arnau de
Vilanova’s Spiritual Antidote for the Poisonous Doctrine of Religious
Mendicants, Lori Woods
(University of Toronto)
2. ‘De vita spirituali’: St. Vincent
Ferrer, Cardinal Cisneros, and Fifteenth-Century Devotional Practices
in Spain, Taryn E. L. Chubb
(Cornell University)
3. Sts. Francis and Dominic in
Renaissance Spain, Adam G.
Beaver (Harvard University)
SSPHS Session no. 4
Women’s Religious Life in Medieval
Portugal
Organizer: Maria de Lurdes Rosa
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Presider: Miriam Shadis (Ohio
University)
1. Current Portuguese Research on Religious Beliefs and Practices of
Medieval Women (Portugal, 10th-15th Centuries), Maria de Lurdes Rosa (Universidade
Nova de Lisboa)
2. Princess ‘Saint’ Joana (1452-1490): Biography and Hagiography, Gilberto Moiteiro (Universidade Nova
de Lisboa)
3. Beguines and Anchorites in Late Medieval Portugal, João Luis Fontes
(Universidade Nova de Lisboa)