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 PalenciaLiam 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)

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