SSPHS AT KALAMAZOO, 2003
At the 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Western Michigan
University, Kalamazoo), the following sessions are being sponsored by the
Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies:
Session 103: Bernhard 159 (Thursday, May 8, 1:30 PM)
Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia I: Visigothic Spain and
Its Legacy
Presider: Lucy K. Pick, University of Chicago
“Priests and Christian Identity in the Later Visigothic Kingdom”
-Rachel Stocking, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
“Visigothic or Reconquest Architecture? New Evidence from Toledo Province”
-Sally Garen, Marymount University
“Saints' Cults and Communities in Early Medieval Galicia”
James D'Emilio, University of South Florida (Tampa)
Session 163: Bernhard 159 (Thursday, May 8, 3:30 PM)
Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia II: A Multiconfessional
Society (jointly sponsored by the Institute for Medieval Studies,
University of New Mexico)
Presider: James D'Emilio
“A Matter of Perspective: Determining the Nature of Inter-Confessional
Relations in Medieval Iberia”
-Brian A. Catlos, University of California-Santa Cruz
“But, Does It Say Anything? The Corpus of Inscriptions in "Mudejar" Palace-Convents
of the Fourteenth Century”
-Cynthia Robinson, University of New Mexico
“Mudejar Qur'ans?”
-Heather Ecker, Smithsonian Institution
Session 281: Bernhard 211 (Friday, May 9, 1:30 PM)
Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia III: Frontier-Crossing
and Communities at War
Presider: James D'Emilio
“From Mercenary to Crusader: The Career of Alvaro Perez de Castro (d.
1239) Reconsidered”
-Simon Barton, University of Exeter
“The Lara Family and the Frontiers of Thirteenth-Century Iberia”
-Simon Doubleday, Hofstra University
“The Tempering Fire: Leadership and Communities under Siege in Medieval
Iberia”
-Marta van Landingham, Purdue University
Session 343: Bernhard 211 (Friday, May 9, 3:30 PM)
Communities and Identities in Medieval Iberia IV: Constructing History
Presider: Simon Barton, University of Exeter
“Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion: The Construction of National
Identity in Fernão Lopes' Chronicles”
-Amélia P. Hutchinson, University of Georgia
“Re-Imagining the Medieval City: Metaphorical Space in the Topographical
Views of Anton van den Wyngaerde”
-Shelley E. Roff, University of Texas-San Antonio