SSPHS and AARHMS at KALAMAZOO, 2006:
Culture and
Society in Medieval Galicia
The Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical
Studies and the
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain are
sponsoring six sessions on Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia
at the 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western
Michigan
University, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 4-7, 2006). The sessions
have been organized by James D'Emilio (University of South Florida) and
Michael Kulikowski (University of Tennessee), and the
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spanish Ministry of Culture
and
United States' Universities and the Samuel
H. Kress Foundation have provided grants to help fund the
participation of European scholars.
The complete program for the Kalamazoo
Congress is available on the Medieval
Institute website.
The SSPHS sessions are:
Medieval Galicia I: The Suevic Kingdom
Presider: Michael Kulikowski (University of Tennessee)
Gallaecia in late antiquity:
geographical periphery and political integration, Pablo C.
Díaz (Universidad de Salamanca)
Suevic kings and Suevic coins:
Rechiar, rex totius Hispaniae, Fernando López
Sánchez (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Death and burial on the frontier: the
so-called Visigothic cemetery reconsidered, Guy Halsall
(University of York)
Medieval Galicia II: Church, Society,
and Culture in Early Medieval Galicia
Presider: James D’Emilio (University of South Florida)
Hagiography and monasticism in early
medieval Galicia: the Vita Sancti Fructuosi, Maribel Dietz
(Louisiana State University)
The Fructuosan ‘revolution’: an
interpretation of the seventh century in Gallaecia through the work of
Fructuosus of Braga, Jorge López Quiroga (with
Mónica Rodríguez Lovelle) (Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid)
Tenth-century wall painting in the
Leonese kingdom: recent discoveries at Santiago de Peñalba and
the Cordoban connection, Milagros Guardia (Universitat de
Barcelona)
Medieval Galicia III: Galicia in the
Asturian and Leonese Kingdoms
Presider: James D’Emilio (University of South Florida)
Deconstructing myths in Gallaecia:
the restructuring and articulation of settlements and territories
(8th-11th centuries), Mónica Rodríguez Lovelle
(with Jorge López Quiroga) (Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela)
The making of a kingdom: early
medieval Galicia, Carlos Baliñas Pérez
(Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Campus de Lugo)
The revolt at Lugo in 1087 and its
aftermath, Lucy K. Pick (University of Chicago)
Medieval Galicia IV: The Cult of St.
James
Presider: Alberto Ferreiro (Seattle Pacific University)
Representations of St. James of
Compostela in the Codex Calixtinus and Historia Silense, Javier
Domínguez García (Utah State University)
The reception of relics and works of
art in medieval Compostela and Galicia, Francisco Singul
(S.A. de Xestión do Plan Xacobeo. Xunta de Galicia)
Art and social conflict in late
medieval Compostela: tradition versus innovation, José
Suárez Otero (Archaeologist, Cathedral of Santiago de
Compostela)The
The AARHMS sessions are:
Medieval Galicia V: The Romanesque
Cathedral of Santiago
Presider: John Williams (University of Pittsburgh)
Aragon, Navarre and the Early
Romanesque Sculpture of Santiago Cathedral, Manuel
Castiñeiras (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya)
The Romanesque cathedral of Santiago
de Compostela: foundations for a new building history, Henrik
Karge (Technische Universitat Dresden)
Compostela and the Romanesque art of
Galicia, James D’Emilio (University of South Florida)
Medieval Galicia VI. Galicia in the
Later Medieval Kingdom of Castile: Marginalization?
Presider: Paul Freedman (Yale University)
Courtly culture and clerical culture
in the thirteenth-century sculpture of the cathedrals of Tui and Ourense,
Rocío Sánchez Ameijeiras (Universidade de Santiago de
Compostela)
Galicia and the Castilian monarchy
(1230-1295): marginalization?, Francisco Javier Pérez
Rodríguez (Universidade de Vigo, Campus de Ourense)
Siervo libre de amor: all things to
all men, David Mackenzie (University College, Cork)