Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: colloquium on works in progress
April 12, 2000, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
April 13, 2000, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Second Floor Conference Room, Rice Memorial Center
Organizer: David Nirenberg, niren@rice.edu, 713-348-2784
A number of medievalists working on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations in the Iberian Peninsula are gathering at Rice for a small symposium before proceeding on to the Medieval Academy. We will be meeting to discuss pre-circulated papers in a seminar format. Visiting participants are as follows:
April 12:
Tom Buhrman, University of Tennessee, "The Christian Margins of the Qur'an: Latin Marginalia in Medieval Qur'an Manuscripts"
Larry Simon, Western Michigan State University, "The Franciscan Attack on the New Synagogue of Mallorca City (1298)"
John Tolan, University of Wisconsin, Universite' de Nantes (after 6/15/00), "What Place for Islam in the Divine Plan of History? 13th-Century Christian Chroniclers on the Saracens"
Amy Remensnyder, Brown University, "The Virgin Mary and the Spiritual Politics of Borders and Borderlands"
(An additional presenter and paper may be added.)
April 13:
Kathryn Miller, Stanford University, tba
Ana Echevarria, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, "De mudéjar a converso. Situaciones de transición en la Castilla del siglo XV"
Since we are using a seminar format, the speaker will briefly introduce the pre-circulated paper, and then we will discuss it for approximately an hour. Copies of the papers, either hard copies or e-documents, will be available from the Center for the Study of Cultures (culture@rice.edu), x2770. Please let us know what papers you are interested in and we will circulate them to you as we receive them.
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