BETWEEN TOLERANCE AND CONFLICT. JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, FROM THE 8TH TO THE 17TH CENTURY (51078)

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1 BETWEEN TOLERANCE AND CONFLICT. JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN THE IBERIAN PENINSULA, FROM THE 8TH TO THE 17TH CENTURY (51078) Session 1 Presenting the course Session 2 Convivencia. About living together and other basic concepts Session 3 Julian, count of Ceuta. The Muslim conquest of Iberia Student s oral presentation. Janina M. Safran, Identity and Differentiation in Ninth-Century al-andalus, Speculum, 76 (2001), Session 4 Said al-andalusi, an historian of Toledo. Arabic learning about the other Student s oral presentation. Aziz Al-Azmeh, "Barbarians in Arab Eyes", Past and Present, 134 (1992), 3-18 Session 5 Abd al-rahman III, an Umayyad ruler in al-andalus. The caliphs of Córdoba Student s oral presentation. Nada Mourtada-Sabbah / Adrian Gully, 'I Am, by God, Fit for High Positions': On the Political Role of Women in al-andalus, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 30 (2003), Session 6 Ibn Hazm, a Muslim polemist. Islam and Islamization in al-andalus Student s oral presentation. Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, Some Neglected Aspects of Medieval Muslim Polemics against Christianity, The Harvard Theological Review, 89 (1996), 61-84

2 Session 7 Solomon ibn Gabirol, a poet of wine and love. Arabization of Jews and Christians in al-andalus Student s oral presentation. Norman Roth, "Deal Gently with the young man. Love of Boys in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Spain", Speculum, 57 (1982), Session 8 Samuel ibn Naghrela, a Jewish vizier. Jews in al-andalus Student s oral presentation. Stephen Sharot, Minority Situation and Religious Acculturation: A Comparative Analysis of Jewish Communities, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 16 (1974), Session 9 Eulogius, a Christian martyr of Córdoba. Christians in al-andalus Student s oral presentation. Eleanor A. Doumato, Hearing Other Voices: Christian Women and the Coming of Islam, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 23 (1991), Session 10 Averroes, an Aristotelian in al-andalus. Discovering the sciences of the Ancient Student s oral presentation. Helen Lemay, The Stars and Human Sexuality: Some Medieval Scientific Views, Isis, 71 (1980), Session 11 Ibn Tumart, a Berber mahdi. Almoravids and Almohads in al-andalus Student s oral presentation. Elena Lourie, A Society Organized for War: Medieval Spain, Past and Present, 35 (1966), Session 12 Midterm exam

3 Session 13 James I, king and conqueror of València. Struggling in the name of the Cross Student s oral presentation. James F. Powers, "Frontier Municipal Baths and Social Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Spain", The American Historical Review, 84/3 (1979), Session 14 Mariem, a mora of Alasquer. Muslims under Christian rule Student s oral presentation. Robert Ignatius Burns, Journey from Islam: Incipient Cultural Transition in the Conquered Kingdom of Valencia ( ), Speculum, 35 (1960), Session 15 Llúcia, a nigra and serva of Barcelona. Muslim slaves in the cities of Student s oral presentation. James H. Sweet, The Iberian Roots of American Racist Tought, The William and Mary Quarterly, 54 (1997), Session 16 Jucef Avanaio, the king s lion healer. Jews in Student s oral presentation. David Nirenberg, Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain, The American Historical Review, 107 (2002), Session 17 Nahmanides, a pious Jew of Girona. Jewish assimilation and its limits Student s oral presentation. Robert Chazan, The Barcelona Disputation of 1263: Christian Missionizing and Jewish Response, Speculum, 52 (1977), Session 18 A master of good coitus. Discovering the sciences of the Ancient

4 Student s oral presentation. Luis Garcia-Ballester / Lola Ferre / Eduard Feliu, Jewish Appreciation of Fourteenth-Century Scholastic Medicine, Osiris, 6 (1990), Session 19 Yehuda ben Moshe, a Jew serving the king. Translators and translations in Toledo Student s oral presentation. Jeremy Cohen, Scholarship and Intolerance in the Medieval Academy: The Study and Evaluation of Judaism in European Christendom, The American Historical Review, 91 (1986), Session 20 Alfonso X of Castile, king and lawmaker. Defining boundaries in Student s oral presentation. Robert Chazan, From Friar Paul to Friar Raymond: The Development of Innovative Missionizing Argumentation, The Harvard Theological Review, 76 (1983), Session 21 Ferran Martínez, archdeacon of Seville. An humiliating and persecuting order in Student s oral presentation. John M. McCulloh, Jewish Ritual Murder: William of Norwich, Thomas of Monmouth, and the Early Dissemination of the Myth, Speculum, 72 (1997), Session 22 Inés Lopez, a converso of Ciudad Real. Conversos and judaizantes in Student s oral presentation. Jerome Friedman, Jewish Conversion, the Spanish Pure Blood Laws and Reformation: A Revisionist View of Racial and Religious Antisemitism, Sixteenth Century Journal, 18 (1987), 3-30 Session 23 Don Isaac Abrabanel, a better Jew from Lisbon. The expulsion of the

5 Jews Student s oral presentation. Henry Kamen, The Mediterranean and the Expulsion of Spanish Jews in 1492, Past and Present, 119, (1988), Session 24 Tomás de Torquemada, a General of the Holy Office. The Spanish Inquisition, a persecuting institution Student s oral presentation. Irene Silverblatt, New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42 (2000), Session 25 Ice de Gebir, a mufti of Segovia. Moros and Moriscos in Christian Iberia Student s oral presentation. Ronald E. Surtz, Morisco Women, Written Texts, and the Valencia Inquisition, Sixteenth Century Journal, 32 (2001), Session 26 Juan de Ribera, a bishop of València. The expulsion of the Moriscos Student s oral presentation. Henry Kamen, Toleration and Dissent in Sixteenth-Century Spain: The Alternative Tradition, Sixteenth Century Journal, 19 (1988), 3-23 Session 27 Final exam

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