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  • 16 Oct 2024 11:29 AM | Miguel Gomez (Administrator)

    Please see the below CFP, which may be of interest to AARHMS members:

    CFP_urraca_congreso_2026_VA_TM.pdf

  • 27 Jul 2024 6:40 AM | Kyle C Lincoln (Administrator)

    Therese Martin was awarded the a Margarita Salas Medal by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, which are given for exemplary direction of dissertations and mentoring of emerging scholars.


    When contacted by AARHMS, Prof. Martin said, "I was delighted to have been nominated by my mentees and very pleased that my contributions to the future of Medieval Iberian Studies are recognized as significant by the CSIC."


    Join AARHMS in celebrating Therese's success, and the continued growth of Medieval Iberian studies. Those interested can view the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe-tc-_Ex-0

  • 25 Jul 2024 5:53 AM | Kyle C Lincoln (Administrator)

    A message, below, from one of the editors, Graham Barrett, of the new/updated journal, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, based at the University of Lincoln.


    "Dear fellow medieval Iberianists,


    I am pleased to announce an open and ongoing call for contributions to a new journal, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, coordinated by the Medieval Studies Research Group based at the University of Lincoln (https://www.lincoln.ac.uk/hh/research/medievalstudiesresearchgroup/) and published by the redoubtable ARC Humanities Press (https://www.arc-humanities.org/studies-in-medieval-and-renaissance-sources/).


    This journal is dedicated to 'nuts and bolts' scholarship: to the analysis and interpretation of the sources - written (in any language), visual, or material - for the period from 400 to 1600. We welcome such submissions in any form, from editions, translations, and commentaries to reports, notes, and reflections.


    I am drawing SMRS to the attention of this list because the editorial board includes five Iberianists whose fields range from the fifth century through to the seventeenth (Jamie Wood, myself, Robert Portass, Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, and Laura Fernández González, in chronological order), and we are particularly keen to encourage contributions from our colleagues.


    Please see the attached flyer for guidance on making submissions. The first issue of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, to be published in open access, is now in production, and has significant medieval Iberian content (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802701814/lincoln-readings-of-texts-materials-and-contexts/).


    If you have any questions about contributing to future issues of the journal, do please get in touch!


    With best wishes,

    Graham Barrett"



  • 06 Mar 2024 11:14 AM | Thomas Barton (Administrator)

    The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain is proud to award the 2024 Barton Memorial Junior Scholar Research Grant to Jessica Minieri of Binghamton University (State University of New York) to support archival research in Barcelona and Perpignan and travel to present at a conference in Palermo this summer. The committee was deeply impressed with Minieri’s record of achievement and the clarity and ambition of her doctoral project entitled “Stolen Bodies and Hollow Crown: Abduction and Imprisonment in the Lands of the Crown of Aragon, 1200-1415." These qualities helped Minieri stand out among an unusually large pool of excellent applications.


    The committee would also like to recognize, with an Honorable Mention, Claire Dwyer of Columbia University for her strong proposal relating to her doctoral project entitled “Noblewomen’s Networks Across Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Iberia."


    2024 Prize committee members: Tom Barton, Miguel Gómez, and Marie Kelleher

  • 26 Jan 2024 1:08 PM | Miguel Gomez (Administrator)

    October 3-5, 2024, at the Saint Louis University Madrid campus.

    Submission due March 31.


    I am very interested in organizing one or two (or more) AAHRMS panels for this conference.  Please get in touch (mgomez1 AT udayton DOT edu) if you are interested.


    http://www.crusadestudies.org/symposium-on-crusade-studies.html

  • 16 Nov 2023 9:17 AM | Kyle C Lincoln (Administrator)

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Eleventh Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies

    June 10-12, 2024

    Saint Louis University

    St. Louis, Missouri


    The Eleventh Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 10-12, 2024) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and Renaissance studies.


    The plenary speakers for this year will be Cynthia J. Hahn, of Hunter College and the City University of New York, and John Witte, Jr., of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.


    The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown St. Louis campus of Saint Louis University. On campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned apartments as well as a more luxurious hotel. Inexpensive meal plans are also available, and there is a wealth of restaurants, bars, and cultural venues within easy walking distance of campus.

    While attending the Symposium, participants are free to use the Vatican Film Library, the Rare Books Division, and the general collection at Saint Louis University's Pius XII Memorial Library. These collections offer access to tens of thousands of medieval and early modern manuscripts on microfilm as well as strong holdings in medieval and Renaissance history, literature, languages, manuscript studies, theology, philosophy, and canon law. The Jesuit Archives & Research Center is adjacent to the university and also accessible to Symposium attendees.


    We invite proposals for papers, complete sessions, and roundtables. Any topics regarding the scholarly investigation of the medieval and early modern world are welcome. Papers are normally twenty minutes each and sessions are scheduled for ninety minutes. Scholarly organizations are especially encouraged to sponsor proposals for complete sessions, and organizing at least two sessions in coordination with each other is highly recommended. All sessions are in-person. Mini-conferences hosted by societies or organized around a theme occur in the context of the SMRS.


    Paper submitters are welcome to submit their paper for general consideration at the Symposium or for one of the mini-conferences. This year’s mini-conferences are:

    ● 49th Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies

    ● Boethius 2024: The 1500-Year Memorial Conference 

    ● The 2024 Conference on John Milton 

    The submission portal will open on November 1. The portal has buttons for submission to the main SMRS and for each of the mini-conferences. The deadline for all submissions is December 31, 2023.


    Decisions will be made by the end of January and the final program will be published in March.


    For more information or to submit your proposal online go to: https://www.smrs-slu.org/.


    Members of  AARHMS can also consult the pdf version of this Call for Papers here.


  • 07 Aug 2023 12:33 AM | Thomas Barton (Administrator)

    RACE & GENDER IN THE GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES: A WORKING GROUP

     


    https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/raceandgenderglobalmiddleages/ 

     

    Fall 2023 Schedule


    Friday, August 18 at 12pm EST


    Dr. Mohamad Ballan, Assistant Professor of History

    Stonybrook University


    A Discussion of his recent Speculum article “Borderland Anxieties: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatị̄b (d. 1374) and the Politics of Genealogy in Late Medieval Granada.”


    Abstract: This article seeks to contribute to larger scholarly conversations about the construction and deployment of difference in medieval borderland societies. It examines the ways in which genealogical notions of “Arabness” [ʿurūbiyyah], which expressed Islamic identity in terms of Arab lineage, structured the process of identity formation in Nasrid Granada (1232–1492). Through a close reading of the works of the Nasrid scholar-statesman Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khatị̄b (d. 1374) and his intellectual-political network, the article explores how Nasrid elites incorporated “Arabness” into the articulation of a local identity rooted in ethnic cohesion, religious exclusivity, and genealogical continuity. It argues that this constituted a particular strategy of identification that sought to differentiate Nasrid Granada from its neighbors and demarcate the boundaries between al-Andalus, Christian Iberia, and the Maghrib, even as these regions came to be tied even more closely together through political, intellectual, social, and mercantile networks between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The article concludes with a consideration of the “racialization of religion” and the manner in which Ibn al-Khatị̄b integrated ideas about environmental determinism and physiognomy, alongside genealogy, to represent the religious and cultural traits of the inhabitants of Granada as fixed, immutable, and heritable characteristics, the product of both lineage and environment. Through an examination of the racialized production of difference within the dynamic borderland context of late medieval Iberia, this article seeks to invite broader comparative approaches that integrate the medieval Islamic world into discussions about race, racialization, and ethnicity in the Middle Ages.


    Friday, September 22 at 12pm EST


    Craig Perry, Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies

    Emory University


    "Everyday Human Trafficking: Hemispheric Reach, Local Intensity"


    Abstract: This chapter mines the geniza corpus to make two arguments about the medieval slave trade. First, the trade in slaves was decentralized: individual buyers organized the transregional trafficking of individuals as one part of a larger mixed cargo of commodities, and traded within their own personal mercantile and family networks. I contend that this decentralized trade was a primary method of human trafficking that historians have overlooked. A medieval Middle Passage never existed; rather, epochal warfare and famine caused temporary pulses in the supply of slaves.  Second, the center of gravity of the slave trade in Egypt was local, not transregional. Geniza and other contemporaneous sources show that many enslaved people changed owners several times during their lives and that sale was only one method by which Jews transferred enslaved property. Wedding dowries, gifts, and bequests were primary methods that households used to transfer enslaved people as both laborers and inter-generational wealth. Two additional claims emerge from these arguments. Though the slave trade to Egypt was transregional and included enslaved people from as far afield as India and Byzantium, the most intensively exploited regions for slave imports were Nubia and greater northeast Africa. A close reading of geniza documents alongside rabbinic writings also demonstrates the contingencies and ambiguities of racialization in the Middle Ages. All non-Muslim people outside Islamic territories were legally enslaveable. But Jewish sources reveal how Egyptians began to code “Black”-skinned people as “slaves” in their epistolary exchanges even though “Black” was not yet used as one of the many long-standing ethnic categories that scribes were required to note in bills of sale, such as Nubian, Byzantine, Indian, and Abyssinian.


    Friday, October 20 at 12pm EST

     

    Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga, Assistant Professor of History

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville


    "A Roman in Islamic Egypt: Memory and Identity in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu"


    The Chronicle of John of Nikiu, written in Coptic in the 7th century but surviving only in the form of a 17th-century Ge’ez translation of an Arabic intermediary, is often treated as an expression of an Egyptian identity rooted in miaphysite Christianity and some degree of antipathy towards and alienation from the Roman state. These readings are informed by a preconceived notion that there was a great degree of continuity between the Coptic church of the Early Islamic period and the Alexandrian church of the Roman empire, and a tacit belief that the Council of Chalcedon created an ideological rift between Alexandria and Constantinople. In this chapter, which will appear in my forthcoming book on the Chronicle, I argue that John of Nikiu’s text in fact reveals a historian who seemed to conceive of the historical Egypt as a core territory of the Roman empire by virtue of the province’s role in Christian history. Furthermore, he seems to view himself, and the Christians of Egypt, as in some way inextricably linked, even tacitly hinting that, should the government and church in Constantinople adopt an anti-Chalcedonian position, the Arab invasion of Egypt could be undone. The implication of this conclusion not only effects our understanding of the emergence of a distinct Coptic identity, but also challenges teleological notions of the inevitability of the long-term presence of Islamic hegemony over formerly Roman lands, which often pervade Islamic narrative sources, and which tend to inform modern scholarship on the subject.


    Friday, November 17 at 12pm EST


    Stacey Murrell, Ph.D. Candidate

    Brown University


    “Birthing Dynasties: Concubinage, Status, and Race in the Western Islamicate World, c.700-1000 CE.”


    Friday, December 8 at 12pm EST


    Denva Gallant, Assistant Professor of Art History

    Rice University


    “The Black Body as Site of Conversion: Race and Ethnicity in Late Medieval Italy."

  • 02 Aug 2023 3:48 PM | Thomas Barton (Administrator)

    CALL FOR PAPERS


    59th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, May 9-11, 2024


    Visigothic Legacies: New Ways of Bridging Pre- and Post-711


    (In person session; ID 5006)


    Sponsoring Organization: American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain

    (AARHMS)


    Organizer: Damián Fernández (dfernandez@niu.edu)


    This session will explore long-term continuities between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle

    Ages within the Iberian Peninsula. In what ways did Visigothic practices, institutions, and other

    legacies survive the Arab conquest and influence the mixed societies that took shape under

    both Muslim and Chris-an rule? We are especially interested in the appropriation and

    resignification of the past and the transmission of ancient texts and ideas and welcome

    proposals on papers dealing with any population(s) within the peninsula and any aspect(s) of

    this transition. We encourage work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries, handles

    non-traditional evidence, or employs novel methodologies.


    Please submit your name, affiliation and contact information; a 300-word abstract; and a

    short description (50 words) that may be made public through the Confex Proposal Portal

    (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi). The deadline for submission is September 15.


  • 13 Jul 2023 12:08 PM | Kyle C Lincoln (Administrator)

    CFP: Kalamazoo 2024

    Holy Iberians: Holy People and Hagiography in Medieval Iberia

    "As a major intellectual crossroads in the Medieval Latin West, the Iberian Peninsula has been recognized by scholars as a laboratory and marketplace for a comprehensive array of historical developments. This co-sponsored panel, offered by The American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain and the Hagiography Society, is designed to offer new contributions and perspectives about Hagiography from the Iberian Peninsula in order to help continue both organizations' efforts to add greater nuance to their respective interests and build lasting multidisciplinary relationships between scholars."

    Contact kyle.c.lincoln@gmail.com with a proposed abstract and author identifiers.


  • 09 May 2023 5:02 PM | Thomas Barton (Administrator)

    Call For Proposals:


    AARHMS-inspired panels on Western-Mediterranean Communities of Knowledge and Bodies in Motion at the MAA Meeting at Notre Dame (March 14-16, 2024).


    DUE DATE: 22 May 2023.


    AARHMS is interested in promoting two Western-Mediterranean sessions of three 20-minute papers each co-organized by Mohamad Ballan and Tom Barton for the upcoming Medieval Academy of America Meeting, which will be held at the University of Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute on March 14-16, 2024. 


    • The first session plans to engage with the theme of Communities of Knowledge by exploring how interfaith interaction both shaped and was conditioned by evolving, co-produced conceptions of sovereignty within the contexts of the later medieval Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. 


    • The second aims to investigate the theme of Bodies in Motion through the lens of the intersecting quotidian lives and rhythms of Christians, Jews, and Muslims cohabiting cities, towns, and their associated suburban districts within the later medieval Iberian Peninsula. 


    Proposals should include a title, 150-250-word abstract, and one-page CV and need to be received no later than 22 May 2023. Please send to Mohamad Ballan (mohamad.ballan@stonybrook.edu) and Tom Barton (barton@sandiego.edu).


    Please distribute widely.

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