Attend: Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy in Iberia and North Africa (600-1600)
The Center of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University in conjunction with the Medieval Iberia and North Africa Group at the University of Chicago present “Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy in Iberia and North Africa (600-1600),” to be held on 19-21 June 2017 at Saint Louis University during the 5th Annual Symposium of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The aim of this event is to build on recent scholarship which has sought to move beyond notions of “the state” as a mode of inquiry in Iberian and North African studies, and to promote instead a more holistic, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the politics, cultural production, and religious practices of these regions. Toward that end, this event will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines in order to facilitate conversations about the relationships between politics, historiography, art, literature, and religion in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa.
Registration: http://smrs.slu.edu/register.html
Program:
Monday, June 19
4:30-6:00
Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy Session I: Keynote
Conversion, Lineage, and Legitimacy in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
Tuesday, June 20
10:45-12:15
Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy Session II: Authority and the Law
Chair: Miguel Martínez, University of Chicago
Apostasy, Infamy, and Authority in the Thirteenth-Century Conquest of Majorca
Ariana Myers, Princeton University
Contending Views of Law, Authority, and Legitimacy in Medieval Aragon
Belen Vicens, University of Notre Dame
The Jurist, the Pope, and the Chronicler: Spanish Pretensions to Empire in Africa (15th & 16th centuries)
Andrew Devereux, Loyola Marymount University
2:15-3:45
Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy Session III: Iberian Kingship
Chair: David Cantor-Echols, University of Chicago
Loyalty, Lineage, and Legitimacy in the Iberian Missa pro Rege
Edward Holt, Saint Louis University
Constructing narratives of legitimacy: A Study of the Historia novelada de Alejandro Magno
Priya Ananth, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dynastic Affairs in the Decorative Program of Miraflores
Jessica Weiss, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Wednesday, June 21
10:45-12:15
Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy Session IV: Taifa Periods
Chair: Mohamad Ballan, University of Chicago
Identity and Legitimacy in Eleventh-Century al-Andalus: the Case of ‘Alī b. Mujāhid and the:Taifa of Denia
Travis Bruce, McGill University
Genealogies of Power in 12th Century Al-Andalus
Abigail Krasner Balbale, Bard Graduate Center
The Once and Future Amir: The Banu Hud, Murcia, and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Third Taifa Period (1228-1243)
Anthony Minnema, Samford University
2:15-3:45
Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy Session V: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim contexts
Chair: Edward Holt, Saint Louis University
Three-and-a-half Saints: Memorialization of twelfth and thirteenth century Bishops in their dioceses in the Kingdom of Castile
Kyle Lincoln, Kalamazoo College
Murder and Host Desecration: The Battle for Political Dominance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona
Alana Lord, University of Florida
The Marinid Madrasas: Symbols of Faith and Power
Mohamed Lakhdar Oulmi, University of Guelma
4:30-6:00
Lineage, Loyalty, and Legitimacy Session VI: Keynote
The legitimacy of James I in Montpellier and its literary consequences
Damian Smith, Saint Louis University
This event was made possible by the generous support of the Saint Louis University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Medieval Iberia and North Africa Group at the University of Chicago, the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, and the American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain.