For lecture and discussion information, please see the “week by week” section under “Schedule”. For assignment information, please see the “requirements” section.
| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/5 | Introduction: Debating Medieval “Spain” | Review website | |
| 13/5 | Visigoths | #3-The Visigothic Conversion to Catholicism; #4-Visigothic Legislation Concerning the Jews | |
| 18/5 | Muslim Conquest and the Umayyad Caliphate | #6-Accounts of the Muslim Conquest; #9-Christian Resistance in the North; #14b-Ibn Hayyan, “Muqtabis” | |
| 20/5 | Christians and Jews in Al-Andalus | #11-A Christian Account of the Life of Muhammad; #12-Christians in Cordoba; #16-A Jewish Administrator under Caliph Hisham | Source Analysis due (May 21st) |
| 25/5 | Fragmentation | #18-Ibn Hazm, “The Ring of a Dove”; #20-”A Jewish Vizier describes the battle of Alfuente” | |
| 27/5 | Conquest, Crusade, and Frontier Society | #22-The Conquest of Toledo; #25-Exile of the Cid and his capture of Valencia; #27-Two Christian Urban Charters; #41-Hispano-Arabic Poetry | Proposal due (May 28th) |
| 1/6 | Conquest, Colonization, and Plural Society | #46-A Jewish Lament in the Wake of the Almohad Persecutions; #49-Three Charters from the Kingdom of Valencia; #58-Jewish Court Documents from Barcelona; #66-The Legal Status of Jews and Muslims in Castile | Post on Podcast “Convivencia” due. |
| 3/6 | Kingship in the 13th century | #56-Shipping in Barcelona; #59a-The King and the Cortes, “Rulings of the Cortes of Castile”; #62-The Proper Qualities of a King | |
| 8/6 | Plague, Famine, and Civil War | #71-The Evils of Money and Drink; #73-Memoirs of a Castilian Noblewoman | Post on Podcast “Reconquista” due. |
| 10/6 | Jews and Muslims in the 14th and 15th centuries | #78-Marriage and Divorce in Muslim Granada; #83-Muslims and Christians in Valencia; Additional reading “Inquisitors and Jewish/Converso Families in Girona” | |
| 15/6 | Fernando and Isabel: Granada and the Inquisition | #82-Heresy and Inquisition; #84-The Christian Conquest of Granada | |
| 17/6 | Fictionalizing Medieval Spain: The Lions of Al-Rassan | Guy Gavriel Kay, The Lions of al-Rassan | Post on Podcast “Unification and Conversion” due June 19th at midnight |
| 21/6 | Final Project Due | ||