The antagonism between the military orders and Muslims on the battlefield is a subject that has been extensively developed in historiography. However, the relationships established between these institutions and Muslims outside the battlefield have not yet received the attention they deserve despite their importance and because of their complexity. The aim of my contribution to the IEM seminar is to present some of my research project results, with the purpose of correcting this gap. The results presented show how the military orders and their members came into regular contact with Muslims, either because they lived on their lands, or because they were servants in their houses and productive centres. Although we are still far from fully understanding these dynamics, there is no doubt that these relationships raise new questions about the functioning of military orders in the Peninsular Middle Ages.

Biographical note
Since October 2018, Clara Almagro Vidal has been a researcher at the Historisches Seminar de la Goethe Universität-Frankfurt am Main. From June 2017 to October 2018, she was a postdoctoral researcher at CIDEHUS-University of Évora. She obtained an international PhD (University of Granada, 2012), with a thesis entitled Frontera, environmental and spatial organisation: from the Guadiana basin to the Sierra Morena (Middle Ages), which received the qualification apt cum laude and received an Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the University of Granada. She has carried out research at the universities of Siena, La Tuscia, Constanza, Cambridge and Évora resulting in the publication of articles and chapters on medieval landscape analysis, religious minorities and the history of military orders in the Middle Ages. For six years, Vidal was part of a research team dedicated to extracting information from the nobility files of the Royal Chancellery Archives of Granada, participating in the publication of four books, and her first monograph, Paisajes Medievales en el Campo de Calatrava, was published in 2016.