Seminar in Medieval Studies: “Notas para el estudio de una comunidad invisible. Cristianos andalusíes en Huesca (ss. VIII-XII)” – Rodrigo Moreno (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
09.02.2022 | 16:00
Room 209, Colégio Almada Negreiros, Lisbon
Zoom session
This paper will trace the existing vestiges of the community of Andalusian Christians in the city of Huesca (Spain). This group has been completely invisible in the written sources, both Arabic and Latin, and the material record does not help to reconstruct its history. A model of study will be proposed here, in which not only the possibility of the existence of the community of Christians in the Andalusian Huesca will be resolved, but also their political, social and religious organization will be reconstructed, with a special attention to the analysis of the places of worship they had in the city. On the other hand, it will be presented how this model is not only applicable in Huesca, but also in other places of al-Andalus.
About the speaker:
Currently, she enjoys a pre-doctoral contact at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), funded by the research project Virtual Spaces of Alterity. She is working on her doctoral thesis, directed by Tomás Cordero (IEM | NOVA FCSH) and Marisa Bueno (UCM). Her research focuses on the contacts between Christians and Muslims in al-Andalus, focusing especially on the expression and material consequence of these relationships. In the case of the Spanish city of Toledo, he has published two papers on the problem of decontextualized epigraphs from the Visigothic period and their use, in an attempt to define which were the meeting places of the Andalusian Christians. He is also a member of the UCM Research Group Mucrishis: Christians and Muslims in the Hispanic Middle Ages.