The workshop brings together scholars from different scholarly and national communities, yet all working on the Medieval Iberian Peninsula. With this event, we hope to encourage stronger interaction between these groups. The workshop, therefore, has the goal to put various scientific communities into conversation, and to generate new synergies between different scholarly traditions. 25 participants from several disciplines of Medieval studies coming from ten different countries are promising a fruitful exchange about one of the most exciting European areas of the Middle Ages.

In addition to the individual presentations, four experts have been invited who will complement to this event by giving a workshop each. The four experts are (1) Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann, Professor for Latin Philology at the University of Zurich; (2) Susanne Wittekind, Professor of Art History at the University of Cologne; (3) Patrick Henriet, historian and Directeur d'études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris; and (4) Nikolas Jaspert, Professor for Medieval History at the University of Heidelberg.

Programm | Programme

Wed 10 Sept 2025

09.00-09.30    Introduction

Alexander Marx and Patrick Marschner

09.30-11.30    Workshop 1

Nikolas Jaspert | University of Heidelberg

11.30-12.00    coffee break

12.00-13.30    Session 1

Session 1. a: Literary Approaches and Textual Traditions

Moderator: Mats Pfeifer

Covadonga Baratech Soriano | Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales: Literary Sources for the Statistical Analysis of Andalusi Societies:
Possibilities and Limitations

Lukas Villegas-Aristizábal | Queen’s University Canada, London Campus:
Stoic and Islamic Influences in the Chronicle of the Conquest of Lisbon

Iason Thiele | University of Heidelberg / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris:
The Liber sermonum of Juan Gil de Zamora   

Session 1. b: Hagiographical Texts

Moderator: Matthias M. Tischler

Clara Renedo i Mirambell | University of Lleida:
Saint Vincent of Saragossa between the Iberian Peninsula and Gaul: Aimoin's Translatio sancti Vincentii

Constanze Albers| Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br.:
Hagiography in the Iberian Peninsula

Óscar Perdomo | Freie Universität Berlin 
Rethinking Anti-Jewish polemics in the Liber de variis quaestionibus adversus Iudaeos

13.30-15.00    lunch break 

15.00-17.00    Workshop 2

Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann | University of Zurich

17.00-17.30    coffee break

17.30-19.00    Session 2

Session 2. a: The Visigoths and the late eighth century

Moderator: Patrick Marschner

Cornelia Scherer | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg:
Orderly Orthodoxy: The Collectio Hispana in the Visigothic Kingdom

Gonzalo Landau Brenes | University of Hamburg:
Visigothic Violence: Narratives of Transgression

Sergi Tella Pamies | University of Lleida:
Locating Felix of Urgell during the Adoptionist Controversy: Insights on the Early Carolingian Presence in the Spanish March

Session 2. b: Heretics and Orthodoxy

Moderator: Nikolas Jaspert

Stefanie Lenk | University of Göttingen:
Using Material Evidence to Fight Heresy – Lucas of Tuy’s De altera vita on Orthodox Imagery

Thomas H. Kaal | Queen Mary University of London:
Racializing Religious Instruction? Pedro Jiménez de Prejano’s Lucero de la vida cristiana and Converso Religiosity

Isaac Lampurlanés i Farré | University of Lleida:
The Tortosa Disputation (1413-1414) and the De publicatione haeresum vanitatum et abusionum contentarum in libro Talmud by André Dias de Escobar (1417): Preliminary Findings of an Ongoing Critical Edition

19.00 Reception

Thurs 11 Sept 2025

09.00-11.00    Workshop 3

Patrick Henriet | École pratique des hautes études

11.00-11.30    coffee break

11.30-13.00    Session 3

Session 3. a: Interreligious Conflict and ‘Otherness’

Moderator: Patrick Marschner

Mats Pfeifer | University of Bamberg:
Pseudo-Methodius in the so-called “Códice de Roda” (Cod. 78) of the Biblioteca de la Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid

David De Pablo | University of Prague:
Emotions, Sins, and Legitimacy: Representations of Muslim Corporality in 13^th-Century Castilian Sources

Onuralp Çakır | Bilkent University, Ankara:
Representations of ‘Other’ in Medieval Mediterranean Maps

Session 3. b: Economic and Maritime History

Moderator: Eva Cersovsky

Elías Salgado Arcas | Universidad Complutense de Madrid:
Una cum uxore mea imperatrice domina rrica: An Essay on the Attribution of a Unique Conjugal Monetary Type of the Emperors Alfonso VII and Rica of Poland

Victòria Burguera i Puigserver | University of Heidelberg:
The Aftermath of Medieval Mediterranean Naval Campaigns. The Fate of Captives as Spoils of War

Laurin Herberich | University of Heidelberg:
Mediterranean Entanglements – Digital tools as Challenge and Chance for Medieval Iberian Studies?

13.00-15.00    lunch break 

15.00-17.00    Workshop 4

Susanne Wittekind | University of Cologne

17.00-17.30    coffee break

17.30-19.15    Session 4

Session 4. a: Political History between War and Peace

Moderator: Alexander Marx

Burton Westermeier | University of Yale:
Violence, Peace, and Negotiation in the Gesta Berengarii de Landoria

Daria Safronova | University of Tübingen:
Forging Consensus and Giving Advice in Northern Iberia, c. 900–1100

João Pedro Alves | NOVA University of Lisbon:
Knights and Justice – The Challenges of Studying Seigneurial Justice in Late Medieval Portugal: A Perspective on the Military Orders of Avis and Santiago

Glauber Wisniewski | Saint Louis University:
The Jews and the Military Orders in Aragon and Castile (12th-15th centuries)

Session 4. b: Materiality and Craftsmanship

Moderator: Laurin Herberich

Eva Cersovsky | University of Cologne:
Experiència, maestra de les coses. Craft Knowledge and Royal Courts in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon

Arianna Vignati | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid:
The Transfer of Models through the Circulation of Artists and Ideas in Tardogothic Hispanic Architecture (1450–1500)

Nieves Rico Parreño | University of Oviedo:
Comfort, Technique, and Status: An Analysis of Pillows, Their Morphology and Meaning in Hispanic Medieval Times

María Carrión Longarela | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela:
The convent of Santa Clara de Palencia in the 15^th and 16^th centuries. Material and architectural traces in a long-time inhabited setting

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