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HIST 405-02, Christians, Muslims, and Jews in Medieval Spain, Spring 2009
Novikoff, Alex
Novikoff, Alex
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Abstract
This course investigates the roughly 750 years of coexistence between
Christians, Muslims, and Jews on the Iberian peninsula, from the Muslim arrival in 711
to the end of the Christian reconquest in 1492. Readings from primary sources in
translation from all three communities will consider the artistic and intellectual
achievements of the era as well as the intricate political history of Spain’s many different
kingdoms. Special attention will be given to the complex nature of interfaith relations, the
sustained communication and commercial exchanges between the various groups and
their periodical breakdown into violence. This course’s status as a 400-level senior
seminar means that at least as much emphasis will be placed on the analysis and
interpretation of documents as on the gaining of factual information (although clearly the
latter is a prerequisite for the former). Preparedness for discussion is therefore essential.
It is hoped that by the end of the class you will have a good understanding of the major
historical developments that shaped and gave rise to the country now known as Spain and
that you will be familiar with some of the historiographic debates that have surrounded,
and continue to surround, the study of medieval Spain.
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