"Andalusia has always been a frontier land. A frontier understood today more as the cultural osmosis of reciprocal influences and less as the supposedly violent sphere of opposing civilisations". This is the premise from which Manuel García FernándezProfessor of Medieval History at the University of Seville and full member of the Andalusian Academy of Regional Sciences, to support his thesis on the coexistence between Muslims and Christians on the Granada frontier during three centuries (from the 13th to the 16th).
As the professor himself explains, "The frontier of Granada would progressively define the territorial structures of Andalusia in the late Castilian Middle Ages from the 13th to the 16th centuries. But beyond the line or the physical boundary of state separation, an unofficial, polyvalent and complex society, outside the central powers of the kingdom of Castile and the Nasrid sultanate, would develop in the Andalusian and Granada frontier from one side to the other. In it, positive otherness would be justified as the necessary coexistence between Christians and Muslims, one of the fundamental characteristics of the Andalusian and Granada territory, in periods of truces and above all in the multiple neighbourly, cultural and commercial contacts. Institutions of power and regional government ordered the development of these activities, which were often complementary for the survival of the neighbouring frontiers. This would project throughout Europe the image of a peculiar and different Andalusia, even in spite of the Christian conquest and its supposed "Castilianisation".
This new session of the Chair al-Andalus, entitled Positive Otherness on the Granada Frontier, 13th-16th Centuries'.will take place on Thursday 23 January 2025 at 19.00 h. at the headquarters of the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo.
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