On Thursday 26th January, at 19:30, in our Al-Andalus Chair session, we will have Manuel García Fernández, Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Department of Medieval History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques of the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Seville, and his lecture 'The mythification of the frontier of Granada, 13th-15th centuries'.
From the 13th to the 15th centuries, Christian Andalusia in the Guadalquivir valley was the extraordinary setting for a frontier with the ancient Nasrid Kingdom of Granada as heir to the civilisation of Al-Andalus. This fortified line of supposed official separation between theoretically antagonistic civilisations was, at the same time, an area of cultural osmosis of reciprocal influences. A frontier that would begin to be idealised and even mythologised by broad sectors of the dominant Christian society as a noble and chivalrous way of life in Andalusia, precisely when Granada at the end of the 15th century was already showing the first signs of its decline and political exhaustion.
Lecturer:
He is currently Professor of Medieval History and Director of the Department of Medieval History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques of the Faculty of Geography and History at the University of Seville.
She teaches Medieval History on the Bachelor's Degree in History, Bachelor's Degree in
History, Bachelor's Degree in Art History and Master's Degree in Comparative Historical Studies in the
Faculty of Geography and History. Also in the Degree in East Asian Studies at the Centro Internacional de Andalucía Tech of the University of Seville.
To attend the conference you need to register in advance at this link.
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