On Thursday 26th January, at 19:30, in our Al-Andalus Chair session, we will have Manuel Garc\u00eda Fern\u00e1ndez, 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'.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n