Christian, Jew, Muslim: Coexistence in Medieval Spain
The convivencia, or coexistence, among three religious groups of the Iberian peninsula. How two twelfth-century accounts, Cantar de mio Cid (The Poem of the Cid) and Historia Roderici, depicted the Christian general Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, or El Cid, who led armies of Muslims and Christians. Conversos--Jews who converted to Christianity--and the effect of the 1492 expulsion of the Jews in Fernando de Rojas's prose dialogue Celestina. Al Andalus's (Islamic Spain's) rich culture, including the poems of the thirteenth-century Sufi writers Abu Hassan al-Shustari and Ibn al-Arabi.
Program 190
Participants
Lourdes Alvarez Matthew Bailey Michael Gerli
