The international workshop "Crossing the Divide? Experiences of Conversion in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Era" will take place on November 6 and 7, at the University of Évora.
Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros (Universidade de Évora-CIDEHUS)
Francisco Díaz Marcilla (IEM-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Clara Almagro Vidal (Goethe Universität Frankfurt-am-Main)
PROGRAMME
DAY 01 | 6 NOVEMBER 2019 | ROOM 242 |
9:30AM - 10AM | WELCOME AND DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIALS
10:00AM – 11:00AM | OFFICIAL INAUGURATION AND AND SESSION 1
Conversion as Political Tool in the Late Middle Ages: Models and Comparison | Francisco Díaz Marcilla (IEM-Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
11:00AM - 11:30AM | COFFEE BREAK
The Meaning of Conversion in Eleventh-Century Hungary | Nora Berend (University of Cambridge)
Between Conviction and Life Improvement: Muslim and Christian Captive Conversions in the Western Medieval Mediterranean | Roser Salicrú (IMF CSIC)
11:30AM – 1:00PM | SESSION 2
1:00PM – 3PM | LUNCH
3PM – 4:30PM | SESSION 3
A Mindful Conversion. The Relevance of Books in Hernando de Talavera’s Strategies for Evangelization | Davide Scotto (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Converted, Convicted, Convincing. Converted Jews in the Iberian Peninsula and the Cristãos-Novos “Mirror” during the Early Modern Age | José Alberto Tavim (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa)
4:30PM – 5PM | COFFEE BREAK
5PM – 6:30PM | SESSION 4
From the Aljama to the Convent: the Family of Doña Fatima in Medieval Toledo | Ana Echevarria Arsuaga (UNED)
“Dogs, renegades and tornadiços”: Jews and Muslim Converts in Medieval Portugal | Filomena Barros (Universidade de Évora/CIDEHUS)
DAY 02 | 7 NOVEMBER 2019 | SALA DOS DOCENTES
9:30AM – 11AM | SESSION 5
Al-Andalus: Islamic conquest and conversion to Islam (8th – 11th centuries) | Jesús Lorenzo (Universidad del País Vasco/Gerda Henkel Project)
For the Expansion of Christianity? Military Orders and the Conversion of Muslims in the Medieval Iberian Peninsula | Clara Almagro Vidal (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
11AM – 11:30AM | COFFEE BREAK
11:30AM – 1:00PM | SESSION 6
Early Islamic Perceptions of Maternal Agency in Moments of Conflicting Religious Sentiment | Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa)
“Settling Accounts with the Family in the Aftermath of Conversion (Jews of Rome, early 17th Century)” | Isabelle Poutrin (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
1:00PM | CONCLUSION OF THE WORKSHOP