University of Colorado Boulder - Coexistence in Medieval Spain: Jews, Christians, and Muslims 

Welcome to the Course!

REQUIRED CORE: An Introduction to Medieval Spain: Part 1 - Welcome to our Investigation

REQUIRED CORE: An Introduction to Medieval Spain: Part 2 - It is a Journey and Conversation

REQUIRED CORE: Convivencia (Coexistence) in Medieval Spain

REQUIRED CORE: Roman Hispania (201 BCE ? 418 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Visigothic Spain (418 ? 711 CE)

What type of student are you? Casual Observer. Interested Learner. Engaged Investigator.

Are you a "Casual Observer"?

Are you an "Interested Learner"?

Are you an "Engaged Investigator"?

Course Organization: Five Sections

Course Syllabus

Choosing Course Content Based on Your Student Profile: Required Core, Supplemental, Optional, and Honors Track

Course Assessments

Why Choose the Honors Track?

Collaborators and Funders

REQUIRED CORE: Why study medieval Spain? Viewing our modern challenges through the lens of the past.

REQUIRED CORE: What is coexistence (convivencia)? It is positive, negative, and ambivalent.

SUPPLEMENTAL: Defining Who are "Us" and Who are "Them"? Friend or Foe?

SUPPLEMENTAL: Medieval Christian Perspectives of Jews and Muslims

SUPPLEMENTAL: Medieval Jewish Perspectives of Christians and Muslims

SUPPLEMENTAL: Medieval Muslim Perspectives of Jews and Christians

REQUIRED CORE: Roman Hispania (201 BCE to 418 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Rome and the Visigoths

REQUIRED CORE: The Visigoths: New Lords of the Land (5th-7th Centuries CE)

OPTIONAL: Visigothic Religion and the Laity (the People)

OPTIONAL: The Formation of Medieval Europe

OPTIONAL: Byzantium: The Eastern Roman Empire

OPTIONAL: Europe's Sibling, the Islamic World

Overview of The Historian's Craft

The Historian's Craft: The Task of Viewing

Professor Martinez's Viewing Worksheet

Key Concept: What is Historiography?

Key Concept: What is Periodization?

What type of learner are you?

REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to Coexistence

REQUIRED CORE: Roman and Visigothic Hispania

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Conquest and Settlement (711 ? 756 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic al-Andalus: The Umayyad Dynasty (756 ? 1061 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo) - Welcome to the Museum

REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo): Islamic Art and Architecture - Part 1

REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo): Islamic Art and Architecture - Part 2

REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo): Islamic Art and Architecture - Part 3

SUPPLEMENTAL: Museo de Burgos: Muslim Artifacts Become Christian (11th Century CE)

OPTIONAL: Contemporary Sephardic Authors: A visit with Esther Bendahan at the Centro Sefarad Israel (Madrid)

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Conquest of Visigothic Spain (711 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Christian Traitors: Count Julian of Ceuta and the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754

REQUIRED CORE: Al-Andalus: Islamic Spain (711-1061 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Taifa Kingdoms (1009-1091), Almoravids (1086-1145), and Almohads (1145-1269)

REQUIRED CORE: Muslim Berbers Treated as Second-Class Citizens in Islamic Lands (8th Century CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Charlemagne, Abd al-Rahman I, and the Siege of the City of Zaragoza (787 and 789 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: The Christian "Martyrs" (or Agitators?) of Islamic Cordoba (850-859 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Astronomical Pursuits: Navigation and Religion

SUPPLEMENTAL: Islamic Water and Food Revolution in Iberia

SUPPLEMENTAL: Islamic Medicine during the Caliphate of Cordoba

OPTIONAL: A Closer Look: The Islamic Taifa of Toledo (1009 - 1085 CE)

OPTIONAL: Religious and Cultural Competition Among Islamic Taifas

REQUIRED CORE: Sefarad: Jewish Spain (A selection from Prof. Jane Gerber)

REQUIRED CORE: Rejecting Tolerance: Ibn Tumart, the Almohads, and Maimonides in the 12th Century

The Historian's Craft: The Task of Reading

"In the Name of God": The First Islamic Coinage in Spain (711-712 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Conquest of Visigothic Hispania

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Al-Andalus

REQUIRED CORE: Sefarad: Jewish Spain

REQUIRED CORE: Resurgent Christian Kingdoms (711 ? 1212 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Burgos: The Urn of St. Dominic (12th Century CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Burgos: The Virgin of the Battles (13th Century CE)

SUPPLEMENTAL: Museo de Burgos: Christian Funerary Statues (13th-15th Centuries CE)

OPTIONAL: ?Petrifying Wealth: The Southern European Shift to Collective Investment in Masonry as Identity, c.1050-1300? project at CSIC

REQUIRED CORE: The Christian Kingdom of Castile and the Origins of the Reconquest (711 - 1212 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Medieval Spain and the Influence of the Crusades on the Reconquista

REQUIRED CORE: Bitter Rivals: King Fernando I of Castile and King Bermudo III of Leon (11th Century)

REQUIRED CORE: Mozarabs of Toledo: Christians Who Assumed Islamic Culture (11th Century)

SUPPLEMENTAL: The Christian Kingdom of Aragon and Catalonia (711-1212 CE)

OPTIONAL: Saint James and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela

REQUIRED CORE: Castilian King Alfonso X "The Wise" (r. 1252-1284 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Simon R. Doubleday's Chapter 3: Stargazers from "The Wise King"

REQUIRED CORE: King Alfonso X's Las Siete Partidas: A Legal Code for Three Religions

REQUIRED CORE: Christians Governing Jews and Muslims: The Legalities of Coexistence

REQUIRED CORE: Las Cantigas de Santa Maria (The Canticles of Holy Mary) 1252-1284 CE

REQUIRED CORE: Forcing the Issue: The Christian-Jewish Disputation of Barcelona (1263 CE): Has the Messiah Appeared?

SUPPLEMENTAL: Todros Abulafia: A 13th Century Jewish Poet Fond of Debate

OPTIONAL: King Alfonso X and the Development of Spanish Universities

The Historian's Craft: The Task of Analyzing

Las Siete Partidas ? Selection Pertaining to Jews, Muslims, and Christians

REQUIRED CORE: Making Christian Hispania

REQUIRED CORE: King Alfonso X "The Wise" and Jewish Communities Under Christian Rule

REQUIRED CORE: Castilians Creating Culture through Objects

REQUIRED CORE: Catholic Spain and the Nasrids (1212 ? 1502 CE)

OPTIONAL: Museo de Burgos: Jewish Artifacts from Briviesca - Part 1

OPTIONAL: Museo de Burgos: Jewish Artifacts from Briviesca - Part 2

REQUIRED CORE: Treasures of the Archive of the Cathedral of Burgos

REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to the Archivo Municipal de Toledo and Its "Secret Archive"

SUPPLEMENTAL: Introduction to the Municipal Archive of Burgos

SUPPLEMENTAL: Exploring Manuscript SJ-1/1 ?Alfonso VI concede al Monasterio?

OPTIONAL: Introduction to the Archivo Historico de la Nobleza (Toledo)

OPTIONAL: Exploring the Restoration of ?Cartulario S. XV. Libro viejo de privilegios de los Reyes Catolicos, LI-385"

REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to Virtual Plasencia: A 15th Century Community of Jews, Christians, and Muslims

REQUIRED CORE: Digital Video Narration of ?La Mota?: A Christian Assumes Ownership over Jewish Homes, circa 1416, in Plasencia, Spain

REQUIRED CORE: El Transito Synagogue of Toledo (Museo Sefardí) - 14th Century CE

SUPPLEMENTAL: Christians Creating "Mudejar" Material Culture

Video Snippet #1 from Convivencia Re-envisioned - Texas Early Music Project - 6 September 2015

Video Snippet #2 from Convivencia Re-envisioned - Texas Early Music Project - 6 September 2015

REQUIRED CORE: Unforeseen Events: The Plague, A Dead King, and Anti-Jewish Sentiment (14th Century CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Civil War in the Kingdom of Castile and Leon (14th Century)

REQUIRED CORE: The New Nobility of Castile: Arrival of the Conversos (Jewish Converts to Christianity) (End of the 14th Century CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Anti-Jewish Pogroms Across Christian Spain (1390s - 1420s CE)

REQUIRED CORE: Christian Unity Under Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand (Late 15th Century CE)

REQUIRED CORE: The Nasrids: The Last Islamic Kingdom in Granada (1231-1492) CE

SUPPLEMENTAL: Islamic Nasrid Textiles

SUPPLEMENTAL: Jewish Love and Marriage in Christian Spain

REQUIRED CORE: Exploring Archives that Preserve History

REQUIRED READING: Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa Maria Family in Early Modern Spain

SUPPLEMENTAL: Exploring the Global Middle Ages

SUPPLEMENTAL: Mudéjar Metalwork: When the Islamic Becomes Christian (15th Century)

SUPPLEMENTAL: Christians Adopting Islamic Forms: Harmony in Islamic-Christian Manises Ceramics

REQUIRED CORE: Cultural Backlash: "Blood Purity" Laws: Separating "New" from "Old" Christians (1450s)

REQUIRED CORE: The Spanish Inquisition Begins its Work (1478 - 1480 CE)

REQUIRED CORE: The Spanish Tisha B'Av: The End of Jewish Spain and the Expulsion (1492)

REQUIRED CORE: Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand Expel Spanish Muslims (1502 CE)

The Texas Early Music Project: A Collaborator of Deciphering Secrets MOOCs

Musical Selection: De Antequera Sale un Moro (From Antequera leaves a Moor)

The Historian's Craft: The Task of Reflecting

REQUIRED CORE: Formation of Catholic Spain and Its Impact on Religious Minorities

REQUIRED CORE: Creating Conversos at the End of Positive Coexistence

Thank you for Participating! Hope to See You Again!

Applying the Historian's Craft

Assessing an Artifact: Overview of the Peer Review Project

Artifact #1 (Material Culture): Plate with the Arms of Blanche of Navarre

Artifact #2 (Manuscript): The Edict of Expulsion (1492)

Artifact #3 (Music): Una tarde de verano (A summer afternoon)

Artifact #4 (Architecture and Material Culture): "A Poem is a Robe and a Castle: Inscribing Verses on Textiles and Architecture in the Alhambra"