Об этом курсе: This course explores Jewish, Christian, and Muslim intercultural relations in Iberia from the Visigothic era (6th century CE) until the creation of Queen Isabel I and King Ferdinand II Catholic Spain (late 15th century). We evaluate the many identities of the peninsula known as Christian Hispania, Jewish Sefarad, and Islamic al-Andalus. We trace the origins and trajectory of conflict between these communities (the Muslim conquest of Spain, Christian Reconquista, prohibitions blocking intermixing of peoples, and expulsions). We aim to understand conflicts within communities as well, such as the tensions between Christian Arian Visigoths and native Catholic Iberians or the fundamentalist North African Almohad Dynasty that rejected the Spanish Umayyad Caliphate’s preference for religious tolerance. We delve into an appreciation of collaboration and coexistence among these communities. We explore the unique role of the Jewish community who Muslims and Christians depended upon as political and cultural intermediaries as well as their intellectual collaborators. We find the history of how peoples attempted to create and manage viable diverse communities. As we study this history, the Honors Track will employ an investigative process (“The Historian’s Craft”) that involves viewing, reading, analyzing, and reflecting on events, peoples, places, and artifacts.
Для кого этот курс: What type of student are you? Casual observer. Interested learner. Engaged investigator. When I first began studying the history of medieval Spain -- almost thirty-years ago as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin -- it was just a topic that I was curious about. That changed. Garrison Hall and its History Department became a gateway to a new way of viewing our world. The history of coexistence in medieval Spain shaped the rest of my life, first as an undergraduate (1988-1992) and later as a doctoral candidate (2002-2008), and I believe it might do the same for you. Medieval Spain is one of these places that invites your curiosity to the get the best of you! What I'd you to do as you start this course during Week 1 is to ask yourself a few questions so that you can maximize your enjoyment of the course. The questions you will ask are: Why are you interested in medieval Spain and its history of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interrelations? What do you hope to learn from this course? How do you learn and what types of information are most meaningful to you? How much time and effort do you want to dedicate to this course? After completing the course, do you think you will want to study more about Spain and its history ? These questions and your responses will help determine what type of student are you. Remember: There is no ideal type of student. Find what works best for you!
Автор: University of Colorado System
Преподаватели: Dr. Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila, Associate Professor
History
| Уровень | Начинающий |
| Выполнение | Weekly: 1.5 hrs (Casual Observers), 3 hrs (Interested Learners), 5 hrs (Experienced Investigators) |
| Язык | English |
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НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Introduction to Medieval Spain and Coexistence (418-711 CE)
This week introduces the idea of co-existence in medieval Spain. We begin our study of medieval Spain by briefly viewing Roman Spain and then learning about the Visigoths. Supplemental information places medieval Iberia within the contexts of European, Byzantine, and Islamic civilizations. The honors section of the course introduces "The Historian's Craft" and the task of "viewing".
6 видео, 28 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 тренировочный тест
- Reading: What type of student are you? Casual Observer. Interested Learner. Engaged Investigator.
- Reading: Are you a "Casual Observer"?
- Reading: Are you an "Interested Learner"?
- Reading: Are you an "Engaged Investigator"?
- Тренировочный тест: What type of learner are you?
- Discussion Prompt: What type of learner are you?
- Reading: Course Organization: Five Sections
- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Reading: Choosing Course Content Based on Your Student Profile: Required Core, Supplemental, Optional, and Honors Track
- Reading: Course Assessments
- Reading: Why Choose the Honors Track?
- Reading: Collaborators and Funders
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: An Introduction to Medieval Spain: Part 1 - Welcome to our Investigation
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: An Introduction to Medieval Spain: Part 2 - It is a Journey and Conversation
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Convivencia (Coexistence) in Medieval Spain
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Why study medieval Spain? Viewing our modern challenges through the lens of the past.
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: What is coexistence (convivencia)? It is positive, negative, and ambivalent.
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Defining Who are "Us" and Who are "Them"? Friend or Foe?
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Medieval Christian Perspectives of Jews and Muslims
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Medieval Jewish Perspectives of Christians and Muslims
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Medieval Muslim Perspectives of Jews and Christians
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Roman Hispania (201 BCE – 418 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Roman Hispania (201 BCE to 418 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Rome and the Visigoths
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Visigothic Spain (418 – 711 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The Visigoths: New Lords of the Land (5th-7th Centuries CE)
- Reading: OPTIONAL: Visigothic Religion and the Laity (the People)
- Reading: OPTIONAL: The Formation of Medieval Europe
- Reading: OPTIONAL: Byzantium: The Eastern Roman Empire
- Reading: OPTIONAL: Europe's Sibling, the Islamic World
- Discussion Prompt: OPTIONAL: Which civilization is most fascinating?
- Reading: Overview of The Historian's Craft
- Reading: The Historian's Craft: The Task of Viewing
- Reading: Professor Martinez's Viewing Worksheet
- Discussion Prompt: What are your blind spots and biases?
- Reading: Key Concept: What is Historiography?
- Reading: Key Concept: What is Periodization?
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to Coexistence
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Roman and Visigothic Hispania
Оцениваемый: Practicing the Historian's Craft: "Viewing"
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
DEVELOPING DYNAMIC CULTURES: ISLAMIC AL-ANDALUS AND JEWISH SEFARAD (711-1212 CE)
In this section of the course, we advance our investigation of medieval Spain to learn about Islamic al-Andalus (Islamic Spain) and Jewish Sefarad (Jewish Spain). This includes a study of the Islamic conquest of Visigothic Spain and the subsequent development of the Umayyad Dynasty. We evaluate the complexities of conflicts between religious groups and within religious groups. We witness interfaith collaboration. Islamic sciences are presented as is the Golden Age of the Spanish Jews. We view Islamic art and architecture. Lastly, in our honors section we continue with our study of the Historian's Craft and the task of "reading".
8 видео, 16 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Conquest of Visigothic Spain (711 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Christian Traitors: Count Julian of Ceuta and the Mozarabic Chronicle of 754
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Islamic al-Andalus: The Umayyad Dynasty (756 – 1061 CE)
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo) - Welcome to the Museum
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo): Islamic Art and Architecture - Part 1
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo): Islamic Art and Architecture - Part 2
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Santa Cruz (Toledo): Islamic Art and Architecture - Part 3
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Al-Andalus: Islamic Spain (711-1061 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Taifa Kingdoms (1009-1091), Almoravids (1086-1145), and Almohads (1145-1269)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Muslim Berbers Treated as Second-Class Citizens in Islamic Lands (8th Century CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Charlemagne, Abd al-Rahman I, and the Siege of the City of Zaragoza (787 and 789 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The Christian "Martyrs" (or Agitators?) of Islamic Cordoba (850-859 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Astronomical Pursuits: Navigation and Religion
- Видео: SUPPLEMENTAL: Museo de Burgos: Muslim Artifacts Become Christian (11th Century CE)
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Islamic Water and Food Revolution in Iberia
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Islamic Medicine during the Caliphate of Cordoba
- Reading: OPTIONAL: A Closer Look: The Islamic Taifa of Toledo (1009 - 1085 CE)
- Reading: OPTIONAL: Religious and Cultural Competition Among Islamic Taifas
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Sefarad: Jewish Spain (A selection from Prof. Jane Gerber)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Rejecting Tolerance: Ibn Tumart, the Almohads, and Maimonides in the 12th Century
- Discussion Prompt: REQUIRED CORE: Integrating Jews in Islamic Spain
- Видео: OPTIONAL: Contemporary Sephardic Authors: A visit with Esther Bendahan at the Centro Sefarad Israel (Madrid)
- Reading: The Historian's Craft: The Task of Reading
- Reading: "In the Name of God": The First Islamic Coinage in Spain (711-712 CE)
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Conquest of Visigothic Hispania
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Al-Andalus
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Sefarad: Jewish Spain
Оцениваемый: Practicing the Historian's Craft: "Reading"
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Forging A Christian Future: Christian Spain (711-1212 CE) and the Castilian Ascent In Spain (1212-1347 CE)
First, we continue with an investigation of the third principal culture of Iberian Peninsula -- Spanish Christian Hispania. We seek out more specific examples of the Christian kingdom's impact on political, religious, social, intellectual, and economic issues. Next, we examine the rise of the Spanish Christian Kingdom of Castile and Leon and the impact of King Alfonso X "The Learned". We study how Spanish Christians created culture through material objects and architecture. In addition, we explore the complications of Christians governing religious minorities in their lands. The honors section of the course continues with our study of the Historian's Craft and the task of "analyzing".
5 видео, 16 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The Christian Kingdom of Castile and the Origins of the Reconquest (711 - 1212 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Medieval Spain and the Influence of the Crusades on the Reconquista
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Bitter Rivals: King Fernando I of Castile and King Bermudo III of Leon (11th Century)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Mozarabs of Toledo: Christians Who Assumed Islamic Culture (11th Century)
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: The Christian Kingdom of Aragon and Catalonia (711-1212 CE)
- Reading: OPTIONAL: Saint James and the Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Castilian King Alfonso X "The Wise" (r. 1252-1284 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Simon R. Doubleday's Chapter 3: Stargazers from "The Wise King"
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: King Alfonso X's Las Siete Partidas: A Legal Code for Three Religions
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Christians Governing Jews and Muslims: The Legalities of Coexistence
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Las Cantigas de Santa Maria (The Canticles of Holy Mary) 1252-1284 CE
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Forcing the Issue: The Christian-Jewish Disputation of Barcelona (1263 CE): Has the Messiah Appeared?
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Todros Abulafia: A 13th Century Jewish Poet Fond of Debate
- Reading: OPTIONAL: King Alfonso X and the Development of Spanish Universities
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Burgos: The Urn of St. Dominic (12th Century CE)
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Museo de Burgos: The Virgin of the Battles (13th Century CE)
- Видео: SUPPLEMENTAL: Museo de Burgos: Christian Funerary Statues (13th-15th Centuries CE)
- Видео: OPTIONAL: “Petrifying Wealth: The Southern European Shift to Collective Investment in Masonry as Identity, c.1050-1300” project at CSIC
- Reading: The Historian's Craft: The Task of Analyzing
- Reading: Las Siete Partidas – Selection Pertaining to Jews, Muslims, and Christians
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Making Christian Hispania
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: King Alfonso X "The Wise" and Jewish Communities Under Christian Rule
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Castilians Creating Culture through Objects
Оцениваемый: Practicing the Historian's Craft: "Analyzing"
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
Creating Conversos and Rejecting Religious Diversity: Catholic Spain (1347-1502 CE)
This section of the course presents the end of coexistence in medieval Spain, which was characterized by the creation of new types of peoples (conversos, Jewish converts to Christianity), religious intolerance and expulsions. Multiple examples of the fluctuations in the relationships of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, are examined as Catholic Spain took shape. Special attention is also directed to Spanish archives that preserve this history. We take a closer look at the end of convivencia in the city of Plasencia, Spain, and view a digital video narration. As the Spanish Middle Ages did not occur in a vacuum, we share with you eight scholarly endeavors from the "Global Middle Ages" Project. The honors section of the course continues with our study of the Historian's Craft and the task of "reflecting" and features the music of the Texas Early Music Project.
15 видео, 20 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Unforeseen Events: The Plague, A Dead King, and Anti-Jewish Sentiment (14th Century CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Civil War in the Kingdom of Castile and Leon (14th Century)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The New Nobility of Castile: Arrival of the Conversos (Jewish Converts to Christianity) (End of the 14th Century CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Anti-Jewish Pogroms Across Christian Spain (1390s - 1420s CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Christian Unity Under Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand (Late 15th Century CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The Nasrids: The Last Islamic Kingdom in Granada (1231-1492) CE
- Видео: OPTIONAL: Museo de Burgos: Jewish Artifacts from Briviesca - Part 1
- Видео: OPTIONAL: Museo de Burgos: Jewish Artifacts from Briviesca - Part 2
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Islamic Nasrid Textiles
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Jewish Love and Marriage in Christian Spain
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Exploring Archives that Preserve History
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Treasures of the Archive of the Cathedral of Burgos
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to the Archivo Municipal de Toledo and Its "Secret Archive"
- Discussion Prompt: What aspects of the archives in Toledo and Burgos did you find most interesting?
- Видео: SUPPLEMENTAL: Introduction to the Municipal Archive of Burgos
- Видео: SUPPLEMENTAL: Exploring Manuscript SJ-1/1 “Alfonso VI concede al Monasterio”
- Видео: OPTIONAL: Introduction to the Archivo Historico de la Nobleza (Toledo)
- Видео: OPTIONAL: Exploring the Restoration of “Cartulario S. XV. Libro viejo de privilegios de los Reyes Catolicos, LI-385"
- Reading: REQUIRED READING: Creating Conversos: The Carvajal-Santa Maria Family in Early Modern Spain
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to Virtual Plasencia: A 15th Century Community of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: Digital Video Narration of “La Mota”: A Christian Assumes Ownership over Jewish Homes, circa 1416, in Plasencia, Spain
- Видео: REQUIRED CORE: El Transito Synagogue of Toledo (Museo Sefardí) - 14th Century CE
- Видео: SUPPLEMENTAL: Christians Creating "Mudejar" Material Culture
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Exploring the Global Middle Ages
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Mudéjar Metalwork: When the Islamic Becomes Christian (15th Century)
- Reading: SUPPLEMENTAL: Christians Adopting Islamic Forms: Harmony in Islamic-Christian Manises Ceramics
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Cultural Backlash: "Blood Purity" Laws: Separating "New" from "Old" Christians (1450s)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The Spanish Inquisition Begins its Work (1478 - 1480 CE)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: The Spanish Tisha B'Av: The End of Jewish Spain and the Expulsion (1492)
- Reading: REQUIRED CORE: Queen Isabel and King Ferdinand Expel Spanish Muslims (1502 CE)
- Discussion Prompt: Religious intolerance and expulsions.
- Reading: The Texas Early Music Project: A Collaborator of Deciphering Secrets MOOCs
- Видео: Video Snippet #1 from Convivencia Re-envisioned - Texas Early Music Project - 6 September 2015
- Видео: Video Snippet #2 from Convivencia Re-envisioned - Texas Early Music Project - 6 September 2015
- Reading: Musical Selection: De Antequera Sale un Moro (From Antequera leaves a Moor)
- Reading: The Historian's Craft: The Task of Reflecting
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Formation of Catholic Spain and Its Impact on Religious Minorities
Оцениваемый: REQUIRED CORE: Creating Conversos at the End of Positive Coexistence
Оцениваемый: Practicing the Historian's Craft: "Reflecting"
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Interpreting Iberia's Past: Our Evaluation of the Evidence
The final section of the course prompts students in the Honors Track to interpret and evaluate a historical artifact from medieval Spain (a material object, architecture, or a manuscript). This peer-reviewed project is not a required to complete the course as a regular student.
7 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Reading: Thank you for Participating! Hope to See You Again!
- Reading: Applying the Historian's Craft
- Reading: Assessing an Artifact: Overview of the Peer Review Project
- Reading: Artifact #1 (Material Culture): Plate with the Arms of Blanche of Navarre
- Reading: Artifact #2 (Manuscript): The Edict of Expulsion (1492)
- Reading: Artifact #3 (Music): Una tarde de verano (A summer afternoon)
- Reading: Artifact #4 (Architecture and Material Culture): "A Poem is a Robe and a Castle: Inscribing Verses on Textiles and Architecture in the Alhambra"
- Discussion Prompt: Why did you choose the artifact that you did?
Оцениваемый: Artifact Analysis Peer Review Project
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My only real complaints are that a lot of the material repeated (readings saying the same as the lecture) and that the lecturer's pronunciation of Spanish names really irked me.
Excellent course on coexistence and religious tolerance, increasingly important to us today.
Fascinating material beautifully presented. On an irrelevant point, the instructor's voice is lovely - it sounds more like a guided meditation than a lecture! :-)
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I have truly enjoyed this course. I have been reading around this subject since I was a teenager. I spent years trying to find a course on it,and I couldn't really afford to take another degree. So, I went back to reading anything I could on this topic,including travelling to Spain on flamenco and sight seeing holidays, L'institut du Monde Arabe for more literature, etc,etc. Just by accident,I found this course ,after enrolling on several online education sites.
This course has a lot of material, videos, extracts, quizzes, forums and analysing and reviewing artefacts,and listening to Andalusi/ Sephardic music,reading poetry etc. I enrolled as an interested learner but it was so interesting,with things I hadn't known about,before,I upgraded. Yes,if you want to get a lot of it,you have to put in the work. The quizzes were a mixture of medium difficulty to challenging: they really kept me on my toes. I learned a lot about honing my skills as a historian : evaluating ,reviewing,reflecting on historical artefacts, with their contexts and significance.
The videos have transcripts/ subtitles facilities. You can work at your own pace,within the time given.
By the end of the course,I had a far deeper and detailed ,joined up understanding of history,politics,art,culture/ anthropology of co existence in Moorish/ Medieval Spain. I shall certainly enrol on the Deciphering Secrets series.
The main lecturer,Roger Louis Martinez- Davila is very enthusiastic, encouraging and dedicated lecturer. I really respect his efforts within this course and all the other interrelated projects he has done. Great contributions from others,too.
A very enriching journey and experience