Medieval Iberia in a Connected World: The Raw-Materials Record
This hybrid session at the 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies aims to contribute to the production of knowledge about the Global Middle Ages by analyzing the role that the Iberian Peninsula played in the trade of raw materials.
On the one hand, the session’s aim is to advance the knowledge of the Iberian Peninsula as a point of arrival/departure of raw materials from not only extra-peninsular but also extra-European territories. In addition, it is also intended to address the representations and symbolism of those raw materials from outside the peninsula that they acquired when they arrived there.
This session will create a space for methodological reflection. It thus aims to bring together researchers from very different disciplinary perspectives, here including not only the Humanities but also scholars from the Experimental and Natural Sciences. This session will highlight the need for cross-cultural approaches to a more comprehensive approach to Medieval Iberia.
Topics
The organizers invite papers for one session that might contribute to understand Medieval Iberia in a connected world by addressing the raw-materials record. Papers may delve into issues of short, medium and long distance trade; the subsequent use of these raw materials in the production of objects, artifacts or buildings; as well as the meaning and symbolism that can be identified from them in visual and literary culture.
Proposals for papers will be accepted through September 15. Delivery mode: Hybrid session.
Organized by Erika Loic ([email protected]) and Alicia Miguélez ([email protected]). Sponsored by Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Univ. NOVA de Lisboa.