Quick Facts

Medium Of Instructions	Mode Of Learning	Mode Of Delivery
English	Self Study	Video and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

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The Syllabus

Videos

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)

Readings

What type of student are you? Casual Observer. Interested Learner. Engaged Investigator.5m

Are you a "Casual Observer"?5m

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?

Practice Exercises

What type of learner are you?
REQUIRED CORE: Introduction to Coexistence
REQUIRED CORE: Roman and Visigothic Hispania

Videos

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)

Readings

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)

Practice Exercises

REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Conquest of Visigothic Hispania
REQUIRED CORE: Islamic Al-Andalus
REQUIRED CORE: Sefarad: Jewish Spain

Videos

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

Readings

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

Practice Exercises

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

Videos

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

Readings

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

Practice Exercises

REQUIRED CORE: Formation of Catholic Spain and Its Impact on Religious Minorities
REQUIRED CORE: Creating Conversos at the End of Positive Coexistence

Readings

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"