Three sessions in honor of long-time AARHMS member Teo Ruiz will be held at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in New York. Two sessions are sponsored by AARHMS, and one additional session is sponsored by our sister organization ASPHS. The sessions are listed below, and members interested in attending can find information about registration here.
AHA Session 180
Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 6
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 9:00 AM-11:00 AM
Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Yuen-Gen Liang, Wheaton College (Massachusetts)
Papers:
A Border Policy? Louis IX and the Spanish Connection
William Chester Jordan, Princeton University
The King, the Coin, and the Word: Imagining and Enacting Castilian Frontiers in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Claire Gilbert, University of California, Los Angeles
“All Things to All Men”: Political Messianism in Late-Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Bryan Givens, Pepperdine University
Early Modern Social Networks: The Vallgornera Family across the Mediterranean Sea
Carrie Sanders, University of California, Los Angeles
An End to Conquests: Military Debates and Political Culture in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain
Xavier Gil, Universitat de Barcelona
Comment:
The Audience
AHA Session 211
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain 1
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Jarbel Rodriguez, San Francisco State University
Papers:
The Saint at the Gate: Giving Relics a “Royal Entry” in Eleventh- to Twelfth-Century France
Kate Craig, University of California, Los Angeles
Seasonal Dining in the Middle Ages
Paul Freedman, Yale University
Poetry’s Struggle with “Judaism” in Thirteenth-Century Castile
David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
Poverty and Authority in Late Medieval Castile
Francisco García-Serrano Nebras, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
Transmitting Urgency in the Romance: An Example of Strategic Codeswitching in the Crown of Aragon’s Thirteenth-Century Chancery
Antonio M. Zaldivar, University of California, Los Angeles
AHA Session 239
American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain 2
Sunday, January 4, 2015: 2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
Papers:
Poor Colors, Rich Colors: Spanish Clothing in the Early Sixteenth Century
Hilario Casado Alonso, Universidad de Valladolid
From New Rome to Old: Andrew’s Head and the Circulation of Sanctity
Maya Maskarinec, University of California, Los Angeles
“Muy Grandes Hombres de Acaballo”: New World Influences on Spanish Horsemanship in the Sixteenth Century
Kathryn Renton, University of California, Los Angeles
“Nuestros Españoles”: Hispanic Identity in the Habsburg Historical Imagination
Katherine Elliot van Liere, Calvin College
Comment:
Teofilo F. Ruiz, University of California, Los Angeles
