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In Residence - Fall 2009 | Spring 2009 | Fall 2007 | Fall 2006
FELLOWS IN RESIDENCE - FALL 2007
UCHRI was pleased to host "The Emergence of 'the West': Shifting Hegemonies in the Medieval Mediterranean" residential research group during Fall 2007, convened by Brian Catlos, UCSC and Sharon Kinoshita, UCSC.
Front row from left to right:
Céline Dauverd, Karla Mallette, Nuria Silleras-Fernández, Sharon Kinoshita, Oumelbanine Zhiri
Back row from left to right:
Ray Kea, Brian Catlos, Seth Kimmel, Daniel Schroeter
Photo by Jennifer Wilkens
Brian Catlos, History, UC Santa Cruz, Convener
Céline Dauverd, History, UCLA
Seth Kimmel, Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Sharon Kinoshita, Literature, UC Santa Cruz, Co-Proposer
Ray Kea, History, UC Riverside
Karla Mallette, French & Italian, Miami University
Daniel Schroeter, History, UC Irvine
Nuria Silleras-Fernández, History, UC Santa Cruz
Oumelbanine Zhiri, Literature, UC San Diego
Group Proposal
Project Overview
In The Making of Europe (1993)
historian Robert Bartlett eschewed essentialist notions of European
identity that have long implicitly or explicitly pervaded medieval
historiography to redefine “Europe” as a culture—a constellation of
institutions and practices originating in the Carolingian empire and
diffused between c. 950 and 1350 through conquest, colonization, and
acculturation. This recognition of the historical constructedness of
“Europe” during the high and late Middle Ages opens the way for a
reformulated understanding of areas like the Iberian peninsula,
southern Italy, and the Byzantine empire— sites that, despite their
great political, economic, and cultural importance, are frequently
relegated to the margins of a “medieval Europe” strongly identified
with the northerly cultures of France, Germany, and England. Our
project seeks to complement and correct Bartlett’s genealogy of Europe
with a genealogy of the medieval Mediterranean. In contrast to
“Europe,” defined first of all by its allegiance to a certain hegemonic
version of Latin Christianity (as opposed to the heterodox practices of
Christian Iberia or the “Celtic fringe”), the Mediterranean basin is
characterized by a plurality of religions, within as well as between
multilingual and/or multiconfessional polities like the Iberian
kingdoms (both Christian and Islamic), Norman Sicily, and
Fatimid/Ayyubid/Mamluk Egypt. More
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