Amongst the Universidad Complutense de Madrid summer courses, the one dedicated to the topic of “Mediterranean Family Structures: Medieval past and current echoes,” has the objective of describing and analyzing the religious, legal, social and cultural features which frame and uphold family structures on the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean, based on the idea that human groups following the three religions of the Book co-existed there in the Middle Ages and live together there at the present time: Christian, Muslim and Jewish.

The purpose of this course, which will be held from July 14-18, is for specialists from different fields (historians, sociologists, philologists, anthropologists, etc.) to explain their knowledge, contribute the perspectives of their various disciplines and provide mixed, cross-cutting viewpoints on problems of such a great depth. Overall, the importance of the family structure in forging the identity of confessional societies will be examined, as well as the way in which that structure is projected into current definitions of identity.

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