Due to their very nature, borders are spaces prone to the formation and development of multicultural shapes and elements of great diversity, which may also be especially original and innovative. Materially and conceptually, the border works on several planes and in different registers: the physical, the symbolic and the imaginary, and in each of them it displays its own unusual behaviors. As an idea and a reality, the border is a dual, dialectical object: it combines limitation and movement, closure and openness, end and beginning, rejection and acceptance. The Iberian Peninsula has been a very representative location in terms of the convergence of two civilizations: the Western European Christian civilization and the Eastern Arab Islamic civilization, which is why it is a privileged place to study and evaluate the wide range of multicultural phenomena that result when different peoples meet and mix.

 

At this new edition, organized by the Municipal Government of Alcalá la Real and the Provincial Government of Jaén, an homage will be paid to the Arabist from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Pedro Martínez Montávez.

Estudios de Frontera began in 1995, with a memorial of the centennial of the Arcipreste de Hita; continuing in 1997 with an homage to Claudio Sánchez Albornoz; 1999, homage to Juan de Mata Carriazo Arroquia; 2001, homage to Enrique Toral Peñaranda; 2003, homage to Juan Torres Fontes; 2005, homage to Manuel González Jiménez; 2008, homage to María Jesús Viguera Molins; 2010, homage to Cristina Segura Graiño and 2013, homage to Emilio Molina López. The records of all the above were published by the Provincial Government of Jaén and can be found on the website of the Spanish Association of Medieval Studies.

 

Those who wish to submit texts must send their information, title and a summary to the Secretary’s office, no later than March 15, 2015.

The final length of the text may not exceed 15 DIN A-4, double-spaced. It must be submitted both on paper and in a computerized format.

Those submitting texts must personally provide a summary of the communication, in the time which is indicated by the Organization.

Those works not defended by their author during the congress will not be published.

 

Coordinated by: José Rodríguez Molina, Antonio Linage Conde and Domingo Murcia Rosales.

Secretary’s office: Municipal Government of Alcalá la Real. Department of Culture and University

Juan Martín Afán de Rivera and Francisco Toro Ceballos

Phone: 953587041

E-mail: cultura.tecnico@alcalalareal.es