The Medieval Academy of America will host a Speculum webinar to launch the July themed issue of the journal: “Emerging Issues in Medieval Iberian Studies” on 25 August, 12:00 PM -1:30 PM EDT. The contributing authors, representing various disciplinary approaches, will give 10-minute TED-style talks to present their research articles. Their presentations will be followed by a Q&A session with the audience. The presenters are:
Yosi Yisraeli and Yanay Israeli on “Defining ‘Conversos’ in Fifteenth-Century Castile: The Making of a Controversial Category”
Pamela A. Patton on “What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Color, Race, and Unfreedom in Later Medieval Iberia”
María Jesús Torrens-Álvarez and Donald N. Tuten on “From ‘LaOn’ to the Vernacular: LaOn-Romance Hybridity, Scribal Competence, and Social Transformation in Medieval Castile”
Linda G. Jones on “Representations of Hegemonic Masculinities in Medieval Leonese-Castilian and Almohad Chronicles”
The webinar is free and open to the public. Registration is required:
haps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ei5Uw4lzTsSZjrY0iAl1fQ
The webinar will be recorded and posted on the Medieval Academy of America’s YouTube channel.
