ERC Advanced Grant · 2024
Christians among Muslims: Monasticism in early Islamic al-Andalus (8th-11th Centuries)
In recent decades, the archaeological and written records have been mobilised to update our knowledge of early Islamic al-Andalus and the subsequent transformation that the arrival of Islam brought about in the Iberian Peninsula from 711 onwards. This historiographical renewal has hardly affected however the study of Christian monasticism in al-Andalus after this defining moment during the early Islamic period (8th-11th c.). This project aims at providing a step-change in the way in which this phenomenon has been investigated until now by developing an innovative and unprecedented interdisciplinary approach to it through the integration of state-of the-art historical, archaeological and…
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