Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia . Spain

Faculty Member, Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas

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I teach Medieval History in the Department of Medieval History and Palaeography at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, and in the Graduate Program in the same Department. I have also been a Visiting Assistant Professor in the International Spanish Program at Madrid of New York University. Before taking up these positions in 2000, I held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at UNED in Madrid from 1998 to 2000, and worked in several publishing companies. I have conducted research work at Edinburgh University, UCLA, Rice University, and libraries in several countries. My most recent book, The City of the Three Mosques: Ávila and its Muslims in the Middle Ages (Reichert, in press), has been awarded the International Prize for Research on the Culture and History of Al-Andalus by the Al-Babtain Foundation (Kuwait). I was a Visiting Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe" in the Ruhr-Universität, Bochum (Germany) during the year 2011-12, with a research project entitled “Muslims as Heretics in Spanish Medieval Sources”.

My main focus during these years has been the relations between Christianity and Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, with an emphasis on issues such as polemics, conversion and the situation of religious minorities under Christian rule. My recent projects include a new focus on the assimilation of Christian communities by Islam in the Early Middle Ages, trying to set the Iberian Peninsula in a broader Mediterranean context.

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