Seminar Topics and Timetable

Term	Week	Seminar
Autumn Term	1	Introduction: An Introduction to the geopolitical, spiritual, and physical landscapes of the Iberian Peninsula
	2	The European history of Islam
	3	‘Convivencia’: myths and realities
	4	Tolerance and cultural fusion
	5	The importance of the Spanish legal tradition, from siete partidas to Inter Caetera
	6	~ Reading Week - no seminar ~
	7	The Gendered Landscapes of the Iberian World
	8	Religious motifs of violence: crusading from ‘reconquista’ to conquista
	9	The early Atlantic world: The Canary Islands as a testing-ground for colonialism
	10	Shifting religious landscapes: Spain and religious change in Europe
Spring Term	1	Shifting social landscapes: the changing face of welfare and poor relief
	2	Religion and power: Inquisition in Spain and Empire
	3	Material Culture
	4	Spain’s rise as a European empire: Italy and the Netherlands
	5	Spain’s rise as a global empire: from the Atlantic to the Pacific
	6	~ Reading Week - no seminar ~
	7	Fragile coherence: the expulsion of the Moriscos
	8	The impact of the new world on the old
	9	The global impact of the Spanish Empire, indigenous experiences
	10	The Spanish Invention of Rights and International Law
	Summer Term	1	Revision
2		Revision