Torrevieja, headquarters of the research seminar on border spaces and societies in the Iberian southeast during the Middle Ages

The FROMEDVAL research project (Border, identity and transfers in the transformations of the southern kingdom of Valencia in the Middle Ages, 13th-16th centuries), directed by the professor of the University of Alicante José Vicente Cabezuelo and financed by the Department of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society of the Generalitat, organizes its research seminar in Torrevieja in collaboration with the University Headquarters in Torrevieja and the Municipal Institute of Culture.

The seminar will take place tomorrow, Thursday 24 and Friday, November 25, at the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Center, where specialist researchers from four universities and a national research center (Universities of Alicante, Castilla-La Mancha, Murcia and Extremadura, together with to the Institució Milà i Fontanals, CSIC, Barcelona).

On Friday, November 25, at 7:00 p.m., it will close with a master lecture entitled "Medieval Frontiers: the features of militarized societies" by Francisco García Fitz (Professor at the University of Extremadura), at the Palace of the music. The objective is to generate a forum for scientific and social dissemination, so both the seminar and the keynote speech have free admission until full capacity is reached.

Expert research staff in the Middle Ages will debate in Torrevieja on the border societies in the Iberian southeast, in this seminar that aims to be a forum for debate on the societies that underwent intense changes in our territories throughout the medieval centuries. For this, the Iberian southeast, a place of conflict and meeting between the peninsular powers, the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile, is shown as an ideal backdrop and a mosaic of multiple past experiences to learn about all the transformations around the borders. land and sea, the multiple and complex relationships between Muslims, Jews, Christians and converts, the lives of Almogavars, pirates and corsairs, the formation of historical landscapes, the projects for the creation of ecclesiastical autonomy, the ideas of fiscal and economic integration, together with the realities of cross-border violence.

The border, its people, behaviors, ideas, myths and topics have always been a common place for reflection, learning and knowledge, yesterday and today.