Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	321
Title	Teaching about the Medieval Frontier
Date/Time	Monday 4 July 2022: 16.30-18.00
Organiser	Victor Manuel Cabañero Martin, Centro de Enseñanza Superior en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Don Bosco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Moderator/Chair	Leonor Sierra Macarrón, Centro de Enseñanza Superior en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Don Bosco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Paper 321-a	Repoblación y despoblación, como fenómeno histórico y actual, entre los ríos Duero y Tajo en la Península Ibérica (Language: Español) Victor Manuel Cabañero Martin, Centro de Enseñanza Superior en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Don Bosco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Index Terms: Demography; Education; Social History; Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 321-b	The Transmission of the Process of Reconquest in Spanish Textbooks (Language: English) Leonor Sierra Macarrón, Centro de Enseñanza Superior en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación Don Bosco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Index Terms: Education; Mentalities; Social History; Teaching the Middle Ages
Paper 321-c	Working as Archaeologists: A Didactic Proposal (Language: English) José Carlos de la Torre Ávila, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas Index Terms: Archaeology - Sites; Education; Mentalities; Teaching the Middle Ages
Abstract	In the Middle Ages, the concepts of nation and state as we understand them today did not exist. In fact, contemporary borders do not coincide with those existing in medieval European territories. However, when the processes related to the configuration and evolution of each territory during the Middle Ages are transmitted in the classroom, it is done from the point of view of belonging to a contemporary state. Consequently, border conflicts, population movements and depopulation, the establishment of new borders or the configuration of new territorial units that took place in the Middle Ages must be analysed from the principles of historical thought and contextualised in the idiosyncrasies of this period. This session is open to all those proposals that aim to show a teaching of medieval border realities from the assumptions of historical thought.