Across the Strait of Gibraltar: Chroniclers from Iberia and North Africa

We are bridging communities across the sea in this episode of the Medieval Grad Podcast. Emma Snowden talks with Lucie Laumonier about her dissertation, “Bridging the Strait: The Shared History of Iberia and North Africa in Medieval Muslim and Christian Chronicles.” She looks at the Strait of Gibraltar as a point of connection between Iberians and North Africans as well as between Christians and Muslims. Her work is based on fascinating chronicles written in North Africa, Al-Andalus and Christian Iberia, and how these chroniclers wrote their shared history.

Emma Snowden defended her dissertation in History at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in June 2021. She is now a visiting assistant professor at Hollins University.

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The guest’s way of talking is a turn off. She keeps saying ‘amm’ ‘ummm’ ‘aaaa’ ‘you know’ .. she should have prepared herself better for the talk.

Also, she does not mention who are the people shes talking about she only says ‘one man living in al andalus said..’ etc.