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Brian A. Catlos

Brian A. Catlos   
Brian A. Catlos
    Title:  Associate Professor
    Type:  Faculty Member
    Concentration:  Europe
    Email:  bcatlos@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4915 Office
(831) 459-4915 Message
(831) 459-3334 Fax
    Office:  216 Stevenson
    Office Hours:  On leave 2009 - 2010
    Personal Page:  http://humweb.ucsc.edu/bcatlos/

Courses Taught 
HIS-102A-01 - The Crusades, 1000-1300
HIS-103-01 - Medieval Spain, 600-1500
HIS-194U-01 - Topics in Medieval History
HIS-196U-01 - Topics in Medieval History
HIS-2A-01 - The World to 1500
HIS-5A-01 - Early Muslim World

Research Focus 
Medieval Iberia and Europe; Christian, Muslim and Jewish Mediterranean and Middle East; Ethnicity; Minorities; Social and economic history; Mediterranean Studies; World history

The Mediterranean Seminar

Long Description 
Professional Activities

American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, President
Mediterranean Seminar, Co-Director
UC Mediterranean Studies, Multi-Campus Research Project, PI/ Co-Director
NEH Summer Institute Barcelona, Co-Director
NEH Research Fellow, 2009-10
Book Review Editor (Late Medieval), Speculum

Education History 
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, 2000

Selected Publications 
Muslim Societies in Latin Christendom, 1050–1614 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (in progress)

Editor, Worlds of Economy and History, Studies in Honour of Andrew M . Watson, (Valencia: Universitat de València, forthcoming)

“Who was Philip of Mahdia and Why Did He Have to Die? Confessional Identity and Political Power in the Twelfth-Century Mediterranean” in Mediterranean Chronicle (Corfu: Ionian University). (forthcoming)

“Jewish History in Muslim and Christian Spain in a Humanistic Perspective: Three Episodes” in Judaism (forthcoming)

“Privilegio y poder en el Aragón mudéjar: el auge y declive del çaualaquem Çalema” in Ana Echevarría, ed., Biografías mudéjares (Estudios onomástico-biográficos de al-Andalus) (Madrid: CSIC), pp. 133–82.

“The de Reys (1220–1501): The Evolution of a “Middle-Class” Muslim Family in Christian Aragon” Viator 40: 197–219.

“Justice Served or Justice Subverted? Two Muslim Women Sue a local Mudéjar Official in Thirteenth-Century Aragon” Anuario de Estudios Medievales 39: 177–202.

The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims in Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

"Muhammad Abenadalill: A Muslim Knight in the Service of the Kings of Aragon (1290-1291)." In Harvey Hames, ed., In and Around the Medieval Crown of Aragon: Studies in Honour of Prof. Elena Lourie (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 257-302.

"Contexto social y 'conveniencia' en la Corona de Aragón. Propuesta para un modelo de interacción entre grupos etno-religiosos minoritarios y mayoritarios." Revista d'História Medieval (Valencia), 12 (2002): 220-235.

"Four Kidnappings in s. XIII Aragon: Christian Children as Victims of Christian-Muslim Domination." Scripta Mediterranea 19/20 (1998/1999), 165-80.

"To Catch a Spy: The Case of Zayn al-Din and Ibn Dukan." Medieval Encounters, 2 (1996): 99-114.

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