This subproject explores the evidence for Andalusi commemoration of Christian martyrs through comparison between Andalusi sources and those from Christian Iberia, helping to place the practice of Andalusi Christians in context. The focus of this subproject is the so-called Cordoban Calendar, a combination of Arabic-language almanac and Christian liturgical calendar. This source has regularly been seen as a window onto the practice of Christians in tenth-century Córdoba, but Cathrien Hoijinck has discovered up to nineteen manuscripts from widely differing time periods and geographical areas that contain the text in different versions. The variety suggests we should approach the Cordoban Calendar as a living text and must conduct careful comparisons of its Christian calendar with other calendars to evaluate how we might use it to better understand the commemoration of martyrs in Islamic Spain.
This subproject is part of the main project Making a martyr in medieval Iberia, 589-1080 (P.I. Dr Kati Ihnat).
