Program

Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

9/1/1986 - 12/31/1987

Funding Totals

$111,550.00 (approved)
$111,550.00 (awarded)


Frontier Society in the Land of Three Religions: Medieval Spain Before the Discovery of America

FAIN: EH-20629-86

Fordham University (Bronx, NY 10458-9993)
Joseph F. O'Callaghan (Project Director: December 1986 to July 1988)

Funding details:
Original grant (1986) $97,000.00
Supplement (1987) $14,550.00

To support a six-week summer institute and related activities for college and university faculty members on the dynamics of the Spanish crusade to reconquer Muslim territory and its subsequent colonization. The institute discussed the ways in which the Spanish frontier experience was transferred to the New World.