The Medieval Spain Project

FAIN: TI-50110-08

Catticus Corporation (Berkeley, CA 94710-2597)
Kiran Kiki Kapany (Project Director: November 2007 to present)

Funding details:
Original grant (2008) $800,000.00
Supplement (2013) $225,000.00

Production of a two-hour historical television documentary, website, and DVD that examine the rich and complex intermingling of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Spain from the Muslim conquest in 711 through the consolidation of Christian power in the 15th century.

The Medieval Spain Project is a historical television documentary examining the rich and complex period of Muslim, Christian and Jewish coexistence in Spain that began with the Muslim conquest in 711 and continued through the consolidation of Christian power, into the 15th century. During this period Muslims, Christians and Jews competed and collaborated in the construction of a culture and a civilization that would become instrumental in shaping what we now know as Europe.