Since 04/2022
Doctoral candidate in the Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Title: Gerechtigkeit als konzeptuelle Legitimationsressource in der Propaganda der Kreuzzüge
Supervision: Prof. Dr. Ludger Körntgen, Prof. Dr. Heike Grieser
In this short book, Nikolas Jaspert attempts to provide an overview of the history of the so-called Reconquista. Contrary to the image of a steady reconquest of Islamic territories, Jaspert aims to stress that this period was in fact characterized by various kinds of cultural exchange. Against this backdrop, he deconstructs the Reconquista as a powerful, but flawed narrative that does not sufficiently take into account the changing courses of the wars on the Iberian Peninsula and which obscures other aspects of the relations between Christians, Muslims and also Jews in this period.
The book under discussion was published in 2021 in the Was bedeutet das alles? series by Reclam. It is the extended version of an essay that Reinold Schmücker, who teaches Philosophy at the University of Münster, published already in 2000 in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.