Francisco Cintrón Mattei

Graduate Fellow, 2021-22

Francisco J. Cintrón Mattei is a third-year Ph.D. student in Medieval Studies. His research centers broadly on the legal status and legal culture of religious minorities residing throughout the medieval Mediterranean. A historian by training, his focus begins with the social history of Christians living in Muslim Spain, delves comparatively into the status of European minorities, and extends back into the Christian communities of the wider medieval Islamicate world. He is interested in the lived reality of legal pluralism and the social dynamics that emerge from the convergence of pluralistic legal systems in medieval societies. Additionally, his studies trace the dual development of medieval canon law and Classical Islamic law as they pertain to the history of Christian-Muslim relations.