The Identity of a Landscape: Andalusi and Castilian Orchards and Gardens in Murcia in the 13th Century

espanolReconstruccion del paisaje del regadio de Murcia en el siglo XIII, centuria en la que converge el legado hidraulico andalusi trasvasado al nuevo dominio castellano. La interpretacion de textos arabes y castellanos compilados junto a algunos testimonios arqueologicos permite analizar la evolucion de un paisaje natural milenario de agua y tierra a un paisaje humanizado por la sociedad islamica a partir del siglo IX con la fundacion de Madinat Mursiya. Este desarrollado legado paisajistico de la huerta mursi, perdurable en la antroponimia y topominia, comenzaba no obstante a transformarse en poder de la sociedad cristiana en las decadas finales del siglo XIII. EnglishThis article studies the reconstruction of the landscape of the irrigated land of Murcia in the 13th century, at the time when it came under the dominion of Castile. The interpretation of Arabic and Castilian texts, together with archaeological testimonies, allows us to analyse how an ancient natural landscape of water and land had been transformed by the Muslims with the foundation of Madinat Mursiya in the 9th century. This legacy of a cultivated landscape of orchards and gardens began to change, however, with the arrival of the Christians during the final decades of the 13th century. Personal names and place names, on the other hand, did not change in the same way.