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"Merchants, Mercenaries and Missionaries: The Society and Culture of the Medieval Mediterranean, c. 500-1500"
A conference to be held
from
Thursday 9th July
to Sunday 12th July 2009
at the
Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies
University of Exeter (Streatham Campus)
Hosted by:
The Society of the Medieval Mediterranean, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies,
Centre for Medieval Studies, Centre for Mediterranean Studies and
Centre for Maritime Historical Studies at University of Exeter
Keynote Speakers:
Peregrine Horden, Professor of Medieval History, Royal Holloway College, University of London
"The Mediterranean and the Origins of the European Economy 600-900"
Jerrilynn D. Dodds, Distinguished Professor of Art History, City University of New York
"Arts of Crusade; Arts of Ambivalence: Christians, Jews and Muslims in the Arts of the Medieval Mediterranean"
Amnon Shiloah, Professor of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem:
“The Advent of the Science of Music in the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation”.
Conference Programme PDF or Word Document
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| Submission closing date for Abstracts 31st May 2009
Registration closing date 15th June 2009
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Convenor, Professor Dionisius A. Agius:
d.a.agius@exeter.ac.uk
Admin. Assistant, Miss Laura Scrivens:
l.scrivens@exeter.ac.uk
Academic Assistant, Mr Alun Williams:
cmdtr@exeter.ac.uk
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
Exeter EX4 4ND
United Kingdom
Tel: +44-1392-264036
Fax: +44-1392-264035
Information and forms
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The doyen of Mediterranean History, Fernand Braudel, has described the Mediterranean as "the greatest document of its past existence". The Medieval Mediterranean has been perceived as a crossroads to which many peoples, in particular missionaries, merchants and mercenaries have flocked. The land divides, the sea unites; or, to paraphrase Braudel, the sea represents not only the greatest feature of the Mediterranean, but also its unity and coherence.
This three-day conference will explore the activities of such people and show that the Medieval Mediterranean was very much one world despite the religious and cultural differences commonly supposed to have divided the region. Our conference will seek to highlight these differences and similarities in a true illustration of diversity within a unity. We invite papers, together with abstracts, in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture, ethnography, history (including the history of science), languages, literature, music, philosophy and religion, and specifically on the following topics:
- Activities of missionary orders
- Artistic, literary and musical exchange
- Byzantine and Muslim navies
- Captives and slaves
- Cargoes, galleys and warships
- Cartography
- Costume and vestments
- Diplomacy
- Material Culture
- Mirrors for Princes
- Music, sacred and secular
- Port towns/city states
- Religious practices: saints, cults and heretics
- Scientific exchange, including astronomy, medicine and mathematics
- Seafaring, seamanship and shipbuilding
- Sufis & Sufi Orders in North Africa and the Levant
- Sultans, kings and other rulers
- Trade and Pilgrimage
- Travel writing
- Warfare: mercenaries and crusaders
Committee members:
Professor Dionisius A. Agius, Professor Simon Barton, Dr Rebecca Bridgman, Mr Gerald Crowson,
Dr Maria Fusaro, Dr Lynette Mitchell, Professor Ian R. Netton & Mr Alun Williams.
Publication
Papers presented at the Conference will be considered for publication in Al-Masāq: Islam and Medieval Mediterranean |
