Universität KonstanzExzellenzcluster „Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration“

Shifting Cultures and Rituals in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond

18. Juli 2016

International workshop

The aim of this workshop is to explore the cross-pollination of such religious and cultural concepts, ideas, and customs that occurred as a result of the migration, interaction, and cohabitation of peoples from different religions and cultures in the era between late antiquity and c.1600.

This workshop will examine elements that were borrowed from one culture by another when they came into contact, the reasons behind deliberate borrowings, the implications of borrowings, and the reactions in response to the resultant changes. This will highlight the medial grey areas, and how these were fought, sought, or tolerated by both authorities and the people themselves, in order to identify how contacts between groups from different religions reshaped them despite contemporaneous attempts to maintain orthodoxy. The goal is to emphasise the various ways in which contact, exchange, cohabitation, and interaction produced a synergy of change in their midst.

Mon–Wed, 18–20 July 2016, 1 pm
Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (Bischofsvilla)
Otto-Adam-Str. 5, Konstanz

Organization

Clara Almagro Vidal (Granada, Konstanz) clara.almagro[at]uni-konstanz.de
Jessica Tearney-Pearce (Cambridge)