Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo and the Other In the last appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, we will talk of the literary side of travel together with Cristiano Bedin and Marco Di Branco. We will begin our journey the Muslim Ibn Battuta and the Christian Marco Polo and the we will …
Strange Encounters in the Middle Kingdom Christians and Muslims in China In the fifth appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Ermanno Visintainer will talk about how Christians came into contact with Chinese culture in the Middle Ages, while Hayrettin İhsan Erkoç will explain how Muslims came into contact with Chinese culture …
Drawing | Photographing the walls of Constantinople Download tiket Drawing | Photographing the walls of Constantinople Download tiket April 5 – June 30, 2024 Opening on Friday 5 April at 19:00. It can be visited every week on Friday-Saturday between 14:30-17:30. For private bookings please email (info@senpiyer.org) The exhibition focuses on the curators’ decades of …
International Conference TRAVELLING TO THE EAST Marco Polo and the Mendicant Friars Friday 25 – Saturday 26 October 2024 Istituto di Studi Ecumenici “San Bernardino” Sestiere Castello 2786 – 30122 Venezia Conference Programme get the pdf ???? During the two days that will take place in Venice on 25 and 26 October 2024, the aim …
La misura mediterranea dell’umano A new book by Claudio Monge and Giuseppina De Simone The Mediterranean, for centuries the meeting point of peoples, traditions and ideals, is the heart from which the unified culture, history and identity that we still recognize as a founding part of us were born. Is the memory of its ancient …
Terrae Incognitae Language and Culture in Medieval Crimea In the fourth appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Antonio Musarra will examine the Codex Cumanicus from a “Western” point of view and Nicole Kançal-Ferrari will focus on architectural diversity in medieval Crimea.Through this conference, we will seek to see the influences and reactions …
Pious Travelbooks Dominicans in Anatolia and in the Levant In the third appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Aysu Saban and Ahmet Deniz Altunbaş will tell us the story of the Dominican friars travelling through Anatolia and Mesopotamia. Who where they? Where did they go and why? What did they write in …
Christian Women in Turkey Book Presentation In the book “Christian Women in Turkey” are told the lives of more than fifty Christian women who lived in the territory of today’s Turkey over the centuries. It is a thought-provoking and highly informative book, but also full of some sad experiences. Each chapter offers insights into the lives …
Among the Infıdels Christians and Muslims in Indıa and Tibet In the second appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Melis Savaş and Simone Costanzo will tell us about the “discovery” of the Indian and Tibetan civilizations by Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages. What were their first impressions, what did they …
Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities Relations between East and West from the twelfth to the fifteenth century In the first appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, Buket Kitapçı Bayrı and Federico De Renzi will speak.They will tell us about the encounters and clashes, the fluctuation of borders and identities between East and …
