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 …
For a Theology from the Mediterranean A Theological Manifesto Dear Friends, Just a year ago, a journey of reflection began between cultural centres working in contact with and in reference to the Mediterranean sea, as a space of cultural, religious and economic cross-fertilisation. This initial process of getting to know each other led to the …
Middle Ages on the Move The Lands of the East through the eyes of travelling friars A project by DoSt-I, in collaboration with Federico De Renzi and Simone Costanzo The lecture series explores the experiences of travelling religious such as Dominicans, and Franciscans and the complicated creation of new cultural ties and in the lands …
Intereligious Dialogue In an Age of Volcanoes and Refugees In this conference we would like to rediscover why fraternal encounter with people from far-off lands is so important today. We’ll try to sketch the shape of Christian-Muslim relations as they were for the first decade or so of this century. Then, we’d explore some of …
Do You Remember Abraham? an almost brandnew podcast (in Turkish) The lecture entitled ‘Do you remember Abraham… A comparative approach to the stories of Abraham in the Quran and the Bible’, presented by Dr George Bristow on 17 April has been released as a podcast. You can listen to it on Spotify or on our …
