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 …
Terrae Incognitae Ortaçağ Kırım’ında Dil ve Kültür ‘Hareket Halindeki Ortaçağ’ konferans dizisinin dördüncü buluşmasında Antonio Musarra Codex Cumanicus’u “Batılı” bir bakış açısıyla incelerken, Nicole Kançal-Ferrari Ortaçağ Kırım’ındaki mimari çeşitliliğe odaklanacak.Bu konferans aracılığıyla, Ortaçağ Kırım’ında Batı ve Türk kültürlerinin karşılaşmasından kaynaklanan etkileri ve tepkileri görmeye çalışacağız. Nicole Kançal-Ferrari, Marmara Üniversitesi Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi’nde Doçent olarak …
Terrae Incognitae Lingua e cultura nella Crimea medievale Nel quarto appuntamento del ciclo di conferenze “Medioevo in movimento”, Antonio Musarra esaminerà il Codex Cumanicus da un punto di vista “occidentale” e Nicole Kançal-Ferrari si concentrerà sulla diversità architettonica nella Crimea medievale.Attraverso questa conferenza, cercheremo di vedere le influenze e le reazioni che risultarono dall’incontro tra …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Sharing Abraham Do Muslims and Christians truly share Abraham? Is Abraham a starting point for dialogue among monotheistic faith communities? These questions have seldom been examined as thoroughly or as sensitively as they are here. Bristow rigorously analyzes biblical and qur’anic Abraham narratives and builds on the tight connection between narrative and worldview to lay …
On the Incarnation “On the Incarnation of the Word“, the theological essay written by the great father of the Church Athanasius bishop of Alexandria (296-373 a.D.), has been translated in Turkish by Onur Yöş and published by Kitab-ı Mukkades Şirketi Yayınları in 2020. Onur Yöş will introduce us into the life of Athanasius and present …
