Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo and the Other The video of the conference (in English and Turkish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Y-2LPcgLoIn the last appointment of the conference series ‘Middle Ages on the Move‘, a project developed by Federico de Renzi, Simone Costanzo and Dost-I, we talked of the literary side of travel together with Cristiano Bedin and Marco Di …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
