IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1634: Sharing the Holy Land: Perceptions of Shared Sacred Space in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean, IV - Pilgrimage Accounts
Thursday 9 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe, Warburg Institute, University of London |
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| Organiser: | Jan Vandeburie, Warburg Institute, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Philip Booth, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Paper 1634-a | A Community of Pilgrims? (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Religious Life |
| Paper 1634-b | Rivalry and Respect in Late 15th-Century Travel Narratives (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1634-c | 'Felix peccatus?': The Musings of a Late Medieval Pilgrim on Entering Mosques (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Following from the symposium to be held at the Warburg Institute, these sessions seek to address how both Western pilgrims, and the indigenous Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Levantine populations perceived the sharing of religious shrines with other faiths. Of particular interest is how this sharing was described and explained in contemporary accounts and how this influenced the knowledge of other faiths among the Semitic religions. These sessions will focus on the period from c. 1000 to c. 1500, addressing the changing political context in the Levant and its influence on the sharing of sacred space. |