IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 645: Remembering Travels, Travelling in Memories, II

Organiser:	Jana Valtrová, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno
Moderator/Chair:	Rebecca Darley, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
Paper 645-a	Looking for Tradition: Zoroastrian Travellers between Iran and India (Language: English) Ionuţ-Valentin Cucu, Institut für Iranistik, Freie Universität Berlin / Facultatea de Istorie, Universitatea din Bucureşti Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Local History, Religious Life
Paper 645-b	The Alan Christian Nobles at the Court of Great Khans (Language: English) Vladimír Liščák, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Praha Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 645-c	Remembering Franciscan Martyrs in Europe and Asia (Language: English) Jana Valtrová, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract	The papers in this panel attempt to explore and discuss the variety of memories connected to certain peoples or events located to medieval Asia and revived in different types of sources, both of Western and Eastern origin. The variability of discourses of remembering past events reveals the strong connection between memory and hope and between the past and the future.