IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1317: The Materiality of Inter-Cultural Encounters in the Latin East
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | William Purkis, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Susan B. Edgington, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Paper 1317-a | Latins, 'Others', and the Creation of Religious Technology in the Colonial Kingdom of Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Crusades, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1317-b | Knights, Monks, and Holy Oil: The Transmission of Relics and Their Stories from East to West (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1317-c | Uniformity and Difference: The Greek Monk as Seen from the West, c. 1200-1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session will explore how attention to religious material culture might enrich our knowledge and understanding of inter-cultural relations in the Latin East. Papers will consider how and why the involvement of non-Latins in the invention of sacred objects in the colonial kingdom of Jerusalem was understood to add to their meaning and value; how certain relics, specifically the oil collected from Saydnaya and Mount Sinai, could become sites for inter-cultural dialogue and exchange; and how clothes could be used as markers of identity and thus also as indicators of difference in the multi-confessional societies of the Holy Land and the medieval Mediterranean. |