IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 715: Conflict and Integration: Crossing Medieval Borders, III - Religious and Intellectual Borders
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Queen's University Belfast |
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| Organiser: | Elisa Ramazzina, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
| Moderator/Chair: | Elda Morlicchio, Dipartimento di Studi Letterari, Linguistici e Comparati, Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale |
| Paper 715-a | Facilitating Invasion: Conflict and Co-Operation between Monastic Communities and Norse / Norman Invaders in Northumbria and Campania, c. 867-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Political Thought |
| Paper 715-b | Imaginary Borders on the Periphery of Christianity: From Rus' Pilgrims to Muslim and Jewish Travellers in the Holy Land, 13th-14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 715-c | Cosmographic Vision in Nizāmī's Romantic Epic Haft Paykar (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Abstract | This third panel explores intellectual and religious borders on the basis of the social relevance of religion and cultural systems as elements of cross-border integration and as a way to understand trans-cultural relations. Paper -a analyses how monastic communities worked to shape the integration of invading Northmen into the pre-existing political and cultural environments of Northumbria and Campania. Paper -b assesses documents by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim travellers and pilgrims who crossed both imaginary and real borders as they got in touch with different languages, cultures, traditions and religions. Finally, Paper -c compares Nizāmī Ganjavī's 'Seven Beauties' Persian poem to ancient Persian climate theory, according to which the earth is divided into seven kishvar regions, and to relevant diagrams. |