IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1530: Inscriptions as Networks and Entanglements in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean, I

Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	ERC GRAPH-EAST: Latin as an Alien Script in the Medieval 'Latin East' / Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302)
Organiser:	Maria Aimé Villano, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302), Université de Poitiers / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Poitiers
Moderator/Chair:	Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM), Université de Poitiers / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
Paper 1530-a	Inscriptions and Heraldic Symbols from Cenacle on Mount Zion: Material Evidence of Christian Pilgrimage in Mamluk Jerusalem (Language: English) Michael Chernin, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem Index terms: Archaeology - General, Crusades, Epigraphy, Technology
Paper 1530-b	The Pilgrimage of Anselm and John Adornes to the Holy Land, 1470-1471: An Illustration of the Entanglements of Social, Professional, and Symbolic Networks of a Prominent Family from Bruges (Language: English) Clément Dussart, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302), Université de Poitiers / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Poitiers Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archives and Sources, Epigraphy, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1530-c	The Inscribed Identity of the Bodrum St Peter Castle: A New Documentation for the Mural Inventory (Language: English) Hasan Sercan Sağlam, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302), Université de Poitiers / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Poitiers Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - General, Crusades, Epigraphy
Abstract	The medieval Mediterranean has long been thought of in terms of networks and dynamics of exchanges. One type of 'network' has not yet been studied: the epigraphic network, formed by the inscriptions and graffiti in Latin alphabet of pilgrims, travellers, crusaders, military orders and merchants. What kinds of entanglements, paths, and circulations are revealed by the graphic signs? Is it possible to trace epigraphic recurrent patterns or connections between East and West? In the Holy Places, where are engraved and painted many different scripts, such as Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Syriac, Latin etc., how to think about the relationships between messages and languages?