IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 1201: Medieval Sicily, III: Patterns and Drivers of Settlement

Wednesday 3 July 2024, 14:15-15:45

Sponsor:	Salem Kolleg
Organisers:	John Aspinwall, Salem Kolleg, Überlingen Alex Metcalfe, Department of History, University of Lancaster
Moderator/Chair:	John Aspinwall, Salem Kolleg, Überlingen
Paper 1201-a	Cifali in Post-Classical Times: Continuity, Transformations, Adaptations (Language: English) Antonino Facella, Dipartimento di Antichità Filosofia e Storia, Università degli Studi di Genova Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life and Economics - Rural
Paper 1201-b	Norman Rulers and Latin-Christian Cultural Patterns in the Light of Archaeology: A Case Study of Santa Maria di Campogrosso Monastery (Language: English) Sławomir Moździoch, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy and Religious Life
Paper 1201-c	Luxury Arts and Royal Representation in Norman Sicily: A Case Study (Language: English) Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts and Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session offers an interdisciplinary approach that combines archaeological research with the study of administrative legal documents. Based around a series of new excavations, archival research, and the integration of diverse data sources from Sicily and al-Andalus, it seeks to shine new light on the socio-political and religious landscape and legal systems that shaped life on the island. In doing so, it shall not only offer a focused study of Sicily itself, but also seek to explain the dynamic connectivity between the island's populations and its secular and religious institutions.