New Questions, New Sources: Intersecting Documents across Christian Denominations
École française de Rome, 6th-7th December 2021
église/mosquée de l’Ascension, Jérusalem Saint-Sépulcre, Jérusalem volume de peintures illustrant la vie de Jésus, avec légendes en syriaque et en arménien, 16e siècle
The workshop will address the currently compartmentalised academic study of the diverse medieval Christian- and Islamic-ruled societies in the Mediterranean area and the Middle East. We will start from the observation that communities do not live in isolation. This is neither a trivial statement nor a truism. The historiography of the Mediterranean and the Middle East has suffered from academic boundaries and denominational myopia. We will solve it by starting from a Connected History approach and by bringing new evidence to the field.
This workshop will focus on intersecting documents in three ways:
- Archival practice as a window to social and urban history;
- Limits of the confessional approach to Christian documentation;
- Intersecting sources for a cross-analysis approach.
The program is available here