Call for contribution -IMC Leeds 2023 Inscriptions as Networks and Entanglements in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean (original) (raw)

Call for contribution -IMC Leeds 2023 Inscriptions as Networks and Entanglements in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean

The ERC GRAPH-EAST project (CESCM, University of Poitiers and CNRS) will sponsor three sessions that explore topics dealing with "Epigraphic Networks and Entanglements in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean" for the International Medieval Congress 2023 in Leeds (UK). The Medieval Mediterranean has long been thought of in terms of networks, circulations, and dynamics of exchanges, at different scales. 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. The theme for the IMC Leeds 2023, "Networks and Entanglements," presents an opportunity to explore the complex set of relationships between the epigraphic writing and its web of interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean.