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Call for submissions to the 2025 round of the Dionisius A. Agius prize for a distinguished first book in the field of Medieval Mediterranean studies. Deadline 31 January 2025. Info, eligibility criteria, and application form on the SMM website: societymedievalmediterranean.com/dionysius-a-ag…

The SMM is now accepting applications for the 2025/26 round of the Simon Barton PG & ECR conference prize. Info and application form here: societymedievalmediterranean.com/simon-barton-p…

After a very productive, stimulating and fun #SMM2024, another treat: visiting #Inchcolm island guided by @Pseudo_Isidore A memorable day to conclude a memorable conference! Massive thanks to @mikecarrhistory for organising everything so amazingly! @socmedimedit #medieval

Thanks to @Pseudo_Isidore for expertly guiding #SMM2024 attendees on a fascinating tour of Inchcolm Abbey. A perfect finale to a very successful conference! We’re so grateful to @mikecarrhistory for his brilliant organisation and hosting

To conclude #SMM2024 Dr Hannah Barker’s keynote: an inspiring talk about slavery, friendship and emotions in the #Medieval #Mediterranean @socmedimedit @EdinburghUni

We’re finishing a wonderful conference with an engaging keynote lecture from Prof. Hannah Barker on ‘Slavery, Emotion, and Tatar-Venetian Relations in the Memoirs of Giosafat Barbaro’ #SMM2024

And coming up in our final session of papers, we’ve got: intercultural relations; new perspectives on the crusades; intellectual interactions in the western Mediterranean; rhythms of Jewish life #SMM2024

After lunch we have: Rhythms of everyday life; more on Mediterranean women; literary interactions; inter religious interactions #SMM2024

It’s Wednesday, the 2nd and final day of papers @ #SMM2024 We’re starting with papers on Historiography and Ideology in Chronicles; Women in the late antique Mediterranean; hagiography in southern Italy; the Mamluk Sultanate in Christian sources

Excellent start of Day 3, talking about travel, mobility, slavery, diplomacy and (of course) friendship in the #medieval #Mediterranean #SMM2024 @socmedimedit @EdinburghUni

Amazing #SMM2024 @socmedimedit Conference so far @EdinburghUni Plenty of inspiring papers, new discoveries, thought-provoking debates, and… a whiskey tasting to conclude day 2, in perfect Scottish spirit (pun unintended).

Finally for day 2 we have more on Harald Hardrada in the Mediterranean; also more becoming Carolingian in the Iberian peninsula; identity in the Ayyubid period; & papers in women and food in the medieval Mediterranean #SMM2024

Session 4 sees the first papers on Harald Hardrada; discussions of becoming Carolingian; urban experiences across the Mediterranean; & interactions between the Crown of Aragon and the Mamluk Sultanate #SMM2024

Excited to hear papers in session 1 this morning @ #SMM2024 First up we’re talking about taxation in medieval Egypt; diplomacy and alterity in southern Italy and Sicily; religious spaces in the eastern Mediterranean; and cross cultural interactions in Iberia #conferencing

As part of this year’s @socmedimedit conference in Edinburgh, we visited the Edinburgh Central Mosque. An image of the mosque was featured at the very first Woolf Institute exhibition in 2017.

Iñaki Martín Viso intervendrá esta tarde como keynote speaker en el congreso de la @socmedimedit celebrado en @EdinburghUni Toda la información sobre su lección y el resto del programa⬇️⬇️ societymedievalmediterranean.com/2024-edinburgh

We’re live at #SMM2024 in Edinburgh with our first keynote, Prof. Iñaki Martin Viso on Murder and Adultery in north-western Iberia #conferencing #medieval #mediterrranean