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The conference will be dedicated to the memory of the former president of the Society, Professor Simon Barton.The keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Petra Sijpesteijn (University of Leiden), 8th July 2019, and Professor Amy Remensnyder (Brown University), 10th July 2019.The medieval Mediterranean was not a static maritime space. In recent years, studies have focused on Mediterranean dynamics, connections, encounters and entanglements. What approaches do researches from History, Literature, Archaeology, Philology and other disciplines adopt to better understand the complexity of the medieval Mediterranean? How and to what extent did multiple agents, phenomena and factors interact to shape and intertwine the multidimensional spheres of the Mediterranean? We welcome papers from all disciplines that study movement and mobilityfrom different perspectives in and across the medieval Mediterranean and its extensions, both physical and imagined. This theme invites a variety of lines of inquiry, a number of which are suggested below.Topics of the conference could include, but are by no means limited to:Multicultural contacts, transculturation and assimilation in the medieval MediterraneanMedieval Mediterranean crossingsCirculation of political, religious and cultural ideasCirculation of people and commoditiesMajor and minor, forced and voluntary migrationsPilgrimage and religious mobilityDiplomacy and its agentsCommerce and its agentsMilitary expeditions and coastal defenceNaval technology and navigationMedieval Mediterranean geostrategyGeographical explorationsLinks between the Mediterranean and connected seas (Atlantic, Black Sea, Red Sea)CFP-SMM-Bcn2019Télécharger