Veneration in Motion in Late Antique and Early Medieval IberiaRadboud University & RomanIslam Center Universität Hamburg Workshop

11 July 2023

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Joint Cooperation Workshop between the Project Making a Martyr in Medieval Iberia (589-1080) Universiteit Radboud and the RomanIslam Center (Universität Hamburg)

As an important form of religious and cultural capital in late antiquity and the early middle ages, the cults of sacred figures moved: between institutions, between cities, between regions and between religious traditions. By what vectors did veneration travel? What were the impulses and interests behind importing and exporting sacred figures? By tackling these dynamics of cultural and religious transfer through an interdisciplinary examination of liturgy, music, literature and material culture, we hope to get at the heart of what sacred figures meant to Iberian communities—both Christian and Muslim—and the religious and cultural networks their movement reflects.

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