Global Levant during the Middle Ages

The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) and the University of Leicester (UoL) will host a two-day hybrid workshop on 27 & 28 March.

The Levant experienced fundamental social, political and cultural changes during the Middle Ages. Many of these changes were connected to, and thus reflective of, the wider regional and ‘international’ developments, from the spread of Islam to the emergence of the Crusaders and the dominance of Italian merchants.  

Against this background, this workshop seeks to explore how connections with the Levant help shaped the historical trajectories in regions such as the Middle East, eastern Mediterranean and the Silk Road.  It is hoped the proceedings of the workshop will be published in Levant.

Corisande Fenwick will give the Keynote Lecture on 27 March entitled 'Connections and comparisons: Bilad ah-Sham and the Islamic world in the early Middle Ages.'

Corisande, who was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022 for Archaeology, has established herself as one of the leading archaeologists of early Islamic and late antique archaeology, particularly in North Africa.

Papers at the event will also be given by Institute of Archaeology alumni Carmen Ting (currently Lecturer in Archaeological Science at the University of Leicester) and Veronica Occari (currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ceramic and Glaze Analysis at UCL). 

Further details

• Global Levant during the Middle Ages Workshop