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The Manchester Beatus World Map, Spain, 12th Century.

Project (2015-2020)

Convivencia. Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)

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Contact Elena Serrano for further information about this project

History of science, medicine, and technology has long struggled with how to organize itself in a manner in which it can do justice to the manifold forms of organized, systematic knowledge that different human cultures have produced in the past as well as today. The concept of the cross-disciplinary research agenda Convivencia aims at developing the intellectual and institutional infrastructure for an investigation of cross-cultural processes of knowledge transfer and transformation in different domains (the sciences, medicine, philosophy, technology, the arts, the humanities). It takes its starting point in the Mediterranean as a spatial compound inhabited by numerous different but kindred cultures. These cultures, shared in cooperative as well as conflictual, forms many fundamental properties of socio-cultural organizations, cultural expressions, and reflections about the universe, nature, and human societies.

The intention of the research project proposed for Convivencia is to investigate the role the Iberian Peninsula played in the evolution of post-ancient networks across the larger Mediterranean world together with the processes of transfer of knowledge that they entailed. It aims to compare these post-antique networks with older networks of the region in order to determine which of them persisted in which modified forms, functions, and scopes. This means that a major goal of the project will be to elucidate the role of the Greek, Phoenician, Iberian, and Roman antiquities as cultures of reference for post-antique Visigothic, Byzantine, Jewish, Islamicate, and Roman Catholic communities primarily on the Iberian Peninsula, including comparative explorations of North Africa and islands in the western and central Mediterranean.

News & Press

Article by Max Planck Society explores MPIWG Convivencia project with other Max Planck Institutes

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Projects

Convivencia Events

2016

Meeting of the Research Group

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Practical and Pragmatic Literature in Legal and Science History Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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2017

Convivencias Today: Reflections on a Historiographical Concept

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Open Access to Convivencia. People and their Representations in the Iberian World and Beyond

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Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)

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2018

Modes of Integración

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Multiculturalismo, Integración y Conflicto

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