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The "International Medieval Archaeology Course Sefarad", framed in the programming of the International University of Mar-Campus Mare Nostrum be held in Lorca from 9 to 12 September, and aims to provide specialist training and theoretical practice on the material culture of the Jewish minority who lived in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages (V-XV centuries).
This initiative is the first specialized course provides a comprehensive theoretical and training, especially, practice on medieval archeology of the Jewish minority in the Iberian peninsula, students and archeology specialists trained in other historical contexts, or from countries familiar with material culture of Jews in other scenarios.
The course will be held in six theory sessions five workshops that will give attendees an updated list of the most relevant aspects of material reality of peninsular Jews overview.
Its aim is to provide students with tools that allow to identify and analyze those aspects of medieval material culture that may be considered distinguishing features of Jewish communities during the medieval period.
This offers lectures by some of the best specialists in Archaeology of the Jewish minority in the Middle Ages and workshops.
Sessions will focus on the characterization of religious spaces, the analysis of funerary rituals and the classification and interpretation of furniture.
The exceptional archaeological find of late medieval Jewry Lorca Castle and the fifteenth century synagogue, will be the scene in which the practical contents, which include working with original archaeological materials (ceramics, metals, glass) and the analysis will be developed buildings and archaeological contexts in situ.
The course is led by Jorge Alejandro Eiroa Rodríguezy students who enroll are entitled to 2.5 free credits or ECTS-credit CRAU.
Source: UMU
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