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This is a course organized by the Universidad del Mar taking place until next September 12 in the Culture Center of the City.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, this morning reported on the conclusion of a new forum for discussion about the Jewish contribution in the medieval period that takes place at the Cultural Center.
The event, called "International Medieval Archaeology Course Sefarad" has started this morning and runs until Friday.
Martínez Navarro stated that "the discovery of the medieval synagogue located on the side of the castle of our city, along with the remarkable Jewish Quarter Annex, has been a milestone in the history of both Lorca and the Hebrew stage. Since our town we are working to exploit and disseminate to all levels the real treasure we have. Indeed in recent years it has completed a significant battery of measures in this regard, as is the case with the full recovery of the synagogue in question the establishment of guided tours for all tourists and interested in Lorca also know them days and social science and even a new festival of contemporary Jewish culture, "Jewish Festival" visits.
The Councillor for Culture explained that the aim of this course is to provide students with the tools required to identify and analyze those aspects of medieval culture that may be considered distinguishing features of Jewish communities in the Islamic and Christian contexts of the Iberian Peninsula during the medieval period.
This initiative is the first specialized course provides a comprehensive theoretical and training, in particular, the practice of medieval archeology of the Jewish minority in Iberia students and archeology specialists trained in other historical contexts, or from countries familiar with material culture of Jews in other scenarios.
This faculty is comprised of specialists not only in the region of Murcia but from different parts of Spain as well as experts from Syracuse, New York or Paris.
The course, which will take place in several theoretical five workshops that will give attendees an updated list of the most relevant aspects of material reality of peninsular Jews overview sessions, including 5 hours of activities covering visits to the historic town, the medieval walls and castle, led by Andrés Martínez, Director of the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca that will reveal the archaeological and heritage tourism.
The mayor reported that the course is intended not only to specialists in Medieval Archaeology, but mainly to students, graduates and university graduates in history, professional archaeologists and cultural heritage managers.
From a broader perspective, it can also be of great interest to students, graduates and graduates of different degrees related to the Social Sciences and Humanities, and History of Art, Humanities, Geography and Anthropology and of course for all concerned in the subject studied.
The course offers both theoretical and practical, on the material culture of the Jewish minority who lived in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages (ss. V XV) specialized training.
The aim is to provide students with the tools required to identify and analyze those aspects of medieval material culture that may be considered distinguishing features of Jewish communities.
For this, a series of lectures will be combined with various workshops.
Sessions will focus on the characterization of religious spaces, the analysis of funerary rituals or classification and interpretation of the liturgical and domestic furniture.
In addition, finding outstanding late medieval Jewry Lorca Castle and synagogue are the ideal setting for the development of practical content, which will include working with original archaeological materials (ceramics, metals, glass) and analysis of buildings and context archaeological site.
Finally, Sandra Martinez said that the course is not only designed as a field of education and training in archeology, it also aims to become a space for cultural dialogue on common issues and the identification and interpretation of Jewish archaeological contexts in mostly Christian or Islamic historical societies.
On the other hand, aims to reach a stage set for debate on the problems arising from the enhancement of the cultural heritage of medieval Jewish minorities and dissemination.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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