Making Christian Landscapes - Conference

Making Christian Landscapes: Conversion & Consolidation in Early Medieval Europe. Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, as a result of the conversion to Christianity and the development of ecclesiastical structures during the early medieval period. This interdisciplinary conference will seek to illuminate this process through case studies of particular landscapes. Speakers will consider a range of settlement and ritual/burial sites as well as territorial divisions and routeways in order to explore where and how people chose, or were obliged, to live, worship and be buried and how this changed over time. Some papers will focus on the initial process of conversion while others will also consider changes in the nature of people's relationships with ecclesiastical sites and structures over the course of the period.

The conference forms part of the INSTAR-funded Making Christian Landscapes Project and is the 2012 annual conference of the Society for Church Archaeology. It is organised by the Archaeology Department, University College Cork, the School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle, and the Society for Church Archaeology.

You can download the Conference poster here.

This conference is sponsored by the Heritage Council and the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Environment Fund.

Source: The Heritage Council - Making Christian Landscapes - Conference

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