Renata
Salvarani

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The relations between Christians, Jews and Muslims lived in the Middle Ages their most complex passages. Contemporary identities have their roots in those centuries

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REthinking the Madaba MAP in the Third Millennium

REthinking the Madaba MAP in the Third Millennium

  The Madaba Map is a great mosaic floor representing the Christian cities of the Middle East before the islamization, a sort of picture of the area from Mediterranean to Arabic Desert, from Lebanon to Nile’s delta at the end of 6th century CE. The land promised...

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Medieval Christianity: identity and extraneousness

Medieval Christianity: identity and extraneousness

Can we speak of Christian Middle Ages? Of an age so deeply oriented in a religious sense as to assume its connotation in a prevalent way? The question has always been posed: the very effort to answer has helped to define that Age, highlighting both its contours and...

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Minoranze cristiane in Medio Oriente: resistenza e resilienza 

Minoranze cristiane in Medio Oriente: resistenza e resilienza 

La resilienza è la capacità di risalire, di riemergere alla vita e alla luce dopo essere scomparsi, affogati, inghiottiti in un gorgo di dolore, paura, disperazione. In psicologia è l'insieme dei meccanismi che permette a un individuo di rinascere dopo un lutto, una...

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Religion and Violence

Religion and Violence

The burning of a heretic, the dismemberment of an apostate’s body, the flogging of a woman in a town square, the pogrom of a whole community, a liturgy around the walls of a city before a siege, the ritual bathing of crusaders in the Jordan river after the conquest of...

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