V Seminario JIMENA
Spiritual Crossroads: Between Dogma and Heresy in the Medieval Mediterranean
10-11 de febrero de 2026
Facultad de Geografía e Historia
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Programa
10 DE FEBRERO/FEBRUARY 10TH
9.00-9.15 Recepción de asistentes/Seminar Registration
9.15-9.30 Inauguración/Opening remarks
Keynote Lecture I
9.30-10.15 Carlos de Ayala Martínez (UAM). Apocalíptica y confrontación con el islam: el Tultusceptru y los fragmentos rotenses del Pseudo-Metodio (s. IX-X).
10.15-10.40 Debate/Discussion
10.40-10.50 Descanso/Break
Session 1. Literacy and Religion, Popular and Scholarly Approaches
10.50-11.20 Maribel Fierro (CSIC-ILC) Scholars and ‘Heresy’ in the Medieval Islamic West.
11.20-11.40 Catalina Tressler (Universidad de los Andes) Literacy and Written Culture in the Waldensian Heresy (12th–13th Centuries).
11.40-12.10 Carlos Martínez Carrasco (UCO) Tradiciones apocalípticas en el maldito siglo VII: de la sublevación de Focas a la expansión del islam.
12.10-12.40 Debate/Discussion
12.40-12.50 Descanso/Break
Session 2. Shaping Female Sanctity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
12.50-13.10 Thaís de Almeida Rodrigues (UNESP) La santificación de las mujeres constantinianas entre la Antigüedad Tardía y el imaginario medieval.
13.10-13.30 Eylül Çetinbaş (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations – Bilkent University) Writing the Sacred Feminine: Hagiography, Cultural Memory, and the Making of Sanctity in the Medieval Mediterranean.
13.30-13.50 Debate/Discussion
13.50-16.00 Descanso comida/Seminar Lunch Break
Session 3. Architectonic Configurations of Heresy, Heterodoxy and Dogma
16.00-16.20 María Orduña Cuevas (UAM) Monofisismo, santoral y arquitectura: veneración de santos e iglesias centralizadas en el Oriente medieval.
16.20-16.40 Valentina Schiavon (Pontifical University Antonianum) A xylòtroulos for Santa Fosca in Torcello and the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A new hypothesis.
16.40-17.00 María Gángara Jiménez (UCM) Espacio, memoria y poder: el simbolismo de las capillas episcopales en la catedral de Burgos.
17.00-17.30 Debate/Discussion
17.30-17.45 Descanso/Break
Session 4. Perspectives on Medieval Hagiographic Traditions
17.45-18.05 Nana Mrevlishvili, Tinatin Jikurashvili and Sophio Guliashvili (The University of Georgia) Between Translation andTransformation: «The Life of Theodora of Alexandria» in OldGeorgian Hagiography.
18.05-18.25 Juan Manuel Carmona Pérez (UAM) Tensions between Official Doctrine and Folk Religion in 13th-Century Castile: The Miracles of Santo Domingo de Silos for the Redemption of Captives as a Case Study.
18.25-18.45 Debate/Discussion
11 DE FEBRERO/FEBRUARY 11TH
Session 5. Circulation of Artifacts and Images between Byzantium and the Latin West
9.00-9.30 Lucrezia Sozzè (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM) Byzantine Artifacts in Late Medieval Italy: Display and Liturgical Practices.
9.30-9.50 Georgii Titov (Moscow State University) The Visual Transmission of Early Monastic Exempla in the art of Italian Trecento and the Post-Byzantine world.
9.50-10.10 Debate/Discussion
10.10-10.20 Descanso/Break
Session 6. Byzantium and the Latin West: Religious Encounters and Perceptions
10.20-10.50 Savvas Neocleous (Cyprus Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth) Spiritual Crossroads: Latin Perceptions of Greek Christianity in the Long Twelfth Century.
10.50-11.10 Pablo Méndez Gallardo (UCM) The «Eastern Question» in Castile: Faith, Power and Perception from Romania to Iberia.
11.10-11.30 Debate/Discussion
11.30-11.45 Descanso/Break
Session 7. Circulation Networks in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond
11.45-12.05 Pablo Rodríguez Sánchez (Trinity College Dublin) “Hominem […] crine deformen”: Saint Martin of Tours´ “hairstyle” and its value as evidence for the saint´s role between the Mediterranean and the Insular World.
12.05-12.25 Robin Gatel (Trinity College Dublin) A discreet presence? The circulation of Saint Augustine’s De Haeresibus in Italy during the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
12.25-12.50 Zeynep Ece Bakala (University of Lincoln) “Por fazer romaria pug’em meu coraçom”: Women’s Pilgrimage and Sociocultural Encounters in Thirteenth-Century Iberia.
12.50-13.20 Debate/Discussion
13.20-16.00 Descanso comida/Seminar Lunch Break
Session 8. Images, Doctrine and Heterodoxy through the Senses
16.00-16.20 Manuel Hernández Ortega (UCM) La pervivencia del rito sacrificial entre las comunidades cristianas tardoantiguas (ss. III-VI): un aporte desde la imagen y la cultura visual.
16.20-16.40 Rebeca Rodríguez Ginés (UAM) Taumaturgia y fe. Un preludio de la virtud del tacto en las pinturas murales de las catacumbas.
16.40-17.00 Jeffrey P. A. Berland (Universität Tübingen) The Proclamation of an Iconoclast Orthodoxy: Envisioning Christ at the Chalkê (ca. 815).
17.00-17.30 Debate/Discussion
17.30-17.40 Descanso/Break
Session 9. Constructing Sacred Spaces in the Medieval Mediterranean
17.40-18.00 Anastasia Liakhovich (University of Warsaw) From Topos to Theophany: Pilgrimage, Vision, and the Making of Sacred Space in Byzantine and Medieval Armenian Hagiography.
18.00-18.20 Gözde Demir Merzi (Istanbul Technical University) New Evidence from Binbirkilise–Değle: The ‘Sacred Rock’ Marked with Crosses, Open-Air Worship, and the Shaping of a Byzantine Pilgrimage Landscape.
18.20-18.40 Debate/Discussion
18.40-18.50 Descanso/Break
Keynote lecture II
18.50-19.35 John H. Arnold (University of Cambridge) The Social Dynamics of Priests and Laity in Southern France, between c. 1000 and c. 1300.
19.35-19.55 Debate/Discussion
19.55-20.10 Clausura, sorteo de libro y examen para la obtención del crédito/Closing remarks.
