The Italian Cultural Institute and the Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum, on the occasion of the exhibition “Universal Jerusalem” (December 5 2018- May 192019) in collaboration with the Archivio Provinciale Aracoeli-Storico dei Frati Minori della Provincia di S. Bonaventura, the Pontificia Università Antonianum Rome, the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Gerusalemme and the Centre d’études médiévales de l’Université de Montréal, is pleased to announce the conference “Kingdoms d’Outremer: cultures and languages of the crossed states in the Holy Land in the Middle Ages” by Alessio Marziali Peretti.
Monday April 15, 2019, 7:30pm
Marguerite-Bourgeoys Museum
400, rue Saint-Paul Est
Vieux-Montréal
Info 514 282-8670
Following the first crusade, Europeans occupy several regions of Syria and Palestine. In 1099, they established real “Latin” or “free” states in the Holy Land, political entities whose establishment deeply marked the imaginary of Christianity for centuries. Until 1291, date of the fall of St. John of Acre (Akka today) and the end of the cross experience overseas, Europeans continue to land in the Holy Land, bringing with them their culture, their language, their sensitivity and their art. For two centuries, the Kingdoms of Outremer is a space for exchange (and often conflict) between different parts of Christian Europe and the peoples of the Middle East. Favored by the meeting of people and different worlds, the cultural and artistic production of the Kingdoms of Outremer strikes again today for its singularity. By directing the eye towards its modern heritage, we will focus on the products of this multiculturalism, from language to architecture, to literature and the art of illumination.
Alessio Marziali Peretti is a PhD student at the University of Montreal’s Département des littératures de langue française, where he deals with the dissemination of French literature in Italy at the end of the 13th century and, in particular, the Pisa-Genoa axis. He trained as a novel philologist at the “La Sapienza” University of Rome and his fields of interest are the poetry of the troubadours, the Italian and French female Petrarchan lyric and cognitive philology. He is the curator of the exhibition “Jérusalem Universelle – Universal Jerusalem”, currently exhibited at the Musée Marguerite-Bourgeoys in Montreal (December 5, 2018-May 19, 2019).