5th – 7th December 2017Yad Yizhak Ben Zvi, Jerusalem

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PILGRIMAGE AFTER THE BYZANTINE PERIODModerator: Amiqam Elad

14.30 Anna Gutgarts (Tel-Aviv University)Urban Zoning and Pilgrimage in Frankish Jerusalem

15.00 Tawfiq Da’adli (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)»Sacred« Paths around al-Quds.

15.30 Max Ritter (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz)Presence of Byzantine Pilgrims in Jerusalem from the Umayyad to the Fatimid period (7th–10th centuries)

16.00 Robert Schick (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz)Muslim Pilgrims to Jerusalem in the Ottoman Period

16.30 Discussion

17.00 Closing Remarks

7th December

Closed Visit to the Judean DesertPilgrimage Sites for Participants

PILGRIMAGE AFTER THE BYZANTINE PERIODModerator: Amiqam Elad

7th December

THE VISUAL EXPRESSION AND EPIGRAPHY OF PILGRIMAGEModerator: Uzi Dahari 11.35 Andreas Pülz (Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Antike, Austrian Academy of Sciences)Considerations on the Iconography and Distribution of the so-called Ampoules of Asia Minor

12.05 Anastasia Keshman-Wasserman (Tel Aviv University)Mary the Doorkeeper – On the History of the Miraculous Image of the Holy Virgin in the Holy Sepulchre Church

12.35 Leah Di Segni (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Epigraphic Evidence for Pilgrimage

13.05 Daniel Reynolds (University of Birmingham) Virtuous vandals? Graffiti and Christian Pilgrimage in Byzantine Palaestina and Arabia (500-630)

13.35 Discussion

13.50–14.30 LUNCH

THE VISUAL EXPRESSION AND EPIGRAPHY OF PILGRIMAGEModerator: Uzi Dahari

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

VenueYad Yizhak Ben Zvi14 Ibn GabirolJerusalem 9107601Israel

Venue

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5th December

9.00 Assembly, Registration and Coffee

9.30 Greetings Representative of Yad Ben-Zvi

Falko Daim (on behalf of Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz)

Claudia Rapp (on behalf of Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)

Benjamin Z. Kedar (on behalf of the Organising Committee)

PILGRIMAGE IN HAGIOGRAPHY AND TRAVELLERS ACCOUNTS - IModerator: Benjamin Z. Kedar

9.45 Claudia Rapp (Universität Wien & Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)From the Holy Mountain to the Holy City and Back: The Movement of Monks and Manuscripts in the Early Byzantine Period

10.15 Johannes Pahlitzsch (Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz)Syria and Palestine in Byzantine Hagiography of the 11th & 12th Centuries

10.45 Yamit Rachman-Schrire (Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem) Dominicans Writing the Holy Land: Jerusalem, Europe and Beyond

5th December

PILGRIMAGE IN HAGIOGRAPHY AND TRAVELLERS ACCOUNTS - IModerator: Benjamin Z. Kedar

16.50 Discussion

17.05 End of Day I

6th December

9.00 ASSEMBLY AND COFFEE THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LANDModerator: Claudia Rapp

9.30 Basema Hamarneh (University of Vienna)Between Hagiography and Archaeology: Pilgrimage and Monastic Communities on the Banks of the River Jordan

10.00 Joseph Patrich (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)Arculf's Church of St. Mary in the Complex of the Holy Sepulchre. Location and Cult

10.30 Jon Seligman (Israel Antiquities Authority)The Economy of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Byzantine Period

11.00 Discussion

11.15 COFFEE BREAK

6th December

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LANDModerator: Claudia Rapp

FROM THE CAUCASUS TO JERUSALEM AND BACKModerator: Prof. Michael Stone

14.15 Emilio Bonfiglio & Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)From Ararat to Mount Zion: Armenian Pilgrimage and Presence in the Medieval Holy Land

14.45 Yana Tchekhanovets (Israel Antiquities Authority)Georgian and Armenian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land

15.15 Discussion

15.30 COFFEE BREAK

JEWISH PILGRIMAGEModerator: Joseph Patrich

15.50 Ossnat Sharon (Haifa University)Space and Self in the 15th Century Pilgrimage Narrative of Meshulam of Volterra

16.20 Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (Haifa University)The Pilgrimage in the Late Antique Jewish World

FROM THE CAUCASUS TO JERUSALEM AND BACKModerator: Prof. Michael Stone

JEWISH PILGRIMAGEModerator: Joseph Patrich

11.15 Discussion

11.30 COFFEE BREAK

PILGRIMAGE IN TRAVELLERS ACCOUNTS Moderator: Johannes Pahlitzsch

11.50 Andreas Külzer (Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)Pilgrims on their Way in the Holy Land: Roads and Routes According to Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Travel Accounts

12.20 Orit Ramon (Open University of Israel)Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 16th Century Czech Traveller's Writing

12.50 Rangar Cline (University of Oklahoma)«The Spring from which Moses Gave Water to the Children of Israel still Flows» Water and Proof in Early Christian Pilgrimage Narratives

13.20 Discussion

13.35–14.15LUNCH

PILGRIMAGE IN TRAVELLERS ACCOUNTS Moderator: Johannes Pahlitzsch