Living and dying in the cloister. Monastic life from the 5th to the 11th centuries: 23rd IRCLAMA International Symposium in Zadar, Croatia
Monastic life investigated through monk’s vision is the perspective of the 23rd IRCLAMA International Symposium that took place in Zadar, Croatia, from June 1st to 4th 2016. The meeting intended to penetrate deeply, through the study of space and time of the monastic asceticism, into one of the fundamental structures of development of medieval society between East and West. History, art and architecture are the primary tools by which, through the words spoken and written by the monks, are examined the forms of the monastic complexes, from late antiquity archetypes of Christian Europe in the middle Ages.
The colloquium gathered over 120 specialists from all over Europe, the States and Canada, with 65 given papers by 74 specialists in the topic.
The colloquium was organized by IRCLAMA, in close cooperation with the CROMART project, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation, and the University of Zadar, being supported also by the Università cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano), Centro Studi Longobardi.