Specific questions about the conference can be directed to the conference organisers, Dr Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo and Dr Jamie Wood at the conference email address smmconference2015@gmail.com.
The theme of the conference is «Law, Custom and Ritual in the Medieval Mediterranean» and the keynotes will be delivered by Professor Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid: «Obedience to the ruler in the Medieval Islamic West: legal and historical perspectives») and Dr Andrew Marsham (University of Edinburgh: «Rituals of accession in early Islam: a comparative perspective»).Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for sessions should be emailed to the conference email address: smmconference2015@gmail.com by the end of the day on Saturday 18 October 2014.We welcome both individual papers and panel proposals (please, fill in this form).
