TTT Research Team
Institute of Islamic Studies
McGill University
3485 McTavish Street
853 Sherbrooke Street W.
Montreal, Quebec,
Canada H3A 1Y1
(phone) (514) 398-6077
(fax) (514) 398-6731
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Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures

The McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation and Transformation in Medieval Cultures brings together scholars in the fields of history, philosophy, literature, religious studies, Islamic studies, and Jewish studies to explore the processes by which medieval Judaism, Christianity, and Islam both re-shaped the legacies of the ancient world, and creatively appropriated each others' reshaped versions of that legacy. Our goal is to discover and articulate the processes by which cultural forms were transmitted through time from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and across geographical and cultural space between medieval cultures, translated (literally and metaphorically) into the idiom of the recipient culture, and transformed into new cultural productions. To that end, we will organize thematic workshops, carry out collaborative research projects, and launch a methodological and conceptual prolegomena for a new intellectual history of the medieval world based on these processes.