Introduction

  • Luciano Gallinari CNR-ISEM
  • Ali Ahmed El-Sayed Damanhour University
  • Heba Mahmoud Saad Alexandria University
Keywords: Medieval History, Cultural Heritage

Abstract

This issue of RiMe, with which the Journal celebrates its (first) 10 years of existence, is once again, a Special Issue. In this case, it is dedicated to the topic of relations between Italy and Egypt and, more generally, between the Western World and the Islamic one in a chronological span that goes from the High Middle Ages to the beginning of the Modern Age, a theme at the heart of the Bilateral Project ASRT (Egypt) / CNR (Italy) "History of Peace-building: peaceful relations between East and West (11th - 15th Century)", financed for the years 2016 - 2017, whose scientific managers were, for the Egyptian side, Prof. Ali Ahmed Mohamed El-Sayed, from the University of Damanhour, and Dr. Luciano Gallinari, from the CNR-Istituto di Storia dell’Europa Mediterranea, for the Italian one.

Published
2019-01-04
Section
Introduction