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 CIHAM  (UMR 5648)
 History and archeology of Christian an Muslim medieval worlds

This unit is a joint lab associating CNRS (National center of scientific research), University Lumière Lyon 2, EHESS (School of advanced studies in social sciences), ENS-LSH (School of advanced studies in humanities) and University of Avignon. It associates archeologists, historians, and literary specialists all focused on medieval times (5th to 15th century). Their
work concern Rhône-Alpes area (in France), Christian and Muslim western Mediterranean Sea belt and Middle East.
It is divided in 6 main topics :
-    People, habitat and spatial organization
-    Knowledge, technologies and material culture
-    Power, administration and pragmatic writings
-    Religion, area, culture and communication
-    Genesis, structuring and traffic of writings and languages in medieval Romania
-    Money and trade
 And 2 transverse topics:
 -    Mil. Ord (Military Orders)Diccionary of Military orders
 -    Nuova Cronica, Giovanni Villani chronicle's translation

Website : http://ciham.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/