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The RELMIN project 
RELMIN is a five-year research project (2010-2015) created by John Tolan, professor of history at the Université de Nantes. RELMIN mobilizes an international team based at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Ange-Guépin in Nantes. The team consists of four post-doctoral researchers, two doctoral students, an administrator, and a web designer, and is periodically augmented with invited researchers; there are also a number of collaborators. RELMIN is building a database of normative texts concerning the legal status of religious minorities in medieval Christian and Islamic societies. It routinely coordinates academic events, with the goal of initiating new lines of thought and research on the problems posed by interreligious cohabitation. It has created a collection with Brepols, designed to publish the results of its research as well as the research of other specialists in the subject.
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The RELMIN database is online !
 The database consists of original texts (Latin, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, etc.), translations into English and French, notes and commentaries, and a bibliography. We hope that it becomes an important tool for research concerning the history of European and Mediterranean laws about pagan, Jewish, Muslim, and Christian minorities, and the history of interfaith relations.
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In brief
 January 26th-28th 2012: John Tolan presented a paper at the opening conference of the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forshung project "Visions of Community: Comparative Approaches to Ethnicity, Region and Empire in Christianity, Islam and Buddhism (400-1600 CE)" at the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Vienna.
February 8th-9th 2012: John Tolan presented a keynote address “Exoticism and otherness: Medieval ethnography on the genesis of religious divergence”, at the conference “Locating Religions: Contact, Diversity and Translocality”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
27 February 2012: Capucine Nemo-Pekelman delivered a paper on “Le législateur chrétien des IVe et Ve siècles a-t-il persécuté les juifs?” in the seminar hosted by Sylvie-Anne Golberg: “Etudes juives. Recherches en cours” at the EHESS.
Laurence Foschia visited the École française d'Athènes from 7 to 25 February 2012 for bibliographical research, and to meet with Alexandre Farnoux, director of the EFA. From 18 to 26 March 2012, Josep-Xavier Muntané undertook a mission to Barcelona, to compile documents and studies on the Catalan Corts and the provincial councils of the Tarraconese, preserved in the Library of Catalonia and in the Archives of the Crown of Aragon. From 19 to 23 March 2012, Ahmed Oulddali undertook a research mission in Morocco. He was able to work with the documentary sources concerning al-Andalus and the Maghreb kept at the National Library of the Maroc Kingdom (Rabat), and at the Fondation King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud (Casablanca). On 20 March 2012 a round table was held at the University of Paris IV on Capucine Nemo-Pekelman’s book, Rome et ses citoyens juifs. IVe-Ve siècles (Honoré Champion, 2010), presided by Mireille Habas-Lebel, with the participation of Marie-Françoise Baslez, Emmanuelle Chevreau, Jean-Michel Carrié. From 22 to 28 March 2012, Nadezda Koryakina visited Marseille to research the Archives of Bouches-du-Rhône for Latin sources from the 14th century on the Jews of Provence. From 26 to 29 March 2012, Youna Masset undertook a mission to Catalonia to find Latin sources about Catalan Jews, in the archiepiscopal archives of Tarragona, regional archives of Montblanc and Olot. On 13-14 April 2012, Adam Bishop attended the conference « Contextualising the Fifth Crusade » at the University of Kent, Canterbury (Angleterre). On 18 April 2012, John Tolan held a workshop entitled "1290 and all that: Edward I’s expulsion of the Jews in its European Context" at the Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of Saint Andrews (Scotland). |
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