As part of preparations for the opening of MiQua, the archaeological museum in Cologne, this workshop, held December 2-4, 2019, brought the MiQua team and various scholars to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem during which we discussed the intersection of material and textual sources and considered a variety of approaches to presenting Jewish-Christian relations in the medieval city to modern museumgoers.

Prof. Adam Kosto of Columbia University led a two day intensive workshop, examining documentary practices in Medieval sources. Focusing on testamntary documents, Prof. Kosto presented the documentary practices in Medieval Catalonia, and how such documents were constructed and created. The workshop continued to analyze the testamentary documents, demonstrating the possibilities they present in learning about Medieval power structures, material culture, providing an opportunity to reach beyond elite practices and circumstances into a greater variety of Medieval people.