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IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 1525: Caput Urbium, III: Rome in Insular Reflections

Thursday 17 July 2003, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:The Queen's College, University of Oxford
Organiser:Helen Gittos, The Queen's College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Department of Fine Arts, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware
Paper 1525-aIreland and Rome in the 7th Century
(Language: English)
Charles Doherty, Department of Early Irish History, University College Dublin
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Law, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 1525-bAuthority and Rome from an Irish Perspective
(Language: English)
Damian Bracken, School of History, University College Cork
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Law, Mentalities, Social History
Paper 1525-cRome of the Martyrs
(Language: English)
Alan Thacker, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Social History
Abstract

The session looks at relations between Rome and Ireland, and Rome and Anglo Saxon England: especially concepts of Roman authority and the insular cults of Roman martyrs.