IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 110: Approaching the Byzantine Family, I: The Roman Background and the Christian Effect
Monday 7 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham Margaret E. Mullett, Institute of Byzantine Studies, Queen's University, Belfast Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
Paper 110-a | The Historiography of the Roman Family (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Social History |
Paper 110-b | Marriage and Divorce in Justinian's Novels (Language: English) |
Paper 110-c | Saints and their Families in Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Social History |
Abstract | This is the first of three sessions on the Byzantine Family, following up the sessions held in 2007. Tim Parkin and Mary Harlow will focus on the Roman family, and consider the extent to which assumptions and generalisations about it may have been skewed by a few select literary sources, such as Cicero and Pliny. Kristina Sessa will examine how ideas about property ownership and domestic authority were affected by Christianity in late antique Rome. Leslie Brubaker will anaylse hagiography for evidence of what constituted the ideal Byzantine family. |