IMC 2009: Sessions

Session 1520: Heresy and Orthodoxy in Late Antiquity

Sponsor:	Wolfson College, University of Oxford / Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Organiser:	Maria Kouroumali, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	David Gwynn, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Paper 1520-a	Germanic Heresy: Late-Stage Arianism and the Germanic Peoples (Language: English) Brendan Wolfe, Wolfson College, University of Oxford Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life
Paper 1520-b	Heretic or Orthodox?: Justinian's Theology Revisited (Language: English) Maria Kouroumali, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life
Paper 1520-c	'They are the most treacherous of people': Religious Difference in Accounts of Three Berber Revolts in Al-Andalus, 8th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Nicola Clarke, Wolfson College, University of Oxford Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic, Religious Life
Abstract	The session will examine the question of heresy by looking at three different periods and subjects within the Late Roman and Byzantine Empire: the connection between religious belief and cultural features in the Germanic peoples; the theological views and policy of Justinian in 6th-century Constantinople and the variation in Islamic beliefs through the accounts of Arabic sources in Medieval Spain.