IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1224: East and West (c. 400-600), I: A Literary Approach
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen |
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| Organiser: | Steffen Patzold, Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen |
| Paper 1224-a | Plunder in Gregory of Tours's Histories (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1224-b | Images of Goths in Gregory of Tours's Histories (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Paper 1224-c | Philosophers and Their Cloak: Eunapios of Sardis and the Social Background of Paideia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Greek, Philosophy |
| Abstract | The three papers of this session present current research projects of the members of a Graduate School at the University of Tübingen, which analyses the process of cultural and spatial disintegration of the Roman Empire during the 5th and 6th century. The three papers assume that a cultural 'dislocation' took place around 500. The speakers – two historians and one philologist – will analyse two important historical sources (Gregory of Tours, Eunapios of Sardis) as literary texts and as vestiges of the 'dislocation' between the Eastern and the Western parts of the Empire. |