IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1308: Texts and Identities, IV: Appropriating Roman Models
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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Organisers: | E. T. Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
Moderator/Chair: | Walter Pohl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien |
Paper 1308-a | From Africa to Spain: The Poetry of Dracontius and the Redaction of Eugenius of Toledo (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
Paper 1308-b | Coins as Texts: Visigothic Coinage and the Byzantine Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Numismatics, Political Thought |
Paper 1308-c | Appropriating Pre-Christian Religious Sites in Late Antique Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Hagiography, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session's focus is on expressions of political, cultural, and religious identity in the late antique world, from the Mediterranean to the British isles. The three papers address the adoption and transformation of Roman models, and their integration into the political discourse within the barbarian kingdoms. Mark Tizzoni and Danielle Donaldson analyze how texts and coins travelled across a closely entangled post-imperial world, while Michael Garcia's paper addresses the tension between pre-Christian past and post-Roman world in late antique Britain. Through different strategies of appropriation, texts and artefacts were transformed according to their new contexts. |