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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
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-aFrom Africa to Spain: The Poetry of Dracontius and the Redaction of Eugenius of Toledo
(Language: English)
Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought
Paper 1308-bCoins as Texts: Visigothic Coinage and the Byzantine Empire
(Language: English)
Danielle Donaldson, Trinity College, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Economics - General, Numismatics, Political Thought
Paper 1308-cAppropriating Pre-Christian Religious Sites in Late Antique Britain
(Language: English)
Michael Garcia, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
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.