IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1520: Material Wealth?: Christian Responses from Late Antique and Carolingian Literature
Thursday 14 July 2011, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Helen Kaufmann, Oriel College, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Carole E. Newlands, Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Paper 1520-a | Sacra Fames: Poverty in the Monastic Vitae by Athanasius and Jerome (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1520-b | How to Praise a Villa: Sidonius Apollinaris and Venantius Fortunatus (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Pagan Religions |
| Abstract | In this session the question of material wealth will be explored in three case studies from late antique and Carolingian Christian literature, each combining the discussion of the topic in (a) particular text(s) with questions of the literary tradition. The first paper will investigate the ways in which two landmark Christian hagiographers used lack of material wealth in the presentations of their monastic protagonists. In the second paper, descriptions of royal lavishness in Christian epics such as Ermold the Black's In Honour of Emperor Louis will be read against their classical models as a way of expressing power and status. Finally, the last paper will focus on the question how some Christian poets describe and praise 'villae' in view of Statius' influential model. |