IMC 2013: Sessions

Session 1009: A Metamorphic World: Defining the Holy Land from the Medieval to the Modern Era, c. 300-1900, I - The Latin West, c. 300-900

Sponsor:	University of Birmingham / University of Leeds
Organisers:	Liz Mylod, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Iris Shagrir, Department of History, Philosophy & Judaic Studies, Open University of Israel
Paper 1009-a	A Wisdom That Has Been Hidden: Jerome of Stridon and the Traces of the Biblical Past in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Thomas Hunt, Department of Theology & Religion, Durham University Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Theology
Paper 1009-b	The View of Jerusalem from Jarrow in the Early 8th Century (Language: English) Peter Darby, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Theology
Abstract	The development and exposure to new cultural modes generated new conceptions of the Holy Land in the Late Antique and post-Roman world. This provides a useful opportunity to explore the Holy Land through the eyes of late Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and Carolingian writers far removed from the Palestinian heartlands. This session will explore how ideas of the Holy Land were expressed and adapted in the post-roman west; why they mattered and how such concepts responded to broader questions of religious orthodoxy or cultural identity among societies on the periphery of the known world.