IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1211: Forming Christian Authority in Late Antiquity, I: Bureaucrats and Bishops
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Oxford Medieval Studies Programme |
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| Organiser: | Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Paper 1211-a | Elite Competition in Ecclesiastical Patronage at Constantinople, c. 400 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety |
| Paper 1211-b | The Christianisation of Political Service in the Late Antique West (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety, Political Thought, Theology |
| Paper 1211-c | All Episcopal Politics are Local: Strategies of Creating Communities in Late Antique Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | The Christianisation of the late antique Mediterranean presented both opportunities and challenges for those who had to project their authority within state structures, ecclesiastical institutions and society at large. This session considers how officeholders ('secular' and 'ecclesiastical') sought to fashion distinctly Christian modes of authority. Individual papers will examine how courtiers and bureaucrats in early 5th-century Constantinople and the 5th- and 6th-century West sought to represent their prestige and authority according to Christian (and often decidedly ecclesiastical) cultural norms, and, contrariwise, the strategies used by bishops in 5th-century Gaul to claim a wider remit over their urban communities. |