IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1516: The Annona, Charity, and the Materiality of Markets in Late Antiquity, I
Thursday 7 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Gregor Kalas, College of Architecture & Design, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michele R. Salzman, Department of History, University of California, Riverside |
| Paper 1516-a | The Economies of Giving?: Methods, Models, and Material Cultures of Charitable Consumption (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 1516-b | Feed the Masses: Some Thoughts on Food Distribution in Late Antiquity and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - Secular |
| Paper 1516-c | The Changing Landscape of Rome's Tiber Markets in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Trade |
| Abstract | The panel focuses on the late antique sponsors of food distribution by examining those who set up inscriptions or sought other honors as the donors of civic charity. The session focuses on the officials who managed public assistance, including the prefects of Rome, the lay benefactors of Christian charity, and the prefects of the annona, the ancient food dole that underwent important post-classical transformations and the laws concerning these changes. Physical evidence will feature prominently with discussions analyzing public inscriptions, urban markets as spaces of civic euergetism, and the reuse of ancient buildings as diaconiae or Christian charity centers. |