IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 610: Social Networks of Clergy in Late Antiquity, II
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Project 'Presbyters in the Late Antique West', Uniwersytet Warszawski |
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| Organiser: | Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Hunter, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kentucky |
| Paper 610-a | Friends and Enemies: The Female Relationships of Late Antique Clerics in Exile (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 610-b | Eating with Heretics: Nicene Clergy toward Homoian Communities in the Successor Kingdoms (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 610-c | Managing Expectations in a Western Ascetic Network: Augustine, Paulinus of Nola, Sulpicius Severus (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 610-d | Open Courtesy and Hidden Rivalry in Salutatory Formulas of Clerics' Letters in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Social History |
| Abstract | Late antique clerics did not act in a social void. They had friends, partners, allies, patrons, and enemies. These two sessions will examine relations which linked bishops, presbyters, and deacons with lay people, women, heretics, monks, and other members of the clergy, in different regions of Christendom in c. 300-600. While analysing normative texts, narratives, theological treatises, inscriptions, and particularly letters the speakers will seek to explain the range, strength, and character of personal and institutional contacts as well as the mechanisms which helped to establish, maintain, and sometimes break them up. |