IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 137: Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, I: The Physical City
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | ERC Project 'The Impact of the Ancient City' |
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| Organisers: | Javier Martínez-Jiménez, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Respondent: | Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 137-a | Trier as 'Roma Secunda': The Roman Past of Trier in the Long 10th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 137-b | Dismantling Roman Pasts: New Monuments and New Identities at the End of the Early Middle Ages in Southern Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 137-c | The Post-Classical Life of an Athenian Suburban Precinct: Radical Appropriation or Multi-Layered Simultaneity? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | The relationship of the medieval city with the ancient city has received much debate in recent years. The theme of 'memory' offers new possibilities for considering how medieval people understood their cities in the context of those that had come before, whether by remembering them, or choosing to forget them. This first session is concerned with the importance of the physical remains of the ancient city as sources of urban memory. Lenneke Van Raaij examines the impact of the remains of the Roman past for communities in 10th-century Trier. Javier Martínez Jiménez addresses the manner in which the dismantling of Roman structures in Southern Gaul reflected the rise of new urban identities. Elizabeth Key Fowden then uses the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens to consider memory over the longue durée, delving through pagan, Christian, and Muslim responses to the past. |