IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 337: Remembering and Forgetting the Ancient City, III: Urban Myths
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| 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/Chairs: | Javier Martínez-Jiménez, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Respondent: | Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 337-a | Remembering the First City: Freculf of Lisieux and the End of Innocence (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 337-b | Remembering the Rose Red City: Pilgrimage, Storytelling, and the Shaping of Byzantine Petra (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Biblical Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| 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 third and concluding session considers how ancient ideas of the city were adapted and reused. Sam Ottewill-Soulsby examines the Carolingian use of ancient authors to support the biblical narrative of the first city. In the subsequent paper, Marlene Whiting develops the importance of myths of the past to a specific case study, Petra, considering how very different urban communities used an imagined history. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill gives concluding remarks for all three sessions. |