IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 536: Save the Date!: Conflicting Ideas about the Quality of Time in Memory and for Prognosis, I
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Uta Heil, Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Christliche Archäologie und Kirchliche Kunst, Universität Wien |
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Moderator/Chair: | Hans-Werner Goetz, Historisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg |
Paper 536-a | Save the Date!: The Sunday between the Memory of Salvation and Divine Punishment (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Pagan Religions, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 536-b | The Early Medieval Reception of Augustine on 'Wednesday' (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Pagan Religions, Religious Life, Theology |
Paper 536-c | Thursday in the Later Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Pagan Religions, Religious Life, Theology |
Abstract | In Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, time was not a neutral but a qualified category. But how and why did special days get an intrinsic quality as good days, bad days, or specific days for specific activities? How was this - sometimes contradictory - set of ideas transmitted and taught? The papers deal with beneficial and precarious, prognostic and commemorative calendrical knowledge about days and times, including a focus on related so-called 'pagan', 'Jewish' and 'Christian' ideas about the calendar in memory and for prognosis. |