IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 617: Clerics and Their Households in Late Antiquity, II
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Presbyters in the Late Antique West Project, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
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| Organisers: | Stanisław Adamiak, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski Lisa Bailey, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Auckland |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Hunter, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Kentucky |
| Paper 617-a | Slaves and Servants in Clerical Households in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Paper 617-b | Monks and Monasteries in Late Antique Egypt: Between Household and Estate (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 617-c | Presbyters in the Tituli in 5th-Century Rome: Patrons and Clients (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Epigraphy, Genealogy and Prosopography, Liturgy |
| Abstract | This session will seek to answer the following questions: what was the legal status of the wives and children of clerics, both from the ecclesiastical and civil point of view? What was the position of the servants and slaves in the households of clerics? How did the relations with their familiars and neighbours influence the opinions and preaching of the clerics? What do archaeology and epigraphy tell us about the living conditions of the clergy in the first millennium? |