IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 642: Construction and Deconstruction of Memory in Byzantium
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Michael Grünbart, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Paraskevi Toma, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
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Moderator/Chair: | Michael Grünbart, Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster |
Paper 642-a | Memory and Patronage: Commemorating the Patron in Dedicatory Inscriptions of Macedonia in the Middle Byzantine Period (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 642-b | Memento mori: The Remembrance of Death in the Catecheses of Theodore the Studite (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Paper 642-c | Some Thoughts on Several Byzantine Codices in which Galen Appears as Member of the Roman gens Claudia (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
Abstract | Is Byzantium, as we know it today, a sequence of casual episodic memories that build a cohesive whole or a conscious memory system willing to impose a collective identity? What is the role of politics and religion in promoting the 'memorable'? The session recalls the material and textual data that construct, de- and reconstruct the function of memory in Byzantium. The focus will be on epigraphic evidence as a source for promoting patronage, on the remembrance of death as part of the worshiper's life, and on recently spotlighted Byzantine medical codices supporting |