IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 844: Cultural Memory in Late Antiquity, IV: Building Late Antique Communities through Memory
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Richard Flower, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 844-a | Memories of Migration?: So-Called 'Anglo-Saxon' Burial Costume of the 5th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
| Paper 844-b | The Onomastics of Ancestry in the Self-Celebrating Strategies of the Late Antique Aristocracy: The Case of the Valeri (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Rhetoric |
| Paper 844-c | Making Memory from Silence: John of Damascus on Inter-Ecclesiastical Disputes and the Shaping of Church Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Greek, Sermons and Preaching |
| Abstract | Members of many late-antique communities used versions of their pasts to make claims about the definition and the prestige of their own groups. Such claims which were often reinforced and normalised within the routine collective activities of the group. These three papers consider processes of late-antique communal formation: the material embodiment of scriptural and hagiographical stories in the rituals of Holy Land pilgrimage and liturgy; the use (or invention) of illustrious ancestors in the 4th-century aristocracy; and the self-conscious forgetting of earlier ecclesiastical disputes in an 8th-century Palestinian Christian community. |