IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 108: Ethnicity and Religion in Late Antiquity
Monday 1 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut für Geschichte, Freie Universität Berlin / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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Organiser: | Gerda Heydemann, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
Moderator/Chair: | Philipp von Rummel, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin |
Respondent: | Helmut Reimitz, Department of History, Princeton University |
Paper 108-a | Ethnicity and Religion in Late Antique and Early Medieval Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Political Thought |
Paper 108-b | Exegesis and Ethnicity: The Gentes in Biblical Commentaries between Ambrose and Bede (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Mentalities, Political Thought |
Abstract | The session explores the interrelation between religious and ethnic identities in the late antique and early medieval political communities. How did religious discourses and institutions frame the construction of ethnic and political communities, and how were they in turn framed by them? |