IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1212: Late Antique and Early Medieval Networks, III: Imagined Connections

Sponsor:	ERC Project CONNEC 'Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West' / Royal Holloway, University of London
Organisers:	Victoria Leonard, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca
Moderator/Chair:	Robert Wiśniewski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Paper 1212-a	Gendered Networks in Late Antique and Early Medieval Church Histories (Language: English) Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, University of Sheffield Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1212-b	Networking Helena Augusta (Language: English) Julia Hillner, Department of History, University of Sheffield Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1212-c	Isidore's Etymologiae as a Window into Carolingian Intellectual Networks (Language: English) Evina Steinová, Universiteit Utrecht is Ingeschreven Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract	Despite the context of political fragmentation, late antique Christian thinkers envisaged a universal, united church. This session, the third of the four proposed, explores how intellectuals used past social networks as a rhetorical device to discuss ideas of orthodoxy, political ideology, gender, and intellectual affiliation.