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IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1312: Late Antique and Early Medieval Networks, IV: Agency and Strategies

Wednesday 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00

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:Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 1312-aRebuilding Clerical Networks: Controversy and Political Crisis in Early 5th-Century Gaul
(Language: English)
David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1312-bStudying Clerical Relationships with the 'Presbyters in the Late Antique West' Database
(Language: English)
Marta Szada, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1312-cAbout Holy Inheritance Hunters, Frivolous Nuns, and Liberated Women: A New Approach to the Agency and Network Strategies of Widows in Late Antiquity
(Language: English)
Maik Patzelt, Department of History, University of Sheffield / Abteilung für Alte Geschichte, Universität Osnabrück
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1312-dEnnodius the Lobbyist: Intermediaries, Requests, and Network Emergence in the Ostrogothic Kingdom
(Language: English)
Daniel Knox, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract

In this panel, the fourth on the topic, we will look at how different social actors used their networks to achieve specific goals and mobilise support. Both the cohesive as well as the divisive power of network formation will be discussed.