IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1347: Material Narratives of Late Antiquity, I: Elite Sites and New Datasets
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | DFG Center for Advanced Studies 'Migration & Mobility in Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen’ |
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| Organisers: | James Michael Harland, Department of Arts, Design & Social Sciences, Northumbria University Andrew Welton, University Writing Program, University of Florida |
| Moderator/Chair: | Becca Grose, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 1347-a | Using Pottery to Reconceptualise the Study of Ethnicity and Migration: A Case Study of Lyminge, Kent, and Its 16,000 Pottery Sherd Assemblage (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Demography, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 1347-b | Palatial Architecture and Political Community in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Byzantine Studies, Political Thought |
| Paper 1347-c | It's Not about Identity: Reading Narratives from Early Anglo-Saxon Period Weapon Graves (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History |
| Abstract | The transformation of the Roman world necessarily resulted in a dramatic renegotiation of the relationship between people and the spaces which they inhabited. Recent scholarship has rightly emphasised that these transitions were more complex than was once thought. Evidence for continuity has been found where there was once believed to be drastic disruption, and excessive attention to elite material culture at the expense of broader evidential material has in some instances distorted perceptions of social fabric of the late antique world. The new theoretical approaches and datasets offered by these three papers unpack the complex effects that people and the spaces they inhabited had on the late antique social sphere. |