IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1640: Material Narratives of Late Antiquity, II: Continuity and Change
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Richard Flower, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 1640-a | The Politics of Public Portrait Sculpture in Late Antique Greece (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Sculpture, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 1640-b | Integrating Evidence and Challenging Narratives: A Study of Apotropaic Protection in Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Byzantine Studies, Canon Law, Social History |
| Paper 1640-c | 'Qué será cera?': Tracking Beekeeping Materially in Late Antique and Medieval Aragon (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Rural, Economics - Urban, Epigraphy |
| Abstract | ‘Late Antiquity' as a coherent historiographical concept owes its existence to reassessments of patterns of social continuity and change. These three papers speak directly to that tradition by offering new methods or new types of evidence by which to make such reassessments. Brown assesses changes in the scale and nature of statuary production and their relationship with the transformation of civic into religious discursive narratives. Sever Georgousakis examines how material evidence overturns literary narratives of the Byzantine Church's defeat of apotropaic ritual. Wallace-Hare examines the practice of bee-keeping in late and post-Roman Aragon to consider changes in the political economy of that region in this turbulent period. |