IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1740: Material Narratives of Late Antiquity, III: Epigraphy and Antiquarians
Thursday 4 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Andrew Welton, University Writing Program, University of Florida |
| Paper 1740-a | Evidence for the Beliefs of Late Antique Arabia: Evolving Cults and Literary Forgeries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Epigraphy, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life |
| Paper 1740-b | Overhearing Gaul's Inscribed Conversations: Complicating the Late Antique Funerary Inscriptions of Southern and Eastern Gaul, 3rd-7th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Demography, Epigraphy, Gender Studies |
| Paper 1740-c | The Hypogée des Dunes, Poitiers: Faith and Science in 19th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Epigraphy, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | These papers focus on the new light that epigraphy can shed on the late antique world. Effros offers an intellectual history which reveals the drastic ramifications that 19th-century critical approaches to epigraphic and monumental study have had for our understanding of Gallic martyrs' cults. Grose extends this critical reflexivity to the present day, by considering the discursive relationship of Gallic epigraphic evidence within a broader, intersectional social field and the implications that these might have for modern positivist approaches whose origins ultimately lie in the intellectual disputes described by Effros. Grasso uses epigraphic evidence to reassess prevailing cultural narratives for pre-Islamic Arabia. |