IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 240: The Use and Construction of Place, Space, and Materiality in Late Antiquity
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Catherine-Rose Hailstone, Department of History, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Simon Loseby, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 240-a | Materiality and the Holy in Gregory of Tours (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Religious Life |
| Paper 240-b | Trace, Space, Place: The Materiality of Identity in Merovingian Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Social History |
| Paper 240-c | Place and Space: Gregory, Materiality, and the Fear of God (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | This session will discuss the use and construction of place, space and material objects in late antiquity. It will explore how late antique contemporaries created social spaces in their world (i.e. through costume and architecture) in addition to examining how public figures (i.e. saints and bishops) used those spaces, places and other material objects to create, maintain and expand worldly and holy power. The papers in this session will raise methodological questions about the ways by which historians might discover how contemporaries created space as well as how we might use place, space and materiality to enhance our understanding of late antique society. |