IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 245: Writing Stones: Describing Urban Materialities in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, I
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Jakob Ecker, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Mateusz Fafinski, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Jakob Riemenschneider, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Paper 245-a | Ravenna at the Time of Theoderic: A City Entangled between Romans and Ostrogoths (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 245-b | The Eternal City in the Mind of Her Provincial Subjects (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 245-c | Medium for Transmission: Ciampini on Late Antique Mosaic Decoration in Rome (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | The post-Roman city had serious implications on the dynamics of identity and power. Its materiality could influence the way patterns of authority coalesced in the late and post-Roman world. In researching this interface particular attention must be given to the relationship between the written descriptions of those spaces and their archaeological remains. From the focal role of Ravenna as a basis of both Roman and Gothic identity, to provincial perception and emotional charging of the Roman topography, to the personal statement of Junius Bassus' basilica projecting from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern times, material urbanity shapes the immaterial attitudes in this session. |