IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 308: Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, II: Real and Imaginary Spaces
Monday 1 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) / Universiteit Utrecht / Onderzoeksschool Mediëvistiek |
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| Organiser: | Els Rose, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Respondent: | Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 308-a | Aliens in Space: 'Mapping' Civic and Religious Displacement in the Postclassical West (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 308-b | The Embodied City: Encomium Urbis, Consular Diptychs, and Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | Based at Utrecht University, the innovative project, Citizenship Discourses in the Early Middle Ages, 400-1100 (2017-2022), explores the impact of citizenship terminology in the Latin world 'after Rome'. While citizenship faded as a socio-political concept in the new social and political realities of the early medieval West, the vocabulary of legal documents and Christian writings, as well as the visualisation of the city and citizenship in material sources, persisted. Early medieval authors and artists utilized this complex terminology and imagery linked to ancient Greco-Roman and biblical citizenship. In this second of two sessions, we concentrate on the spatial and visual sources in which citizenship vocabulary and imagery was employed. We will analyze strategies of (self) definition of individuals and communities through written and visualized strategies of inclusion and belonging as well as disqualification and exclusion. |