IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1007: Erasure in Late Antiquity, III: Erasing the Dead
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Postgraduate & Early-Career Late Antiquity Network |
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| Organisers: | Kay Boers, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht Becca Grose, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1007-a | Julian's Funeral Law and the Erasure of the Memory of St Babylas (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Law, Pagan Religions, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1007-b | From Beast's Belly to Saintly Sepulcher: Ignatius of Antioch's Remains in Romans and Its Reception (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Greek, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1007-c | Defining the Afterlife: The (Attempted) Conceptual Erasure of Ghosts in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Mentalities, Theology |
| Abstract | In Late Antiquity, erasure could take many forms. In this session we will see that processes of erasure not only pertained to the living, but also the dead. The first paper (Denson) will explore how attempts to narrow the semantic range of terms like δαίμων contributed to the conceptual erasure of ghosts and spirits. The second paper (Holob) will look at how Ignatius of Antioch, through the image of the destroyed body, rejected Greco-Roman ideas about earthly glory. The last paper (Ernst) will look at the emperor Julian's funeral law as an attempt to censor Christian practices, obliterate the memory of St Babylas, and transform Antioch into a truly pagan city. |