IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1729: Late Antique Frontiers, III: Urban and Suburban
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Jonathan Arnold, Department of History, University of Tulsa Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews |
Paper 1729-a | The Donatist Controversy and the Limits of the Bishop of Rome (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Religious Life |
Paper 1729-b | The Boundaries Separating Rural Estates from Rome's Charity Centres in the 5th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Economics - Urban |
Paper 1729-c | Urban Frontiers, Factionalism, and Social Unrest in Late Antique Rome (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
Abstract | The third session in this series considers the topic of urban and suburban frontiers. More specifically, papers in this session examine issues related to spatial boundaries, both real and imagined and sacred and secular, in addition to the political, social, and economic dynamics in and around the city of Rome in the late 4th and 5th centuries. |