IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1106: Localities and Local Identities in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, II: Building Local Religious Identities

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	South West & Wales 'Late Antique, Early Medieval & Byzantine Network'
Organiser:	Laura Stops, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter
Moderator/Chair:	Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Paper 1106-a	Clement's Exegetical Approaches to Scripture and Alexandrian Christian Identity (Language: English) Josh Littell, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter Index terms: Philosophy, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1106-b	Bread, Fish, and Egg: The Augustinian Recipe for a Terrified Soul (Language: English) Inês Bolinhas, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa Index terms: Philosophy, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
Paper 1106-c	Local Identities in an Episcopal City: Singing About Patron Saints (Language: English) Lenneke Van Raaij, Department of History, University of Exeter Index terms: Liturgy, Local History, Religious Life
Abstract	How did religion influence local identity? And how did local identity influence local religion? The second of three panels focusing on how local identity was constructed, expressed, and how we as scholars infer local identity from a range of source material, this panel aims to address the relationship between religion and local identity. The first paper explores how local identity was used to create Christian doctrine in Alexandria, while the second paper will explore how Augustine's Sermon 105 employed religious scripture to address contemporary events. The panel's final paper will employ liturgical chants to explore the creation of local identities in 10th-century Trier.