IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1719: Erasure in Late Antiquity, III: Erasing the Dead
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Postgraduate & Early-Career Late Antiquity Network |
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| Organisers: | Becca Grose, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1719-a | Erasing Difference on Christian Sarcophagi: Incorporating Roman and Jewish Pasts (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Pagan Religions |
| Paper 1719-b | Covering up a Murder: Magic and Violent Death in Early Christianity (Language: English) Index terms: Pagan Religions, Rhetoric, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Paper 1719-c | Erasing Violence: Controlling Memory and Removing Bodies in 4th-Century Church Controversies (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Abstract | This panel considers the role of erasure in shaping memories of violent or conflicting pasts in Late Antiquity. Hay considers the integration and assimilation of Roman and Jewish pasts on later Christian sarcophagi. Holob considers the association of Jesus and martyrs with the ghosts of those who had died a violent death. Boers' paper continues these themes to show how both victims and perpetrators not only rewrote but even removed physical traces of violence in attempts to control the memory of violent events in 4th-century church conflicts. |