IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1803: Changing Winds and Great Storms: The Dynamics of Speech Communities and Forms of Their Linguistic Self-Expression in the Eastern Mediterranean, 324-1204, II - Re-Configuring Languages and the Epigraphic Culture in the Levant and Egypt

Thursday 8 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:	National Science Centre, Poland, Warszawa / Uniwersytet Warszawski / Jacksonville State University, Florida
Organiser:	Paweł Nowakowski, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chairs:	Yuliya Minets, National University, Kyiv / Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Kyiv Paweł Nowakowski, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Paper 1803-a	Signing in Syriac: Artists' 'Signatures' and Identities in Late Antique Syria (Language: English) Sean Leatherbury, School of Art History & Cultural Policy, University College Dublin Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy, Religious Life
Paper 1803-b	The Linguistic Aspect of the Epigraphic Culture of the Southern Levant in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Piotr Głogowski, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Wrocławski Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Comparative
Paper 1803-c	The Use of Languages in the Inscriptions of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Language: English) Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM), Université de Poitiers / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	The session explores the interplay between various linguistic and material features attested in the epigraphic evidence from different regions around the eastern Mediterranean. The papers seek to examine pilgrim inscriptions from religious sites in the late antique Syria and Palestine frequented by representatives of different faiths, including polytheists (pagans), Jews, and Christians, and to investigate their visual presentation as well as production; to present the preliminary results of the new quantitative and qualitative analysis of linguistic features of the epigraphic evidence from the southern Levant; to explore language choices in epigraphic production of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem.