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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 518: Institutional Fragmentation and Geographical Imaginations in the Early Middle Ages, II: Overcoming Distance

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:ERC Project CONNEC 'Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West', Royal Holloway, University of London
Organiser:David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca
Moderator/Chair:David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca
Paper 518-aNegotiating Distance and Meaningful Relationships in Augustine's Epistolary Network
(Language: English)
Victoria Leonard, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
Index terms: Religious Life, Social History
Paper 518-b'If Quoduultdeus is there, I'm leaving!': Cross-Regional Factions at the African Councils
(Language: English)
Christie Pavey, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Index terms: Religious Life, Social History
Abstract

In this session, the second of the three proposed, we will look at how social alliances were built and maintained despite the geographical distance and the on-going context of political fragmentation.