IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 618: Institutional Fragmentation and Geographical Imaginations in the Early Middle Ages, III: Reframing Distance
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | ERC Project CONNEC 'Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West', Royal Holloway, University of London |
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| Organiser: | David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca |
| Moderator/Chair: | Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 618-a | Renegotiating the Universal Church from behind Burgundian Borders: The Letters of Avitus of Vienne (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 618-b | Geography and Memory in the Life of Germanus of Auxerre (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 618-c | 'Papa Don't Preach': Archbishop Januarius and the Sardinian Church in the Letters of Gregory the Great (Language: English) Index terms: Religious Life, Social History |
| Abstract | Despite the context of political fragmentation, late antique Christian intellectuals envisaged a universal, united church. This session, the third on the topic, explores how intellectuals used geography as a conceptual locus to discuss ideas of orthodoxy and legitimacy. |