IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1307: Epigraphies of Pious Travel: Pilgrims' Inscriptions, Movement, and Devotion between Byzantium and Rus'
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Andreas Rhoby, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Andreas Rhoby, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1307-a | Pilgrims in Peril: Requests for Divine Intervention in the Informal Epigraphy of the Late Antique East (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy, Religious Life |
| Paper 1307-b | Pilgrims' Inscriptions and How to Find Them: Methodologies and Challenges of Distinguishing Visitors' Graffiti at Bawit, Middle Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Greek, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 1307-c | Greek Inscriptions from a Pilgrimage Centre in Lazica (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Greek, Local History |
| Abstract | The material culture of late antique and medieval pilgrimage has received increasing scholarly attention in recent years. Nevertheless, to date there has been no attempt to systematically document the epigraphy associated with Christian pilgrimage. This session will introduce the newly launched 'Epigraphies of Pious Travel', a joint Austrian and Russian project which seeks to compile pilgrimage inscriptions from Byzantium and medieval Russia (with emphasis on informal graffiti and dipinti). The session will take a comparative approach, examining inscriptions in Greek, Coptic and Nubian to introduce the key research questions of the project: What motivated pilgrims to document their presence? How did pilgrims identify themselves? And how personal was this form of religious worship? |