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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1713: Internal Borders in the Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine World, III: Crossing Borders of Religion, Body, and Legality

Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:South West & Wales 'Late Antique, Early Medieval & Byzantine Network' (SWW LAEMB)
Organiser:Alice van den Bosch, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter
Moderator/Chair:Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Paper 1713-aDominus and Slave: A Clandestine Border
(Language: English)
José María Carrasco López, Departament de Ciències de l'Antiguitat i de l'Edat Mitjana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - General
Paper 1713-bThe Borders of Art and the Body: The Reception of the Caryatid Motif on Late Antique Sarcophagi
(Language: English)
Miriam Hay, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick
Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life
Abstract

This final panel takes a look at some of the cultural and legal borders within the Late Antique religious world between social classes, public, and private and even the living and the dead. The first paper offers a re-consideration of the relationship between master and slave through burials in Late Antique Spain. The second paper, which looks at the caryatid motif on Christian sarcophagi, explores borders between Classical and Late Antique aesthetics.