IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1230: Epigraphies of Pious Travel, I: Pilgrims and the Religious Experience
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Rachael Banes, School of History, University of Birmingham |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rachael Banes, School of History, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1230-a | The Holy Land in Early East Slavic Epigraphy (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Epigraphy |
| Paper 1230-b | Who Wrote the Greek Graffiti on the Walls of Alanian Churches? (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Epigraphy |
| Paper 1230-c | Under Divine Protection: Supernatural Beings in Christian Greek Graffiti from the Late Antique Mediterranean (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Epigraphy |
| Abstract | This is the first of two interconnected panels organised by the 'Epigraphies of Pious Travel' project. The panel examined graffiti and informal inscriptions from the Russian-Byzantine sphere, looking at the broad networks which brought pilgrims together at a holy site and what motivated these pilgrims to carve graffiti. The four papers in this panel are united by a religious framework. The first paper looks at the connection between the Holy Land and Slavic inscriptions, whilst the second paper focuses on identifying the pilgrims who visited churches in medieval Alania. The third paper considers the divine recipient of pilgrims' inscribed prayers. The final paper examines Greek graffiti in Cyprus, and the delineation between commemorative and devotional inscriptions. Key themes throughout the panel will be the relationship between religious travellers and their final destination, and the expressions of personal piety by these travellers. |