IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 309: The Formation of Discourse Communities in Late Antiquity, 500-700, III: A Comparative Approach
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Kay Boers, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht Becca Grose, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan |
| Respondent: | Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien |
| Paper 309-a | Zaragoza, Gregory the Great, and the Formation of Discourse Communities in 7th-Century Iberia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric, Social History |
| Paper 309-b | Trickle Down Virtues?: Models of Inscribed Communities in North African and Gallic Epigraphy (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Language and Literature - Latin, Social History |
| Abstract | This session asks how discourse communities can be identified in the Late Antique Mediterranean and addresses the dynamics that formed, threatened and ensured them. The first paper (Boers) investigates how, each in their own way, bishops Braulio and Taio utilized their control of Saragossa library to fashion intricate intertextual and discursive relationships with authoritative figures in the past and present. The second paper (Grose) assesses the use of discourse community models for understanding the dynamics by which shared values were promoted in epigraphic clusters in Gaul and North Africa. The session will conclude with a critical reflection on the strand by Danuta Shanzer. |