IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 334: Ecclesiastical Networks and Actors: Linking Late Antique and Early Medieval Lifeworlds
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Veronika Egetenmeyr, Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte Historisches Institut Universität Greifswald |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Roland Steinacher, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Respondent: | Uta Heil, Institut für Kirchengeschichte, Christliche Archäologie und Kirchliche Kunst, Universität Wien |
| Paper 334-a | Between Toledo, Carthage, and Constantinople: The Balearics in the Later 6th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 334-b | By the Book: Keeping Ecclesiastical Networks Alive through Manuscripts in the Early Medieval West (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 334-c | With Friends like These: The Lifeworld of 6th-Century Mediterranean Elites (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Abstract | Throughout the 5th and 6th centuries the Western Roman Empire disintegrated. While in Italy, Gaul, Spain, Africa, and Britain successor states emerged, the East with Constantinople as its capital prolonged the imperial structures. Secular as well as ecclesiastical protagonists continued to perceive the Roman Empire as an unity. Elite networks not only provided an exchange of ideas and transferred knowledge, such linkages also created communities beyond political boundaries. Secular as well as ecclesiastical actors entangled their various 'lifeworlds' as part of a transformation of the Roman world. The networks and entanglements of both parts of the Roman Empire, fostered and nourished through individual actors, will be in the focus of our two sessions. The first session focuses on ecclesiastical networks, which discussed for instance questions of faith as well as the role of the church. The second session is dedicated to military, diplomatic, and aristocratic secular networks. |