IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 821: Marginal Groups and the Written Word in the Merovingian World
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Ophelia Norris, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht Eduard Visintini, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Marco Mostert, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 821-a | Jewish Epitaphs in Merovingian Gaul: Identity and Identification (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Literacy and Orality, Theology |
| Paper 821-b | Unfreedom in the Merovingian Church: The Use of Ecclesiastical Concepts and Terminology (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Liturgy, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 821-c | The Role of Women in Late Antique and Early Medieval Penitential Books (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Literacy and Orality, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This panel focuses on marginal groups and networks in Merovingian society in relation to literacy and the descriptive potential of the written word; the concept of marginality being here understood in a large sense, encompassing socio-economic, ethno-religious, and gendered realities. To better understand broader questions of literacy in the Merovingian world, the panel studies the ways in which marginals and their existences are depicted and how they depict themselves. It covers topics ranging from systems of unfreedom in legal and narrative sources, to the identification of Jews in funerary epitaphs, to questions of gendered dependency in legal and religious written sources. |