IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1004: Conflicting Approaches to Late Antique Epigraphy, I: The Byzantine East
Wednesday 3 July 2024, 09:00-10:30
| Sponsor: | Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture |
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| Organiser: | Rachael Helen Banes, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung für Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alice van den Bosch, Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion & Theology, University of Exeter |
| Paper 1004-a | Using Graffiti to Reconstruct the Early Byzantine Inscription as Text and Image (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life and Epigraphy |
| Paper 1004-b | Epigraphic Methods for Gendering Monastic Space: Problems and Possibilities (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Epigraphy and Gender Studies |
| Paper 1004-c | Conflicting Ideas of Epigraphic (In)Visibility at Shared Byzantine Cult Sites (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Art History - Decorative Arts, Byzantine Studies and Epigraphy |
| Abstract | Inscriptions are static, but their interpretation is fluid. Conflict and contradiction in epigraphic texts and how we read them are common and have significant impact on our understanding of the past. However, we believe such tension is valuable for driving the development of new methods for thinking about inscribed texts. These sessions bring together inscriptions that resist definition and invite such conflicting approaches. Each paper in this panel, which focuses on the eastern Mediterranean, illustrates the creative potential of embracing the multivalent nature of epigraphy, with particular emphasis on the importance of situating texts in their material and visual contexts. This session is one of two parallel panels exploring the Eastern and Western Mediterranean respectively. |