IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1104: Conflicting Approaches to Late Antique Epigraphy, II: The West
Wednesday 3 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Organiser: | Rachael Helen Banes, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung für Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rachael Helen Banes, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung für Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1104-a | Re-Enacting Crises?: Performance, Persecution, and Past in North African Martyr Epigraphy (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Epigraphy, Religious Life and Theology |
| Paper 1104-b | A Crisis of Virginity: Multi-Dimensional Readings of Embodied Faith in Late Antique Milanese Burials (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Epigraphy, Religious Life and Theology |
| Paper 1104-c | A Dolphin or Jonah's Whale?: The Challenge of Late Antique Funerary Images in a Multi-Religious Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Epigraphy, Pagan Religions and Theology |
| Abstract | Occupying a nebulous space between material culture and written history, epigraphy provides a unique lens into the societal crises which prevailed in late antiquity. But this fluidity has often resulted in conflict; both in how this material manifested religious and personal struggles, and how modern scholars seek to understand it. In this panel, each paper addresses these ever present conflicts in relation to late antique epigraphy from the west. Key themes will include the ways epigraphy can reveal how late antique peoples understood historic encounters and their own religious being, as well as the complexities of interpreting this data. Context: This session is one of two parallel panels exploring the eastern and western Mediterranean respectively. |