IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1531: Local Perspectives on Late Ancient Crises, I: Communities in Trouble
Thursday 4 July 2024, 09:00-10:30
| Organisers: | Mateusz Fafinski, Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Universität Erfurt Jakob Riemenschneider, Institut für Alte Geschichte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Foxhall Forbes, Dipartimento di studi umanistici, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia |
| Paper 1531-a | Under Pressure: Changing Perspectives on Crisis in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Local History and Social History |
| Paper 1531-b | A Western Witness to the 'World Crisis': Writing the Avar Surprise in Merovingian Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History and Social History |
| Paper 1531-c | Processing Crisis: Memorialisation and Disaster Management in Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies and Mentalities |
| Paper 1531-d | When the Bishop Dies: The Clergy in a Time of Crisis (and Excitement) (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History and Social History |
| Abstract | Crisis is often associated with Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, as one of the recurring and characteristical traits of a world that was quickly changing. The three sessions want to propose to look at crisis as less of a global and Mediterranean phenomenon, and more as an issue that small-scale communities and regional societies had to deal with. Thus, we want to change perspective towards dealing with crisis and the productive side-effects of sudden change. Even epoch-making events clearly had their local angle. This, in turn, had an effect on memory and community coherence, bolstering new waves of thinking about past events. A crisis could also be an opportunity for improvements or for solidification. |