IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 1740: Mourning and Remembrance, III: Around the Mediterranean

Organiser:	Lena Wahlgren-Smith, Department of History, University of Southampton
Moderator/Chair:	Christian Steer, Department of History, University of York
Paper 1740-a	Epitaphs of the Venetian Officials in the Venetian Eastern Mediterranean Colonies in the Medieval and Early Modern Period (Language: English) Yaroslav Stadnichenko, Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale (CESCM - UMR 7302), Université de Poitiers Index terms: Epigraphy and Lay Piety
Paper 1740-b	Ecstasis crucis: Mystical Environmental Imagery in the Positionality of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (Language: English) Dane Litchfield, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, Villanova University, Pennsylvania Index terms: Architecture - Religious and Theology
Paper 1740-c	Civic Pride and Collective Mourning in Byzantine Paphlagonia: A Hagiographical Perspective (Language: English) Cahit Mete Oguz, Department of History, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Hagiography and Local History
Abstract	This is the last of three sessions on Mourning and Remembrance. The papers focus on the eastern Mediterranean. Yaroslav Stadnichenko's paper examines the epitaphs of Venetian Officials in the Venetian Eastern Mediterranean Colonies in the Medieval and Early Modern Period. Dane Litchfield's paper looks at the positioning of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as a visual experience to the medieval pilgrim.