IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 244: ERC STONE-MASTERS Project, I: Urban Elites Facing a Crisis - Anxiety as a Cause of Change and Its Manifestations in Epigraphy of Urban Networks of the Late Antiquity and High Middle Ages
Monday 1 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | ERC Projekt STONE-MASTERS, Uniwersytet Warszawski (StG 101040152) |
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| Organiser: | Julia Borczyńska, Wydział Historii, Projekt ERC STONE-MASTERS, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bryan Ward-Perkins, Trinity College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 244-a | Restore the Splendor of the Sacred Caves: Verse Epigrams As a Testimony of the Reaction of Urban Elites to the Destruction after the Siege of Rome, 537 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts and Epigraphy |
| Paper 244-b | The Butterfly Effect: Individual Religious Crisis as a Trigger for Interferences in the Urban Fabric (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Epigraphy, Monasticism and Women's Studies |
| Paper 244-c | The Response of the Elites of Bruges to the Crisis in Flanders, 1127-1128 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban and Social History |
| Abstract | The motif of a crisis that affects both individuals and communities, becoming a factor that causes far-reaching changes, is very well known in history. In our session, based on selected examples from Late Antiquity to the High Middle Ages, we would like to consider how the reactions of urban elites to the crisis influenced both topographical and social changes that took place in the urban fabric, and how these were manifested through building and dedicatory inscriptions, a powerful means of social communication. We will also examine how these elites themselves wished to be remembered by their contemporaries as well as the future generations. |