IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 532: Spatiality, Emotions, and Crisis in Late Antique Gaul
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 09:00-10:30
| Organiser: | Michael Hanaghan, Institute for Religion & Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Michael Hanaghan, Institute for Religion & Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne |
| Paper 532-a | Effects and Affects: Emotional Responses to Material-Cultural Change in 5th-Century Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Daily Life and Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Paper 532-b | Crisis and the Shaping of Emotion in Late Antique Churches (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Geography and Settlement Studies and Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 532-c | Sidonius' Emotions and The Spatiality of 5th-Century Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular and Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | Late Antique Gaul underwent dramatic social and political changes as the western Roman empire transitioned into the barbarian successor kingdoms. This panel explores the nexus of spatiality, emotions and crisis in this period, focusing on both material and literary texts. It asks how people responded emotionally to dramatic, spatial transformation and wonders how changes in space affected and energised emotional responses. The papers cover a variety of topics and text types, including rural settlement patterns and in the treatment of the dead, the highly charged letters of the Gallo-Roman bishop and aristocrat Sidonius Apollinaris, and the emotional responses to political and environmental challenges as revealed by Gregory of Tours’ descriptions of church design and decoration. Collectively, the papers explore how emotions of crisis were encoded into the religious and secular spaces of Late Antique Gaul. How did the profound change intrinsic to crisis impact human responses to space? How is this evidenced in the extant literary and material culture of late antique Gaul, and what can this tell us about wider attitudes towards space, place, and emotion in times of crisis? |