Session 610
Title: Social Networks of Clergy in Late Antiquity, II
Abstract: Late antique clerics did not act in a social void.
They had friends, partners, allies, patrons, and
enemies. These two sessions will examine relations
which linked bishops, presbyters, and deacons with
lay people, women, heretics, monks, and other members
of the clergy, in different regions of Christendom in
c. 300-600. While analysing normative texts,
narratives, theological treatises, inscriptions, and
particularly letters the speakers will seek to
explain the range, strength, and character of
personal and institutional contacts as well as the
mechanisms which helped to establish, maintain, and
sometimes break them up.
Sponsor: Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet Warszawski
Organiser Robert Wiśniewski, Department of Ancient History,
Uniwersytet Warszawski
Moderator/Chair David Hunter, Department of Modern & Classical
Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of
Kentucky
Paper -a Friends and Enemies: The Female Relationships of Late
Antique Clerics in Exile (Language: English)
Speaker: Julia Hillner, Department of History, University of
Sheffield
Indexing Terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Social
History, Women’s Studies
Equipment: Data Projector (“beamer”- requires laptop)
Paper -b Eating with Heretics: Nicene Clergy toward Homoian
Communities in the Successor Kingdoms (Language:
English)
Speaker: Marta Szada, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet
Warszawski
Indexing Terms: Daily Life, Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities,
Social History
Equipment: Data Projector (“beamer”- requires laptop)
Paper -c Managing Expectations in a Western Ascetic Network:
Augustine, Paulinus of Nola, Sulpicius Severus
(Language: English)
Speaker: Michael Williams, Department of Ancient Classics,
Maynooth University
Indexing Terms: Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Social History
Equipment: Data Projector (“beamer”- requires laptop)
Paper -d Open Courtesy and Hidden Rivalry in Salutatory
Formulas of Clerics’ Letters in Late Antiquity
(Language: English)
Speaker: Stanisław Adamiak, Instytut Historyczny, Uniwersytet
Warszawski
Indexing Terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature –
Latin, Social History
Equipment: None
Session Time: Tue. 05 July – 11.15-12.45
Session 1311
Title: Forming Christian Authority in Late Antiquity, II:
Heresiology, Hagiography, and Church Politics
Abstract: Late Antiquity saw many controversial ecclesiastical
disputes, which both threatened the legitimacy of
individual bishops, clerics and monks, and gave them
the chance to claim privileged status as interpreters
of correct doctrine. A vast corpus of apologetic
Christian literature documents these contests for
authority within the church. This session considers
various textual strategies adopted by late-antique
ecclesiastical controversialists to try to come out
on top in church politics. Individual papers consider
Augustine’s use of heresiology, Pope Gelasius’
development of a polemical definition of communion,
and Cyril of Scythopolis’ Chalcedonian appropriation
of the career of the revered Palestinian abbot
Euthymius.
Sponsor: Oxford Medieval Studies Programme
Organiser Robin Whelan, Brasenose College / The Oxford Research
Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), University of
Oxford
Moderator/Chair Julia Hillner, Department of History, University of
Sheffield
Paper -a Heresiology as Church Politics (Language: English)
Speaker: Richard Flower, Department of Classics & Ancient
History, University of Exeter
Indexing Terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Rhetoric,
Theology
Equipment: Data Projector (“beamer”- requires laptop), Laptop
Paper -b Heresy and _communio_ in the Letters and _tractates_
of Gelasius I (Language: English)
Speaker: Samuel Cohen, Department of History, Sonoma State
University
Indexing Terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Rhetoric,
Theology
Equipment: None
Paper -c Creating a Chalcedonian Saint: The Career of
Euthymius the Great (Language: English)
Speaker: Daniel Neary, Corpus Christi College, University of
Cambridge
Indexing Terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Monasticism,
Theology
Equipment: Data Projector (“beamer”- requires laptop), Laptop
Session Time: Wed. 06 July – 16.30-18.00
Session 1437
Title: Network Science and Medieval Sources: A Round Table
Discussion
Abstract: Building on the success of our session on network
analysis and medieval sources at Leeds IMC 2015, this
round table will discuss the potential applications
of network science to various types of evidence from
the Middle Ages, and consider the issues and
questions that may arise in such ground-breaking
interdisciplinary research. The participants are all
exploring new approaches and methodologies in their
research and represent a broad range of expertise
(Maths/Physics; Late Antiquity; the Viking Age; and
Anglo-Saxon England) allowing for a wide-ranging and
lively discussion.
Participants include Julia Hillner (University of
Sheffield), Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham),
Ralph Kenna (Coventry University), Helen Lawson
(University of Edinburgh), Pádraig Mac Carron
(University of Oxford), and Francesca Tinti
(Universidad del País Vasco).
Sponsor: Applied Mathematics Research Centre (AMRC), Coventry
University
Organiser Máirín Mac Carron, Department of History, University
of Sheffield
Moderator/Chair Máirín Mac Carron
Participant Julia Hillner, Department of History, University of
Sheffield, Judith Jesch, Centre for the Study of the
Viking Age, University of Nottingham, Ralph Kenna,
Applied Mathematics Research Centre (AMRC), Coventry
University, Helen Lawson, School of History, Classics
& Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Pádraig Mac
Carron, Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Oxford and Francesca Tinti,
Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de
América, Universidad del País Vasco
Purpose: Building on the success of our session on network
analysis and medieval sources at Leeds IMC 2015, this
round table will discuss the potential applications
of network science to various types of evidence from
the Middle Ages, and consider the issues and
questions that may arise in such ground-breaking
interdisciplinary research. The participants are all
exploring new approaches and methodologies in their
research and represent a broad range of expertise
(Maths/Physics; Late Antiquity; the Viking Age; and
Anglo-Saxon England) allowing for a wide-ranging and
lively discussion.
Participants include Julia Hillner (University of
Sheffield), Judith Jesch (University of Nottingham),
Ralph Kenna (Coventry University), Helen Lawson
(University of Edinburgh), Pádraig Mac Carron
(University of Oxford), and Francesca Tinti
(Universidad del País Vasco).
Equipment: None
Session Time: Wed. 06 July – 19.00-20.00