Theme:
4. Polis, Empire, League and Beyond – Living in Interconnected Societies
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
The Materiality of Lived Religion Under and After Rome
Content:
Roman and medieval archaeologists and historians are invited to present papers that focus on the material culture of lived religion both under and after Rome. Presentations can focus on either traditional religious practices or those associated with Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. Papers, beside introducing the audience to particular materials of religion rooted in a particular time and place, should also think through the interpretive challenges and uses of material culture for those interested in understanding past lifeworlds. The session provides space for historians, archaeologists, Romanists, and medievalists to have a serious discussion about the different ways our disciplines and chronological fields think about and use material evidence to reconstruct lived religion, the interpretive challenges it presents, and how, in the future, those of us working in different disciplines and in different periods might better combine our efforts. The goal of this session is to open a productive dialogue between Classicist and medievalists, historians and archaeologists.
Keywords:
material culture, lived religion, Romanisation revisited, post-Roman, Historical Archaeolgy, History
Session associated with MERC:
yes
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Robin Fleming (United States) 1
Co-organisers:
Bonnie Effros (Canada) 2
Affiliations:
1. Boston College
2. University of British Columbia
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