These proceedings constitute an exploration of the social and cultural changes between East and West. Scholars addressed questions of social, cultural, artistic and linguistic change, focusing largely on developments in the East, while changes in the West were explored in a series of responses. In addition, the history of late-Roman and Visigoth Merida was set out by Javier Arce.
Author(s): Euangelos K. Chrysos, Ian Wood
Series: The Transformation of the Roman World 5
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 334
EAST AND WEST: MODES OF COMMUNICATION: Proceedings of the First Plenary Conference at Merida......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Evangelos Chrysos: Introduction......Page 10
Javier Arce: The City of Mérida (Emerita) in the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium (VIth Century A.D.)......Page 16
Emerita, a christian city......Page 22
Oriental merchants or "la fascination de l'Orient"?......Page 26
Peter Brown: Images as a Substitute for Writing......Page 30
Ian Wood: Images as a Substitute for Writing: A Reply......Page 50
N. Oikonomides: Administrative Language and its Public Deployment......Page 62
The survival of Latin in the East......Page 64
Bilingual Seals......Page 66
Titles......Page 70
Conclusion......Page 73
Mayke de Jong: Some Reflections on Mandarin Language......Page 76
Lennart Rydén: Communicating Holiness......Page 86
Ian Wood: The Use and Abuse of Latin Hagiography in the Early Medieval West......Page 108
Averil Cameron: Social Language and its Private Deployment......Page 126
Walter Pohl: Social Language, Identities and the Control of Discourse......Page 142
Praeliminarien......Page 158
1. Christus und der Bart der Philosophen......Page 163
2. Bischofs- und Heiligenbildnisse......Page 170
The image of Christ......Page 188
The setting......Page 195
Some collections of sculpture......Page 201
Favoured motifs......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 216
Christian Hannick: Le développement des langues regionales et l'introduction d'alphabets dans des communautés illettrées......Page 220
1. Histoire culturelle et histoire langagière......Page 238
2. Conflits et compromis (IIIe-VIIe siècles)......Page 241
3. Crises et inventions (VIIIe-Xe siècles)......Page 246
4. Interferences culturelles et langagières......Page 251
5. Quelques vues schématiques des phénomènes......Page 256
Paolo Delogu: Transformation of the Roman World: Reflections on Current Research......Page 258
Thomas F.X. Noble: The Transformation of the Roman World: Reflections on Five Years of Work......Page 274
Ian Wood: Modes of Communication: An Afterword......Page 294
Index......Page 298
List of Illustrations......Page 302
Illustrations......Page 304
