East and West : Modes of Communication. Proceedings of the First Plenary Conference at Merida

by: Chrysos, E. Wood, I.

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East and West: Modes of Communication
Proceedings of the First Plenary Conference at Merida
Series:
Transformation of the Roman World, Volume: 5
Editors: Chrysos and Wood
The End of Antiquity saw an increase in the divide between East and West. This crucial development in the history of the Late and Post-Roman World was addressed in a series of linked papers delivered at the first plenary conference of the European Science Foundation's scientific programme on the Transformation of the Roman World, held in 1995. A group of leading scholars (Beat Brenk, Peter Brown, Averil Cameron, Christian Hannick, N. Oikonomedes, Lennard Ryden) addressed questions of social, cultural, artistic and linguistic change, concentrating largely on developments within the East, while changes in the West were explored in a series of responses (from Michel Banniard, Mayke de Jong, Alain Dierkens, Niels Hannestad, Walter Pohl, Ian Wood).
In addition, the history of Late Roman and Visigothic Merida, the setting for the conference, was set out by Javier Arce. Together these papers constitute a major exploration of the social and cultural changes in East and West in the period of the Transformation of the Roman World. To this collection are added two papers, by Paolo Delogu and Thomas F.X. Noble, delivered in the course of the third and final plenary congress of the programme, held in Isernia in 1997, assessing the achievement of the whole project at the end of five years of conferences and workshops.

Preface
Introduction Evangelos Chrysos

The City of Merida (Emerida) in the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium (VIth Century A.D.) Javier Arce
Images as a Substitute for Writing Peter Brown
Images as a Substitute for Writing: A Replay Ian Wood
Adminstrative Language and its Public Deployment N. Oikonomedes
Some Reflections on Mandarin Language Mayke de jong
Communicating Holiness Lennart Ryden
The Use and Abuse of Latin Hagiography in the Early Medieval West Ian Wood
Social Language and its Private Deployment Averil Cameron
Social Language, Identities and the Control of Discourse Walter Pohl
Mit was fur Mitteln kann einen physisch Anonymen Auctoritas Verliehen werden Beat Brenk
How did rising Christianity cope with Pagan Sculpture? Niels Hannestad
Le developpement des langues regionales et l?introduction d?alphabet dans des communautes illettrees Christain Hannick
Conflits et compromis langagiers en Occident latin : de la crise culturelle a l?invention linguistique (IIIe-X- siecle) Michel Banniard
Transformation of the Roman World: Reflections on Five Years of Work Thomas F.X. Noble
Modes of Communication: An AfterwordIan wood

Index
List of Illustrations

East and West : Modes of Communication. Proceedings of the First Plenary Conference at Merida

by: Chrysos, E. Wood, I.

• ISBN-13: 9789004109292 / 978-90-04-10929-2
• ISBN-03: 9004109293 / 90-04-10929-3
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1999

Price: 175,00 EURO

1 copy in stock