Text and Material Culture in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Scott de Brestian

Organizer Affiliation

Central Michigan Univ.

Presider Name

Damián Fernández

Presider Affiliation

Northern Illinois Univ.

Paper Title 1

Material Culture in the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville

Presenter 1 Name

Scott de Brestian

Paper Title 2

Quintanilla de las Vinas and Sassanian Textiles One More Time

Presenter 2 Name

William Mierse

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Vermont

Paper Title 3

Putting Clerical Communities in Their Social Contexts: Gallaecia in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries

Presenter 3 Name

Rebecca Devlin

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Florida

Paper Title 4

”Give ear, you that rule the people, and please yourselves in multitudes of nations” (Wisdom 6:2): Power, Superstition, and Authority at the Juncture of Postconversion in the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (600-636)

Presenter 4 Name

Eleonora Dell' Elicine

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Univ. de Buenos Aires/Univ. de General Sarmiento

Start Date

8-5-2014 7:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 208

Description

It is the aim of this session to contribute to the continuing and important debate regarding the use of medieval texts as an aid to the interpretation of archaeological data, and vice versa, with a particular focus on the Iberian Peninsula during the later Roman Empire and the Visigothic and Suevic Kingdoms.

Scott de Brestian

Central Michigan University