Transformations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages II: New Methodologies and Approaches
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Dept. of History, Durham Univ.
Organizer Name
Helen Foxhall Forbes
Organizer Affiliation
Durham Univ.
Presider Name
James Corke-Webster
Presider Affiliation
Durham Univ.
Paper Title 1
From Group to Subject: Rethinking Identity in the Early Middle Ages
Presenter 1 Name
Guy Halsall
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of York
Paper Title 2
Gregory of Tours, Religious Authority, and Modern Sociology
Presenter 2 Name
Christopher Guyol
Presenter 2 Affiliation
SUNY-Geneseo
Paper Title 3
Calabria, AD 400-900: Early Medieval? Late Antique? Byzantine?
Presenter 3 Name
Helen Foxhall Forbes
Start Date
14-5-2017 10:30 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 2020
Description
This session examines the disciplinary structures, approaches and assumptions which underpin research into late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, centring particularly on how to bring different disciplines together for fruitful dialogue across periods, regions and methodologies. Guy Halsall explores how the theory of the subject in continental philosophy and related psychoanalysis can be used to build on and go beyond ideas about groups and boundaries, which have tended to reify or hypostatise not only the group but also the identity in scholarship on identity in late antiquity and the early middle ages. Christopher Guyol considers how far society was becoming integrated under religious authority figures in the early Middle Ages, using the work of Gregory of Tours as an example, and focusing on how sociological approaches are useful in investigating these issues. Helen Foxhall Forbes examines how different disciplinary approaches to the study of Calabria (southern Italy) in the period 400-900 affect periodisation and in turn the way in which Calabria is understood and interpreted.
Helen G. Foxhall Forbes
Transformations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages II: New Methodologies and Approaches
Fetzer 2020
This session examines the disciplinary structures, approaches and assumptions which underpin research into late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, centring particularly on how to bring different disciplines together for fruitful dialogue across periods, regions and methodologies. Guy Halsall explores how the theory of the subject in continental philosophy and related psychoanalysis can be used to build on and go beyond ideas about groups and boundaries, which have tended to reify or hypostatise not only the group but also the identity in scholarship on identity in late antiquity and the early middle ages. Christopher Guyol considers how far society was becoming integrated under religious authority figures in the early Middle Ages, using the work of Gregory of Tours as an example, and focusing on how sociological approaches are useful in investigating these issues. Helen Foxhall Forbes examines how different disciplinary approaches to the study of Calabria (southern Italy) in the period 400-900 affect periodisation and in turn the way in which Calabria is understood and interpreted.
Helen G. Foxhall Forbes