Wednesday, April 24, 2013

"Writing before Literature: Later Latin Scriptures and the Memory of Rome"


From www.bris.ac.uk

Blackwell-Bristol Lectures 2013: European Literature and Latin Late Antiquity

Rome

The annual Blackwell-Bristol Lectures 2013 will this year be given by Mark Vessey, Professor of English at University of British Columbia. Professor Vessey's research interests include Jerome, Augustine and Latin late antiquity; Erasmus and the literary Renaissance; classical and Christian traditions in European literature.

No other city has written its name across time, space, language and culture like Rome. Configured in the late republican and Augustan eras and updated as required in the early Empire, the signifying codes of an assimilative and multi-ethnic Romanity were comprehensively revised by emperors, artists and ideologues of late antiquity in both East and West.  At the same time, they were converted to the ends of a Christian universalism that transcended the limits of Rome's empire. 

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