Wood Ian, Chrysos Evangelos (eds.) East and West: modes of communication (proceedings of the first, plenary conference at Merida)

Leiden ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, 1999. — (The transformation of the Roman world ; Vol. 5). — ISBN: 90-04-10929-3.This volume of papers from the ESF programme on "The Transformation of the Roman World" contains the texts of lectures given at the first and last plenary conferences of the project: the one held in Mérida in 1994, the other in Isernia in 1997. The first conference took as its special theme the matter of "Modes of Communication", and was intended to provide an opportunity for comparing the experience of the Late and post-Roman West with that of the Byzantine East (a region which for logistical reasons was only given secondary consideration in the programme as a whole). The lectures from that conference constitute a broad and interdisciplinary assessment of the subject. The two plenary lectures of the final conference consider the question of the transformation of the Roman World itself, and the achievements of the ESF programme in dealing with that question. The first of them reflects on the subject as it looks now after five years of work: the second assesses that work and makes suggestions for the future.Evangelos Chrysos - Introduction
Javier Arce - The City of Mérida (.Emerìta) in the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium (Vlth Century A.D.)
Peter Brown - Images as a Substitute for Writing
Ian Wood - Images as a Substitute for Writing: A Reply
N. Oikonomedes - Administrative Language and its Public Deployment
Mayke de Jong - Some Reflections on Mandarin Language
Lennart Rydén - Communicating Holiness
Ian Wood - The Use and Abuse of Latin Hagiography in the Early Medieval West
Averti Cameron - Social Language and its Private Deployment
Walter Pohl - Social Language, Identities and the Control of Discourse
Beat Brenk - Mit was für Mitteln kann einem physisch Anonymen Auctontas Verliehen werden?
Niels Hannestad - How did rising Christianity cope with Pagan Sculpture?
Christian Hannick - Le développement des langues regionales et l'introduction d'alphabets dans des communautés illettrées
Michel Banniard - Conflits et compromis langagiers en Occident latin: de la crise culturelle à l'invention linguistique (III-X siècle)
Paolo Delogu - Transformation of the Roman World: Reflections on Current Research
Thomas F.X. Noble - The Transformation of the Roman World: Reflections on Five Years of Work
Ian Wood - Modes of Communication: An Afterword