Erasure was, paradoxically, a conspicuous phenomenon in Late Antiquity. This is evidenced by the practices associated with so-called damnatio memoriae, changes in physical space, and broad processes of religious and cultural change. While the theme of erasure is attracting increased interest across a wide range of disciplines, there have been few attempts to consider erasure as a more general phenomenon, to study it from a multidisciplinary perspective and to ask what, if anything, was unique about erasure in Late Antiquity?
This volume, edited by Kay Boers, Becca Grose, Rebecca Usherwood, and Guy Walker, brings together eight essays, each reflecting on the phenomenon of erasure and the various methodologies used in its investigation. Taking a broad theoretical, chronological, and thematic scope, the contributions to this volume reflect on the processes of erasure, and the strategies, agencies, and authorities behind them. Collectively, the contributions seek to understand erasure as a flexible and diverse phenomenon that is identifiable in various discursive fields of late antique visual, material, and textual cultures.
Publication date: June, 2024
Pages: 293, colour
ISBN 978-615-6696-26-7 Paperback, €46.00ISBN 978-615-6696-25-0 Hardcover, €79.00
eISBN 978-615-6696-27-4 eBook, €46.00
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Kay Boers, Becca Grose, Rebecca Usherwood, Guy Walker
CHAPTER 1. The Erasure of Humanity in Late Antique Christian Narratives of PunishmentKelly Holob
CHAPTER 2. Elision as Erasure: The Three Hebrews and the Magi on Fourth-Century Christian SarcophagiMiriam A. Hay
CHAPTER 3. Contesting the Erasure of Paganism: Claudian and Christianization at the Court of HonoriusBenjamin Kybett
CHAPTER 4. Epigraphic Erasures beyond Damnatio Memoriae: Iconoclasm and “Grammatoclasm” in Late AntiquityAnna M. Sitz
CHAPTER 5. Spolia and Epigraphical Erasure at the Church of Mary in EphesusMali Skotheim
CHAPTER 6. Erasing the Ethereal: Christian Attempts at Delegitimizing GhostsRyan Denson
CHAPTER 7. Conspicuous Absences in Late Antique Gallic Funerary Texts, VI-VII Centuries CE: Errors, Erasures, or Inscribing Uncertainty?Becca Grose
CHAPTER 8. Concluding Reflections: Erasures and Rewritings in Space and TimeMark Humphries
Notes on Contributors
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