[classicsnw] TODAY: AWS 20 March Birgit van der Lans - "Christians and the written media of imperial government in the Antonine period"

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2017 08:56:43 +0100

Dear all,

This is to remind you of the next Ancient World Seminar. On March 20, we
are welcoming *Birgit van der Lans* who will elaborate on her research
on religion and diplomacy in the Roman world in a lecture entitled:

*Christians and the written media of imperial government in the Antonine
period*

Around the mid-second century CE, Christians reportedly began to approach
the Roman emperors through petitions and speeches to complain about the
opposition they were experiencing and about false accusations and unfair
trials when Christians were brought before the Roman courts. While in some
cases we only hear of such individuals through later authors like Eusebius,
in other cases writings survive that are packaged as the petitions (Justin
Martyr’s *1 Apology*) or diplomatic speeches (Athenagoras’ *Legatio*)
addressed to the Antonine emperors. The discussion about the form these
texts take has focused on questions of authenticity: were they meant to be
delivered to and read by the emperor, or rather designed for an internal
Christian readership? Yet deciding for either reality or fiction does not
sufficiently appreciate the cultural choices underlying the framing of
texts. This paper discusses these Christian writings in the framework of
the Roman system of petition and response and the variegated uses made by
subjects of the texts generated by interactions with the imperial
government. Building on recent approaches that question rigid boundaries
between documents and literature, it borrows concepts from media theory
that help us better understand the creative appropriation of documents and
its implications for our understanding of Roman political culture.
*Birgit van der Lans researches the relation between religion and diplomacy
in the Roman world as a guest researcher at the University of Bergen
(Norway) and works on a PhD thesis on Jews and Christians in first-century
Rome at the University of Groningen. She is currently co-organising an
exhibition on ancient Palmyra at Bryggens museum in Bergen.*

The session takes place, as usual, in *room 130* of the Faculty of Theology
and Religious Studies (Oude Boteringestraat 38, Groningen), *16.15 – 17.30*.

Join us for drinks afterwards!

--
Eelco Glas
PhD candidate in
Theology and Religious Studies

on behalf of the CRASIS team
University of Groningen

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[classicsnw] TODAY: AWS 20 March Birgit van der Lans - "Christians and the written media of imperial government in the Antonine period"

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