Conference Programme

Wednesday 21st April 2021

Welcome & Introduction
10.00 am – 10.30 am
Marietta Horster, Anna-Lena Körfer, Christian Stadermann (Mainz), Martin Baumeister (Rome)

Panel I: Making Tradition
Chair: Verena Epp (Marburg)

10.35 am – 11.15 am
Tabea L. Meurer (Mainz): Portare principis imaginem. Negotiating office authority and principate ideology in formulae and letters of congratulations from Ostrogothic Italy.

11.20 am – 12.00 am
Christian Stadermann (Mainz): Remembering Theoderic the Great. Making Tradition and Construction of Authority at the Court of King Athalaric (526-534).

12.05 pm – 12.45 pm
Robert Kasperski (Warsaw): The dynastic tradition of the Amals. A deliberate construction?

12.45 pm – 2.00 pm
Lunch Break

Panel II: Communicating Authority
Chair: Ignazio Tantillo (Naples)

2.00 pm – 2.40 pm
Peter J. Heather (London): Render unto Caesar. Religious Authority in the Ostrogothic Kingdom.

2.45 pm – 3.25 pm
Valerié Fauvinet-Ranson (Paris): Impressionner et se distinguer. Quelques symboles utilisés par les souverains ostrogothiques.

3.25 pm – 3.40 pm
Coffee Break

3.40 pm – 4.20 pm
Marco Cristini (Pisa): Light’s Loans and Ostrogothic Helmets. Communicating Authority during the Reign of Theodahad.

Keynote
Chair: Arnaldo Marcone (Rome)
4.25 pm – 5.15 pm
Andrea Giardina (Rome): In che mondo viveva Cassiodoro.

Thursday 22th April 2021

Panel III: Aestheticizing Letters
Chair: Danuta Shanzer (Vienna)

10.00 am – 10.40 am
Anna-Lena Körfer (Mainz): Variarum nomine praenotavi. Reading Variety and Variety of Reading in Cassiodorus’ Letters.

10.45 am – 11.25 am
Willum Westenholz (Vienna): Cassiodorus iocosus: Humour and the supposed lack thereof in the Variae.

11.25 am – 11.40 am
Coffee Break

11.40 am – 12.20 pm
Raphael Schwitter (Bonn): Cassiodorus’ Synaesthesia: Iconicity and Sensory Symbolism in the Variae.

12.25 pm – 1.05 pm
Konrad Löbcke (Mainz): Between Christian Condemnation and Cultural Prestige. The Representation of the spectacula in Cassidorus’ Variae.

1.05 pm – 2.30 pm
Lunch Break

Panel IV: Digital Humanities under Construction
Chair: Andrea Rapp (Darmstadt)

2.30 pm – 3.10 pm
Tim Geelhaar (Frankfurt/Main): Corpuslingiustic evidence and historical interpretation – Digital semantic approaches towards Cassiodorus’ Variae.

3.15 pm – 3.55 pm
Jörg Hörnschemeyer, Jörg Voigt (Rome): Strengths and limits of quantitative analyses of medieval regesta collections using the example of the Repertorium Germanicum.

3.55 pm – 4.10 pm
Coffee Break

Final Discussion & Farewell
Chair: Marietta Horster (Mainz)

4.10 pm – 4.40 pm
Final discussion
Farewell: Marietta Horster, Anna-Lena Körfer, Christian Stadermann (Mainz)