Naslov
Constructing “the places of power” in Late Antiquity: the case of Krk island

Autori
Krleža, Palmira

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
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Skup
28th Annual International Symposium of the International Research Centre for Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (IRCLAMA) "Medieval humanisms, medieval renaissances – do they exist and how are they manifested between Antiquity and the Renaissance"

Mjesto i datum
Rab, Hrvatska, 30.09.2021. - 03.10.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
place of power, Late Antiquity, Krk island

Sažetak
The concept of a “place of power” entails a symbolic place, which serves as means to express power in spatial relations, but also to represent space inside the power structure itself. The point of the places of power is to legitimize the authority of certain social groups that create it and to influence the construction of collective identities. In the context of the post-Roman period, the manner in which power was represented in the spatial context differs from the Antiquity in the few key differences, of course depending on the geographical and socio-political contexts, as is elaborated in the collection of studies Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages. The Transformation of the Roman World, published by Brill in 2001. The first is the replacement of the city-based Roman world with the plurality of the locations of power that, besides cities, became palaces, fortifications, monasteries and other ecclesiastical foundations.In other words, the locations of power became more decentralized and less institutionalized in the post-Roman West. Second very important component to researching the places of power in this period is their relations to the places of power of their past, more precisely, the ever relevant question of continuity and/or discontinuity between the Antiquity and Late Antique and early medieval periods. On the basis of the fore-going conclusions, the goal of this paper is to examine the situation on the case study of the island of Krk and to see how the places of power are constructed, reconstructed and manipulated during the period of the “long” Late Antiquity and moreover, how do they relate to the ones from the Roman past.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest, Povijest umjetnosti, Arheologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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