East and West : modes of communication : proceedings of the first plenary conference at Merida / edited by Evangelos Chrysos and Ian Wood

Papers presented at the first (Merida, 1994) and last (1997, Isernia) conferences of the European Science Foundation program on the transformation of the Roman world

Includes bibliographical references and index

The city of Mérida (Emerita) in the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium (VIth century A.D.) / Javier Arce -- Images as a substitute for writing / Peter Brown -- Images as a substitute for writing : a reply / Ian Wood -- Administrative language and its public deployment / N. Oikonomedes -- Some reflections on Mandarin language / Mayke de Jong -- Communicating holiness / Lennart Rydén -- The use and abuse of Latin hagiography in the early medieval West / Ian Wood -- Social language and its private deployment / Averil Cameron -- Social language, identities and the control of discourse / Walter Pohl -- Mit was für Mitteln kann einem physisch Anonymen Auctoritas Verliehen werden? / Beat Brenk -- How did rising Christianity cope with pagan sculpture? / Niels Hannestad -- Le développement des langues regionales et l'introduction d'alphabets dans des communautés illettrées / Christian Hannick -- Conflits et compromis langagiers en Occident latin : de la crise culturelle à l'invention linguistique (IIIe-Xe siècle) / Michel Banniard -- Transformation of the Roman world : reflections on current research / Paolo Delogu -- The transformation of the Roman world : reflections on five years of work -- Thomas F.X. Noble -- Modes of communication : an afterword / Ian Wood