The Deaths of Dogs and the Lives of Dedicated Ritual Spaces
Dogs were not only good to think with in the Roman period or to deploy when meditating on, performing, or normalizing Roman society’s stark inequalities. They were also central participants in acts undertaken to mediate between the everyday and the uncanny. In this lecture we explore their roles in engaging with the divine at temples, shrines, and in cemeteries.
The links to the talks will be posted here:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-lectures-british-history
Date:
11 February 2022, 16:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2022)
Venue:
Online
Speaker:
Professor Robin Fleming (Boston College)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
The James Ford Lectures in British History 2022, Dogsbodies and Dogs' Bodies: A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain's Dogs and People
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
