For a long time, the end of the Roman Empire was told as a brutal collapse: barbarian invasions, burnt cities, puppet emperors and an ancient world engulfed in the din of battle.
This twilight vision, inherited from an outdated historiography, has the advantage of simplicity. It does, however, betray the complexity of reality. For an empire does not disappear overnight. It is transformed, fragmented, folded and sometimes rebuilt.
And above all, while certain political structures falter, forms of continuity assert themselves, be they administrative, cultural, artistic or social.
Between the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476 and the great upheavals of the 7th century, the Roman world experienced not so much a brutal end as a long series of metamorphoses. Terra Nobilis and Océanides invite you to explore this pivotal period, all too often reduced to a mere prelude to the Middle Ages, during a day organized around two complementary conferences.
One will revisit the political and military upheavals of the late Empire; the other will highlight a more discreet but equally essential reality: the persistence of an art of luxury, technical refinement and exceptional material culture well into the last centuries of Antiquity.
On the program:
MORNING ? FIRST LECTURE: THE FALL OF ROME (476?636)
LUNCH BREAK AT RESTAURANT LES VIGNES
AFTERNOON - SECOND LECTURE: THE ART OF GLASS AT THE END OF THE EMPIRE: LUXURY, VIRTUOSITY AND POWER
Full-day price (2 lectures and lunch): 60 ?
Rate for 2 lectures: 30 ?
Rate for 1 lecture: 15 ?
Limited to 22 people for the restaurant.
This twilight vision, inherited from an outdated historiography, has the advantage of simplicity. It does, however, betray the complexity of reality. For an empire does not disappear overnight. It is transformed, fragmented, folded and sometimes rebuilt.
And above all, while certain political structures falter, forms of continuity assert themselves, be they administrative, cultural, artistic or social.
Between the deposition of Romulus Augustulus in 476 and the great upheavals of the 7th century, the Roman world experienced not so much a brutal end as a long series of metamorphoses. Terra Nobilis and Océanides invite you to explore this pivotal period, all too often reduced to a mere prelude to the Middle Ages, during a day organized around two complementary conferences.
One will revisit the political and military upheavals of the late Empire; the other will highlight a more discreet but equally essential reality: the persistence of an art of luxury, technical refinement and exceptional material culture well into the last centuries of Antiquity.
On the program:
MORNING ? FIRST LECTURE: THE FALL OF ROME (476?636)
LUNCH BREAK AT RESTAURANT LES VIGNES
AFTERNOON - SECOND LECTURE: THE ART OF GLASS AT THE END OF THE EMPIRE: LUXURY, VIRTUOSITY AND POWER
Full-day price (2 lectures and lunch): 60 ?
Rate for 2 lectures: 30 ?
Rate for 1 lecture: 15 ?
Limited to 22 people for the restaurant.