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Dogs in Everyday Religion
In this lecture, we investigate how everyday religion happened materially in Roman Britain. Religion for most people on most days was about doing rather than philosophizing and about deploying materials of religion in ways that protected, cured, cursed, or communicated with otherworldly powers and entities. Fortunately, some of the period’s materials of religion, including the remains of over 1,500 dogs, survive. This evidence opens up a window into the less discursive, more experiential religion that was so much a part of everyday life, enacted and experienced not only at temples, shrines, and cemeteries, but in farmyards, kitchens, and alongside property boundaries, where people participating in ritual activities often reached––with knife in hand––for a dog.
The links to the talks will be posted here:
www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-lectures-british-history
Date:
18 February 2022, 16:00
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
