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SUMMARY:The Myth of the First City in the Earlier Middle Ages - Sam Ottewi
 ll-Soulsby\, Faculty of Classics
DTSTART:20171017T121000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Arthur Dudney
DESCRIPTION:The idea of a mythical first city appears in most societies th
 at possess urban settlements\, and medieval Europe was no exception. This 
 talk will discuss the way medieval writers approached the origins of urban
  living\, a subject which acquired importance in a wide variety of areas o
 f study\, including history writing\, philosophy and legal theory. People 
 who engaged with the problem had to reckon with both the Biblical first ci
 ty of Cain and anthropological models inherited from the Classical world. 
 Examination of how these writers solved these issues sheds light not just 
 on their understanding of the primordial past\, but also their views of th
 e city and human civilisation as a whole.
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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