IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1017: Loyalty, Wealth, and Conspiracy in the 6th Century

Sponsor:	Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main / Sonderforschungsbereich 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', Freie Universität Berlin
Organiser:	Wolfram Brandes, Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main
Moderator/Chair:	Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Paper 1017-a	Financing Hagia Sophia: High Treason, Proscription, and Justinian's Financial Policy (Language: English) Wolfram Brandes, Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Urban, Law, Political Thought
Paper 1017-b	Shifting Loyalties, Money, and Discourse in Ostrogothic Italy (Language: English) Kai Grundmann, Sonderforschungsbereich 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', Freie Universität Berlin Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Law, Political Thought
Abstract	In 6th-century politics, both in Byzantium and the Early Medieval West, the charge of treason was an important means of fighting political conflict. The session's papers seek to investigate, to what extent these conflicts were dominated by economic interest and who took advantage from these conflicts. The cases under scrutiny come from Italy and Byzantium.