IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 117: Governmental Assistance in Becoming Poor: Evidence from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Sponsor:	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Project 'Gotische Kriegergruppen im spätrömischen Reich', Research Unit 1101 'Gewaltgemeinschaften'
Organiser:	Guido M. Berndt, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Moderator/Chair:	Guy Halsall, Department of History, University of York
Paper 117-a	Fines, Penalties, and Confiscations in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Political Thought
Paper 117-b	Who is the Barbarian? Officers, Warlords, and Robbers: A 5th-Century Confusion (Language: English) Roland Steinacher, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 117-c	Changing Status: Gothic Cases of Fortune and Impoverishment (Language: English) Guido M. Berndt, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Index terms: Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval
Abstract	The purpose of this session is to explore some of the mechanisms of loosing status from the perspective of individuals, groups, and peoples who suffer the effects of governmental action as being looted and robbed or have their property confiscated. The three papers analyze different types of sources concerning impoverishment in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.