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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 824: 'The Seed and Origin of All the Ruin and Various Disasters': Nomads from the Perspective of Sedentary People from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:Daniel Syrbe, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen
Moderator/Chair:Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen
Paper 824-aNorth African Moors and the So-Called 'Discourse on Nomads', 6th Century
(Language: English)
Daniel Syrbe, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen
Index terms: Anthropology, Byzantine Studies, Mentalities
Paper 824-bThe Cumans in Hungary: A Nomad-Sedentary Interaction from an Archaeozoological Perspective
(Language: English)
Kyra Lyublyanovics, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Anthropology, Archaeology - General, Mentalities
Abstract

In written sources from Antiquity and the Middle Ages nomads appear as the cultural antipodes of sedentary people. This image of nomads in texts produced exclusively by authors from sedentary contexts has been considered as topic and formed by stereotypes. Recent research in contrast has shown that the image of nomads is not static but continuously configured into new settings depending on political and social contexts of the authors of the sources. The aim of this session is to show the variability of the images of Nomads by means of three examples from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.