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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Felicitas Schmieder, Historisches Institut, FernUniversität Hagen |
Paper 824-a | North African Moors and the So-Called 'Discourse on Nomads', 6th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Byzantine Studies, Mentalities |
Paper 824-b | The Cumans in Hungary: A Nomad-Sedentary Interaction from an Archaeozoological Perspective (Language: English) 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. |