IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 520: The Komnenian Empire, I: La Belle Époque Finale de Rome?
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Oxford University Byzantine Society |
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Organiser: | Nicholas Matheou, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford |
Moderator/Chair: | Nicholas Matheou, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford |
Paper 520-a | Alexios Komnenos: Saviour or Nemesis? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 520-b | Space of the Seljuks, Place of the Seljuks: The Seljuk Turks in the Imagined Geography of Byzantine Rhetoric of the Komnenian Era (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Rhetoric, Social History |
Paper 520-c | Western Input in the Komnenian Army (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History |
Abstract | The Komnenian Dynasty heralded a crucial period for the medieval Roman Empire, with antique Rome's two Christian children in closer contact than ever before. The Empire remained a 'superpower', campaigning across the central and eastern Mediterranean. Imperial coinage remained the Mediterranean standard, and the era produced some of the greatest Byzantine historiographers in the so-called Komnenian Renaissance. Yet was the Komnenian achievement a successful recovery from the 11th-century crisis, or a temporary solution in some ways contributory to the decline of c.1180-1204? This session will address these issues. |