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IMC 2016: Sessions

Session 703: Digitising Patterns of Power, III: Flocks, Farms, and Frontiers

Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:'Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP): Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World', Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser:Mihailo Popović, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:Mihailo Popović, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 703-aThe Vlachs in Medieval Macedonia: Restless Nomadic Neighbours?
(Language: English)
David Schmid, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Charters and Diplomatics, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History
Paper 703-bHow to Grasp Restless Nomadic Neighbours in Computer Science: A Case Study on Prilep
(Language: English)
Bernhard Koschicek, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 703-cBetween Conflict and Symbiosis: Sedentary and Nomadic Communities across the 12th-13th-Century Byzantine-Turkish Frontier
(Language: English)
Ekaterini Mitsiou, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Economics - Rural, Geography and Settlement Studies
Abstract

The project Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP) focuses on the depiction and analysis of space and place in medieval written sources, of the interaction between built and natural environment, of appropriation of space and of the emergence of new political, religious), and economic structures of power. DPP compares three regions of the medieval world: the Eastern Alps (6th-12th centuries), the historical region of Macedonia (12th-14th centuries) and historical Southern Armenia (5th-11th centuries). In this session an emphasis will be put on two different case studies, namely the nomads in the historical region of Macedonia (i.e. the Vlachs) and on border societies in Asia Minor in the 12th-13th centuries.