IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 209: Bringing in the Alans, I: Alans and the Outside World
Monday 3 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
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| Organisers: | Nicholas Evans, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien John Latham-Sprinkle, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Nicholas Evans, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 209-a | The Alans in the West and Assimilation (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 209-b | The Rise of Christianity in North Caucasian Alania (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 209-c | The Last Charge of Alan Cavalry in the West (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History |
| Abstract | This is the first of two sessions on the Alans, a people of the steppe and North Caucasus, and the state they founded there, Alania- one of the least-known of all medieval kingdoms. One of the more remarkable facets of Alan culture were the repeated movements of both individuals and wider groups. Moreover, the outside world exerted a powerful influence on Alania, most notably in the state adoption of Christianity. This session aims to provide insights into how far we can understand Alania through these processes of interaction, and how far Alania provides an exception to these processes at large. |