IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1112: Late Antique and Early Medieval Networks, II: Patterns of Dissemination

Wednesday 3 July 2019, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	ERC Project CONNEC 'Connected Clerics: Building a Universal Church in the Late Antique West' / Royal Holloway, University of London
Organisers:	Victoria Leonard, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London David Natal Villazala, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad de Salamanca
Moderator/Chair:	Rebecca Darley, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
Paper 1112-a	Network Failure?: Connectivity and Fragmentation in the Late Antique Mediterranean (Language: English) Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Social History
Paper 1112-b	Networks of Glass: New Findings from a Late Antique-Medieval Quarter from Ephesus (Language: English) Luise Schintlmeister, Österreichisches Archäologisches Institut, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Computing in Medieval Studies, Social History
Paper 1112-c	Networks of Cemeteries: Early Medieval Burials from Austria and the Czech Republic as Object-Oriented Networks (Language: English) Stefan Eichert, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Archaeology - General, Computing in Medieval Studies, Social History
Abstract	Recent research is starting to question previous assumptions about the regionalisation of the post-Roman worlds. This session, the second on the topic, analyses examples of how specific structures of networks produced different patterns of dissemination of commodities, which respectively hindered or fostered fragmentation.