IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 636: Moving Byzantium, II: In and out of Byzantium
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Wittgenstein-Prize Project of the Austrian National Research Foundation (FWF): 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency', Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Organiser: | Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Emilio Bonfiglio, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 636-a | Mobility as Craft: Byzantium and Its 'Acquisitional' Northern Neighbours (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Economics - General, Social History |
| Paper 636-b | The Materialities of Byzantine Cultural and Geographical Mobility in the Early Medieval Western Balkans, c. 565-800 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies, Economics - Rural |
| Paper 636-c | Moving to Southern Italy: Greek-Speaking People and Oral Literature from the East to the West during the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Byzantine Studies, Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Greek |
| Abstract | The project 'Moving Byzantium' highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyses the internal flexibility of Byzantine society. It aims to contribute to a re-evaluation of a society and culture that has traditionally been depicted as stiff, rigid, and encumbered by its own tradition. This will be achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, microstructures, and personal agency. This session is devoted to cultural and geographical mobility into and out of the Byzantine Empire, both within the Mediterranean as well as from and to neighbouring regions in the North and the East. Innovative theoretical approaches will come to bear in the discussion of new archaeological and textual evidence. |