IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1211: Byzantine Borders, III
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham |
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Organiser: | Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Margaret E. Mullett, Department of Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC |
Paper 1211-a | Biological Boundaries?: Defining the Life-Stage in Late Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Social History |
Paper 1211-b | Women, Borders, and Diplomacy (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 1211-c | On the Borders of Byzantine Art (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies |
Abstract | Byzantine Borders, III is the third of four sessions to examine cultural, linguistic, and historical margins within the Empire and at and across its edges. Session III focusses on people and artisanal products. The first paper introduces the methodological approach of Life Course Studies to late Byzantium (13th-15th centuries) and establishes the biological boundaries recognised by Byzantines during this period. The second paper analyses the role of women in transgressing political boundaries, and gender as a component of diplomacy. The final paper evaluates the extent to which 'Byzantine art' can be seen as a genuine category of analysis: does this methodological boundary mean anything to scholars with an increasingly global outlook? |