IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 1229: Frontiers of Late Antiquity, III: Bureaucratic Frontiers

Organisers:	Jonathan Arnold, Department of History, University of Tulsa Samuel Cohen, Department of History, Sonoma State University, California
Moderator/Chair:	Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow
Paper 1229-a	The Strip of Death: Gregory of Nazianzus and the Border between Eastern and Western Episcopate (Language: English) Fabian Schulz, Seminar für Alte Geschichte Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Greek
Paper 1229-b	Carrying Letters across Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Hope Williard, Library, University of Lincoln Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1229-c	The Borders of Bureaucracy: Female Political Servants at Late Ancient Courts (Language: English) Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Index terms: Gender Studies, Political Thought
Abstract	The third session in our series considers the topic of bureaucratic frontiers (which is much more interesting than it initially may sound!). More specifically, papers in this session examine issues related to communication, diplomacy, and political integration across the frontiers of the late antique Mediterranean and beyond, gender and bureaucracy, as well as how frontiers were conceptualized in late antique polemical and religious sources.