IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1311: Byzantine Borders, IV
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham |
| Paper 1311-a | On the Anatolian Border: Byzantium and the Caliphate in the 7th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1311-b | Crossing Religious, Cultural, and Economic Borders in 7th-Century Egypt (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Numismatics |
| Paper 1311-c | Caliphal Patronage and Frontier Fortification in the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History |
| Paper 1311-d | The Living and the Dead: Interacting with the Deceased in Early Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History |
| Abstract | Byzantine Borders, IV is the last of four sessions to examine cultural, linguistic and historical margins within the Empire and at and across its edges. This session emphasises the geographical borders between Byzantium and the Caliphate as frontlines of innovation. After an evaluation of whether or not the concept of a frontier as a fixed border had any real meaning in the central Middle Ages, speakers explore the case studies of coins and fortifications to interrogate the validity (or not) of the concept in Early Medieval Byzantium. |