IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 140: The Caucasus as Borderland, I: Forming North Caucasian Identities in the Shadow of the Empires
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Caucasus Network |
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| Organisers: | James Baillie, Independent Scholar, Birmingham John Latham-Sprinkle, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | James Baillie, Independent Scholar, Birmingham |
| Paper 140-a | The 'Enclosed People': The Role of the Caucasus in Shaping the Nomadic Khazar Empire, 7th-10th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 140-b | Shadow Economies in the Early Medieval North Caucasus (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Byzantine Studies, Economics - General, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 140-c | The Alan Capital *Magas: A New Identification of Its Location (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The diverse peoples of the medieval North Caucasus found themselves caught between surrounding empires- Byzantium, the Umayyad and 'Abbasid Caliphates, the Khazar Khaqanate. This session will explore the influences that this frontier position had on the identity of the peoples of the North Caucasus- from their political identity to cosmological systems of belief. Moreover, it will take this analysis further, by examining how the presence of a highly militarised frontier zone in turn contributed to the political development of the empires that competed over it. |