IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1523: Transforming Borders: Constructing Identities in Late Antiquity, I
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Roland Steinacher, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Veronika Egetenmeyr, Arbeitsbereich Alte Geschichte Historisches Institut Universität Greifswald |
| Paper 1523-a | Imagined Borders, Literary Frontiers, and Ethnography (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1523-b | Between Decadence and Despotism: Identity and Political Boundaries in the Sasanian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1523-c | The Border Regions of the Merovingian Kingdom and Their Dukes (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Military History |
| Abstract | Our sessions aim to question the interrelation of borders and emerging identities. The first session will discuss various theoretical notions and terminological problems of 'borders' in Late Antiquity. The second session will highlight case studies from the Orient to the Occident. Societies developed in border regions, e. g. the Franks and Alamanni on the Rhine, the Vandals and Goths at the lower Danube. At the Eastern border where the Roman Empire bordered the Persian one various Arab confederations came into being. Whether physical and mental borders in the Orient and the Occident had different meanings and specific shapes throughout late Antiquity is in the center of interest. |