IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1629: Late Antique Frontiers, II: Frontiers on the Periphery of the Roman World
Thursday 9 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Samuel Cohen, Department of History, Sonoma State University, California Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews |
Paper 1629-a | Maritime Frontiers of Early Medieval England: Construction of Power and the Coast, 5th-7th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Trade, Social History |
Paper 1629-b | Cultural Poles on the Great African Rift Valley: Arabia and Ethiopia during Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
Paper 1629-c | Contending with Conversion in the Sasanian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Semitic |
Abstract | This session examines late antique frontiers on the periphery of the Roman world. Papers in this session consider examples of cultural, commercial, and religious exchange and connectivity between East and West, north and south, coast and continent, and Christianity and Zoroastrianism. Furthermore, they reflect on the economic, cultural, and social relationships between the Roman centre and its periphery. |