IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 211: Natural Borders, Cultural Frontiers, Symbolical Boundaries: Byzantium and Its Neighbours in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Andra Jugănaru, School of Pastoral & Social Theology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
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Moderator/Chair: | Christopher Heath, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University |
Paper 211-a | Negotiating Emotions across Cultural Boundaries in Early Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
Paper 211-b | Crossing the Threshold of the Earthly Paradise: Going In and Out of Early Byzantine Monasteries, 4th-6th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism |
Paper 211-c | Constructing an Imperial Authority across Byzantine Cultural Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
Abstract | This session explores the complex role of borders in shaping relationships within the Byzantine space and between the Empire and its neighbors in the Early Middle Ages. In the monastic environment, natural, or constructed frontiers with the non-monastic world had a symbolical function. The physical borders of the empire acted as a cultural delineator, as they determined the way in which emotions were embodied by the Byzantines, in contrast to the Others. Yet at the periphery of the Byzantine world, in the Georgian society, the imperial authority crossed the physical and the cultural threshold of the Empire. |