IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 240: The Caucasus as Borderland, II: Empires and Borders in the South Caucasus
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Jonathan Shepard, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford |
| Paper 240-a | The Role of Georgian Monasteries in Delineation of Political and Cultural Borders with Byzantium and the Muslim World (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 240-b | Polities as Borders?: 12th-Century Georgia and Its Neighbours (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 240-c | Taming the Frontier: Chormaqan and the Conquest of Transcaucasia (Language: English) Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Like their neighbours to the North, the largely Christian polities of the South Caucasus were, to a large extent, defined by the eternal question of how to navigate the ambitions of competing empires. In such a situation, the definition of borders took on a fundamental importance in processes of identity formation. This panel will explore how borders were (re-)drawn in the medieval South Caucasus, whether through religious patronage, the incorporation of border marches, or military force. |