IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 611: Moving Byzantium, II: Trade and Arts on the Move across Borders and Routes
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Wittgenstein-Award Project, Austrian National Research Foundation (FWF) 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency in Byzantium', Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Organiser: | Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Grigori Simeonov, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 611-a | Cultural Mobility in Adulis, Eritrea: New Data on the Marble Trade and Architectural Models (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies |
| Paper 611-b | Mobility of Commodities and Communities: The Trade System of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of the Crusades, Late 11th to Mid 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Economics - Trade |
| Paper 611-c | Beyond the Borders of Byzantium: Artistic Mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Fourth Crusade (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Painting, Art History - Sculpture, Byzantine Studies, Crusades |
| Abstract | The project 'Moving Byzantium' highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyses the internal flexibility of Byzantine society. It aims to contribute to a re-evaluation of a society and culture that has traditionally been depicted as stiff, rigid, and encumbered by its own tradition. This will be achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, microstructures, and personal agency. In this session, the mobility of material culture due to commercial and artistic exchange as well as movements of merchants, artisans and ideas are explored across the entire Byzantine Millennium within the Mediterranean and beyond, all the way to East Africa. |