IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1211: Caucasian Climates, III: A Climate of Fear?
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 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: | John Latham-Sprinkle, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Paper 1211-a | Courtly Climates: Intrigue and Faction under the 12th-Century Bagrationids (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1211-b | Looking towards Constantinople and Moscow: The Religious and Political Locus of the Caucasus in Medieval Georgian Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Hagiography |
| Abstract | The Caucasus' strategic location between Eurasian Empires led to repeated invasions by the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates and the Khazar, Byzantine and Mongol Empires. Along with the practical consequences of these invasions came bodies of imperial knowledge, frequently drawing on climate theory, and reciprocal effects on the Caucasus' various kingdoms. The papers in this panel will explore the dynamics of these relationships, including shifting eschatological perceptions of the Khazar Khaqanate; an exploration of medieval Georgian political shifts through the lens of norms in a political climate; and Mongol approaches to the military conquest of the Caucasus. |