IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1226: Frontiers of Late Antiquity, III: Bureaucratic Frontiers

Organisers:	Jonathan Arnold, Department of History, University of Tulsa Samuel Cohen, Department of History, Sonoma State University, California
Moderator/Chair:	Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow
Paper 1226-a	The Strip of Death: Gregory of Nazianzus and the Border between the Eastern and Western Episcopate (Language: English) Fabian Schulz, Seminar für Alte Geschichte Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Greek
Paper 1226-b	The Letter Carrier at the limes (Language: English) Hope Williard, Library, University of Lincoln Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1226-c	(Ex)Communication Strategies: Governors at the Boundaries of the Church in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge Index terms: Gender Studies, Political Thought
Abstract	The third session in our series considers the topic of bureaucratic frontiers (which is much more interesting than it initially may sound!). More specifically, papers in this session examine issues related to communication, diplomacy, and political integration across the frontiers of the late antique Mediterranean and beyond, the management of the bureaucracy, as well as how frontiers were conceptualized in late antique polemical and religious sources.