IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1601: Between Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, II: The Climate of Leadership between Ērānshahr and the Eastern Roman Empire
Thursday 8 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) / Cardiff Centre of Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University |
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| Organisers: | Domiziana Rossi, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università di Bologna Sean Strong, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Domiziana Rossi, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università di Bologna |
| Paper 1601-a | Persian Military Officers: Social and Geographical Mobility in the Late Sasanian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Genealogy and Prosopography, Military History, Social History |
| Paper 1601-b | Imperial Sacred Violence: Heraclius and Ideological Climate Change between Byzantium and Sasanian Persia (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Mentalities, Military History, Political Thought |
| Paper 1601-c | Vindicated, Dismissed, or Crushed: Roman-Sasanian Generalship and Punishment in the Late 6th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Military History |
| Abstract | The Near East in Late Antiquity constituted, mostly, as a theatre of conflict as well as a geographically active diplomatic zone between the Eastern Roman Empire and Ērānshahr. The climate was not always hostile, but when it did transition into a war zone, secure and successful leadership at a royal and military level were needed in order for success. This session provides a prosopographical study of Sasanian military leadership, an examination into the intellectual climate of war under the Emperor Heraclius, and lastly, a paper discussing what it meant to lose for Roman and Persian generals in Late Antiquity. |