IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2001: Moving Byzantium, I: Frontiers on the Move across Sea and Land

Friday 9 July 2021, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Wittgenstein-Award Project 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency', FWF Austrian National Research Foundation / Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser:	Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 2001-a	Crossing the Internal Borders: Garrisons, Reinforcements, and Mobility in the Byzantine Army (Language: English) Christos Makrypoulias, Institute of Byzantine Research, Athens Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History
Paper 2001-b	Border Identities: Local Magnates on the Byzantine-Bulgarian Frontier, 1195-1215 (Language: English) Francesco Dall'Aglio, Department of Medieval History of Bulgaria, Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History, Political Thought, Social History
Paper 2001-c	Muslim Refugees in Byzantium in the 10th-11th Centuries (Language: English) Maciej Czyż, Institute of Classic Mediterranean & Oriental Studies University of Wrocław Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies
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. This session focuses on processes of migration and exchange across external and internal borders of the Byzantine Empire between the 7th and the 13th century, integrating written sources in various languages as well as material evidence and digital methods.