IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2101: Moving Byzantium, II: Trade and Arts on the Move across Borders and Routes

Friday 9 July 2021, 11.15-12.45

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:	Grigori Simeonov, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien
Paper 2101-a	Mobility of Commodities and Communities: The Trade System of the Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of the Crusades, Late 11th - Mid-14th Centuries (Language: English) Katerina Ragkou, Fachgebiet Christliche Archäologie und Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte Philipps-Universität Marburg Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Economics - Trade
Paper 2101-b	Beyond the Borders of Byzantium: Artistic Mobility in the Eastern Mediterranean after the Fourth Crusade (Language: English) Ioanna Christoforaki, Research Centre for Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Art, Academy of Athens Index terms: Art History - Painting, Art History - Sculpture, Byzantine Studies, Crusades
Paper 2101-c	Cultural Mobility in Adulis, Eritrea: New Data on Marble Trade and Architectural Models (Language: English) Božana Maletić, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana Sapienza Università di Roma Matteo Pola, Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana Sapienza Università di Roma Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies
Paper 2101-d	New Tablets for the New Israel: The Translation of Relics and Byzantine Supersessionism under Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (Language: English) Karin Krause, Kunsthistorisches Seminar, Universität Basel Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Biblical Studies, Byzantine Studies, Religious Life
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.