IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2209: Late Antique Frontiers, II: Frontiers on the Periphery of the Roman World

Organisers:	Samuel Cohen, Department of History, Sonoma State University, California Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow
Moderator/Chair:	Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Paper 2209-a	Maritime Frontiers of Early Medieval England: Construction of Power and the Coast, 5th-7th Centuries (Language: English) Irene Bavuso, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Trade
Paper 2209-b	Cultural Poles on the Great African Rift Valley: Arabia and Ethiopia during Late Antiquity (Language: English) Valentina A. Grasso, St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History
Paper 2209-c	Examining the Boundaries between Christianity and Zoroastrianism in the Acts of the Persian Martyrs (Language: English) Natalie Reynoso, Department of Theology Fordham University Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Semitic
Abstract	This session examines late antique frontiers on the periphery of the Roman world. Papers in this session consider examples of cultural, commercial, and religious exchange and connectivity between East and West, north and south, coast and continent, and Christianity and Zoroastrianism. Furthermore, they reflect on the economic, cultural, and social relationships between the Roman centre and its periphery.