IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 226: Frontiers of Late Antiquity, I: The Frontiers of Roman and Barbarian Identity
Monday 5 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Adrastos Omissi, School of Humanities (Classics), University of Glasgow |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Usherwood, School of Classics, University of St Andrews |
Paper 226-a | Scythians and Getae: Shifting Ethnographies in the Late Antique Danubian Borderland (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History |
Paper 226-b | The Danube as a Physical and Symbolic Frontier in the 4th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History |
Abstract | This session explores one of the Late Antique world's most important frontiers, that which divided the Roman Empire from barbarian Europe. The papers explore the frontier between Roman and barbarian both as a negotiated cultural idea (Hart) and as a physical border (Salvo). |