IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1113: Byzantine Borders, II: The Problem with Borders

Sponsor:	Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Organiser:	Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Luca Zavagno, Department of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta
Paper 1113-a	The Problem with Borders (Language: English) Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Social History
Paper 1113-b	Ecclesiastical Buildings of Naples under Byzantine Rule, c. 660-1000 (Language: English) Nila Namsechi, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Byzantine Studies, Monasticism
Paper 1113-c	Bodies of Evidence: Byzantinists and the Use of Human Remains (Language: English) Laura M. Clark, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies
Abstract	In the second of four sessions on Byzantine borders, speakers address the methodological and theoretical problem of borders in the pre-modern world, then turn to the specific case of (what is now) Italy under Byzantine rule, with particular attention the ideological baggage that the label 'Italo-Byzantine' assumes.