IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1213: Byzantine Borders, III: Dissolving Frontiers

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:	Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Paper 1213-a	State-Sanctioned Solutions or Local Initiatives?: Coin Supply and the Production of Imitation Coinage on the Edge of Empire (Language: English) Marcus Spencer-Brown, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Numismatics, Social History
Paper 1213-b	The Late Antique Desert: Frontier of Transformation or Interspace of Permanence? (Language: English) Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Social History
Paper 1213-c	Conjugating the Liminal: Byzantine Borders and the 18th Brumaire (Language: English) Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History
Abstract	In the third of four sessions on Byzantine borders, speakers address the interface between local and state initiatives in frontier regions, re-evaluate the desert-as-frontier trope, and look at the uses of borders in the discourses of Byzantine Studies.