IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1214: The Caucasus: A Region of Borders?, I - The Caucasus as Political Borderland
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Caucasus Network & Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
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| Organiser: | John Latham-Sprinkle, Department of History, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Tara L. Andrews, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern |
| Paper 1214-a | Was the North Caucasus Part of the Byzantine Empire?: Boundaries, Suzerainty, and Segmentary Polities in Medieval West Eurasia (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1214-b | Marking the Lion's Scent: Georgian Borders between Idea and Reality (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1214-c | North-Eastern South Caucasian Unknown Medieval Sites for the Reinforcement of Borders with the North Caucasus (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Architecture - Secular, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The Caucasus, standing between Anatolia, the Iranian Plateau and the steppes of Eurasia, has long been considered a quintessential borderland between the empires of medieval West Eurasia. However, less study has been devoted to the implications of this status for the peoples of the Caucasus, and how it was perceived during the medieval period. This session will concentrate on how borders in the Caucasus were conceptualised, both by the elites of foreign imperial powers (Byzantium) and by those of Caucasian polities (Georgia and Alania). It will introduce evidence for perceptions of borders from a wide variety of sources, including archaeology, narrative sources, geographical compendia, and liturgy. |