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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1313: Byzantine Borders, IV: Byzantium, Post-Colonialism, and the Making of Modern Borders

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

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:Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies / Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham
Paper 1313-aMirror of Our Dreams: The Implicit Indian Ocean in Byzantine Historiography
(Language: English)
Rebecca Darley, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History
Paper 1313-bByzantine Borders and British Desires: The Creation of the Negev 'Frontier'
(Language: English)
Daniel K. Reynolds, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History
Paper 1313-c'Our bold warrior King Richard': Richard I and the Limits of Imperialism on British Cyprus
(Language: English)
Antonios Savva, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract

In the final session on Byzantine borders, speakers focus directly on a theme that has run through the preceding three sessions: the impact of historiography on modern belief. All look at how the past has been re-imagined, reconstructed and, sometimes, invented to lead, inexorably, to modern conceptions of space and boundaries.