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 |
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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-a | Mirror of Our Dreams: The Implicit Indian Ocean in Byzantine Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Social History |
Paper 1313-b | Byzantine Borders and British Desires: The Creation of the Negev 'Frontier' (Language: English) 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) 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. |