IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1325: Transforming Borders in Late Antiquity: A Panoramic View, II - Middle and Lower Danube Provinces

Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00

Organiser:	Mateusz Fafinski, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Moderator/Chair:	Astrid Schmölzer, Institut für Archäologie, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Paper 1325-a	What Happened When Roman Frontiers Collapsed: The Lower Danube Limes Zone in the 7th to 8th Centuries (Language: English) Alexander Sarantis, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Social History
Paper 1325-b	Warrior Graves in Border Zones: an Archaeological Glance at the Lower Danube (Language: English) Regina M. Molitor, Graduiertenkolleg 2304 'Byzanz und die euromediterranen Kriegskulturen: Austausch, Abgrenzung, Rezeption', Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History
Paper 1325-c	In the Service of Rome?: Mobility and Ethnic Interpretation of the Shield Bosses with a Star-Shaped Flange and Faceted / Fluted Bowls along the Roman Danube Frontier (Language: English) Marko Jelusić, Zentrum für Kulturgüterschutz, Donau-Universität Krems Index terms: Archaeology - General, Military History
Abstract	These sessions offer an archaeological as well as historical approach to Roman border regions. We define these territories as complex areas of interaction, combining both Roman and non-Roman elements, differing from the Imperium and the Barbaricum. Frontier zones and societies saw a specific regional and local milieu in the Near East, North Africa, Britain or along the Danube and the Rhine. Are there supra-regional similarities, are the socio-political conditions all too different?