IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 142: Byzantine Border Warfare

Monday 4 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	De Re Militari: Society for Medieval Military History
Organiser:	Georgios Theotokis, Department of Italian Language & Literature, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Moderator/Chair:	Ilana Krug, Department of History & Political Science, York College of Pennsylvania
Paper 142-a	Defending Byzantium's Southern Border: Selecting Cretan and Sicilian Campaigns' Commanders in the 9th and 10th Centuries (Language: English) Dimitrios Sidiropoulos, Department of History & Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History
Paper 142-b	Transcultural Warfare in 11th-Century Anatolia (Language: English) Georgios Theotokis, Department of Italian Language & Literature, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History
Paper 142-c	Borders in Transition, Warfare, and Cultural Exchange: The Case of Florios and Platziaflora (Language: English) Konstantinos Karatolios, Department of History, University of Crete Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History
Abstract	This session seeks to highlight the challenges and realities of border conflicts and struggles pertaining to the Byzantine world in the 9th-15th centuries. The papers in this panel cover a geographic spread, addressing the varying circumstances and realities that characterised diverse regions within the Byzantine Empire. Individual papers investigate respectively the role of imperial officials and the extent of their responsibility for military disasters along the Empire's borders; the degree to which the region of Anatolia, with interactions between Byzantines, Turks, and western Christians, can be said to reflect transcultural warfare; and the phenomenon of cultural exchange within Byzantine borders as a result of warfare, evidenced in the late medieval romance Florios and Platziaflora.