IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1525: Transforming Borders in Late Antiquity: A Panoramic View, III - Eastern Provinces

Organiser:	Astrid Schmölzer, Institut für Archäologie, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Moderator/Chair:	Mischa Meier, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Paper 1525-a	Imperium sine fine?: The Iranian Perspective on Late Antique Borders (Language: English) Marc Tipold, Historisches Institut Universität Potsdam Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 1525-b	Written in the Desert: Organisational and Infrastructural Matters in the Bu Njem Ostraca (Language: English) Hanna Fritz, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, Universität Innsbruck Index terms: Epigraphy, Local History
Paper 1525-c	Here and There, Us and Them: Imagined Borders and Belonging in the 6th-Century Roman East (Language: English) Jakob Riemenschneider, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Social 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, or along the Danube and the Rhine. Are there supra-regional similarities, are the socio-political conditions all too different?