IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1625: Transforming Borders in Late Antiquity: A Panoramic View, IV - North Africa & Conclusion

Thursday 7 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Organiser:	Jakob Riemenschneider, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Moderator/Chair:	Robin Whelan, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Respondent:	Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Paper 1625-a	The Limits of Empire, or: Why Did the Parthian and Sasanian Kings Not Try to Conquer Roman Syria before Khosrow II? (Language: English) Henning Börm, Heinrich Schliemann Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Rostock Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History
Paper 1625-b	Mike Clover and the Frontiers, Borders, and Boundaries of Vandal Africa (Language: English) Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1625-c	Changing Borders in North Africa: From the Byzantine to the Arabian Fortifications (Language: English) Philipp Margreiter, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, Universität Innsbruck Index terms: Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies
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?