IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 213: Interactions across Borders in the Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine World, II: Crossing and Defending Sea Borders
Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | South West & Wales 'Late Antique, Early Medieval & Byzantine Network' (SWW LAEMB) |
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Organiser: | Laura Stops, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
Moderator/Chair: | Josh Littell, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
Respondent: | Josh Littell, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
Paper 213-a | From Classis Britannica to Saxon Shore: Naval Forces in Later Roman Britain, 3rd-5th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
Paper 213-b | Borders within the Kingdom: The Reflection of Norman Sicily's Religious and Cultural Tensions within the Tristia (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Daily Life |
Paper 213-c | Some Remarks on the Herule Pirate Attack of the Year 456 in the Vardulliarum loca maritima (Language: English) Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
Abstract | The first paper will explore the evolution of Roman coastal authority in Britain from the Classis Britannica to the Count of the Saxon Shore and the scale and the duties of the Roman military in protecting and maintaining the maritime borders of the Empire. The second paper will investigate the boundaries, liminalities, tensions and co-existence of Byzantine, Arabic and Norman influences in 12th century Sicily as presented in the Tristia ex Melitogaudo, and thus explore interactions across the Mediterranean Sea. Our respondent will then discuss how maritime borders can represent possibilities for defence and exclusion, as well as a border permeable to trade and influence. |