IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 313: Interactions across Borders in the Late Antique, Early Medieval, and Byzantine World, III: Migration and the Spatial Context of Urban Borders in Late Antiquity
Monday 4 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | South West & Wales 'Late Antique, Early Medieval & Byzantine Network' (SWW LAEMB) |
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Organiser: | Josh Littell, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
Moderator/Chair: | Laura Stops, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter |
Paper 313-a | Jordanes at the Border of the Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 313-b | The Impact of Geographic Borders on the Development of Urban Centres in Southeast Europe during Late Antiquity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Local History, Social History |
Paper 313-c | So Far and No Further: Spatial Semantics and Borders as a Means of Social Control and Surveillance in Late Antique Church Communities, c. 300 - c. 500 (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Sermons and Preaching |
Abstract | This panel will examine the significance of borders, both physical and semantic, in the context of Late Antique urban populations. Our first paper by Shane Bjornlie will examine migration and its effect on the cultural and political borders of the Roman world as conceptualised in the works of Jordanes. Our second paper by Fraser Reed analyses urbanism within Late Antique Thrace and how geographical borders caused diversity and difference in the development of Thracian urban centres. Michael J. Hahn's paper explores how semantic borders in urban early Christianity were constructed to manage perceived deviancy among parishioners. |