IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 515: Conflict and Integration: Crossing Medieval Borders, I - Permeable Borders
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Queen's University Belfast |
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Organisers: | Karen Pinto, Department of History, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania Elisa Ramazzina, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
Moderator/Chairs: | Karen Pinto, Department of History, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania Elisa Ramazzina, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
Paper 515-a | Medieval Cyprus: Art on the Border (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Byzantine Studies |
Paper 515-b | Ghazā Fulān al-ṣāʾifa: Concubine-Born Sons (Hajīns) and the Legitimising Features of the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier in the Marwānid Period, 684-750 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 515-c | Political Ritual and Collective Identity When Campaigning Abroad: 12th-Century Italian Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History, Political Thought, Social History |
Abstract | This first session explores the ambivalent function of borders, as they trigger both conflict and integration and their nature is double, being fixed but also permeable and flexible at the same time. Paper -a considers the Lusignan Kingdom of Cyprus as a borderland entailing different ethnic groups, different religions and different 'power centres', and analyses it through its visual culture, especially the architecture. Paper -b demonstrates how the Islamic-Byzantine frontier served to generate independent power bases and as a legitimising space for concubine-born sons (hajīns). Paper -c examines the politico-cultural strategies employed by Genoese, Pisan, and Venetian fleets to maintain their cohesiveness and sustain ongoing collective action when fighting beyond the borders of their home cities. |