IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1115: The Entangled Caucasus, II: Distant Entanglements - Between and beyond Caucasus Regions
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Caucasus Network |
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Organisers: | James Baillie, Independent Scholar, Birmingham Nicholas Evans, Clare College, University of Cambridge |
Moderator/Chair: | Tara L. Andrews, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität Bern |
Paper 1115-a | The Colonial Archive at the End of the World: The Mediterranean Slave Trade during the Twilight of the Genoese Colonies in the Black Sea (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Economics - Trade, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Paper 1115-b | Ani Entangled: Caucasian Urbanisation in the Afro-Eurasian Commercial Revolution, 900-1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Social History |
Paper 1115-c | Contacts between Georgia and the North Caucasus in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Historiography - Medieval |
Abstract | Mobility of people and objects within and beyond the Caucasus intensified in the period 900-1475. Not only did this play a large part in determining the course of the region's economic development, but it also became critical to the determination of value in a political and religious sense. The four papers from this panel offer various perspectives on the value of interconnection, its facilitation and limitation in high and late medieval Caucasia. Galstyan's paper explores the Trans-Eurasian resonances of architecture with specific reference to 13th-century mausolea from Ahlat. Matheou's paper retains the Trans-Eurasian focus, but on a macro scale, comparing processes of urbanisation in Caucasia and elsewhere in the Eurasian world. Mirianashvili's paper explores the importance of materiality in the spread of religious ideas, specifically the spread of Christianity in the North Caucasus. Finally, Latham-Sprinkle's paper uses Genoese colonial archives relating to the North Caucasus to explore the question of how we judge relative value and importance when writing global histories of interconnection. |