IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 113: Moving Byzantium, I: Professional Mobility within the Byzantine Empire
Monday 3 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency in Byzantium, Universität Wien |
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Organiser: | Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Moderator/Chair: | Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 113-a | How Byzantine Sailors Experienced Maritime Mobility (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Maritime and Naval Studies, Social History |
Paper 113-b | An Assortment of Harbours or a Network of Naval Bases?: The Dispersal of Maritime Forces in the Middle Byzantine Period (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
Paper 113-c | Dynamics of Movement: Villager Agency in the Byzantine Countryside (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Byzantine Studies, Daily Life |
Paper 113-d | A Law unto Themselves: Social Mobility of 6th-Century Bankers in (Legal) Comparative Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - Trade, Law, Social History |
Abstract | The research programme Moving Byzantium highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyses the internal flexibility of Byzantine society. It aims to contribute to a re-evaluation of a society and culture that has traditionally been depicted as stiff, rigid, and encumbered by its own tradition. This is achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, micro-structures, and personal agency. The papers in this session use various types of source evidence to illustrate motivations, experiences, and frameworks of professional mobility, both in terms of space and social status, for maritime, village, and commercial communities within the empire across the Byzantine centuries. |