IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1215: The Entangled Caucasus, III: An Entangled Heart - The Central Caucasus in the High Middle Ages
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Caucasus Network |
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| Organisers: | James Baillie, Independent Scholar, Birmingham Nicholas Evans, Clare College, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Nicholas Matheou, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1215-a | The Anchors of the Web: Brokerage, Identity, and Power in the Bagrationid Court (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1215-b | Entangled Caucasus: Kirakos Ganjakec'i (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1215-c | The Emergence of Standardised Textual and Visual Representations of the Miracle of St George (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | In the Central Middle Ages, connections of many kinds ran through the heart of the Caucasus. Physical routes carried goods, people - and, just as importantly, information, which could in turn forge familial connections, ecclesiastical links, and political alliances. Their power and their stories, in turn, could shape the political climates and control that governed the land. This panel examines the dense connectivity of the central Caucasus with papers looking at real and imagined road networks, on brokerage and networking at the Bagrationid court, and on Georgian-Armenian relations throughout the period. |