IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1318: Marginal Communities in Globalised Mediterranean Networks, IV: Labouring from the Margins

Organiser:	Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid
Paper 1318-a	From the Plough to the Spatula (and back Again): The Agency of Rural Artisans (Language: English) Flavia Vanni, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Social History
Paper 1318-b	From Desert to City: Rural Labour, Monastic Production, and Networks of Consumption in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham Index terms: Economics - Rural, Monasticism, Social History
Abstract	As a bustling epicentre of connectivity, the Eastern Mediterranean of the medieval world was a hub in the development of global communication networks. The papers in these linked sessions examine networks from the perspective of the people on the peripheries and how their local contexts situated them in wider systems. They consider how marginalised communities intersected and interacted with, shaped, and ultimately built networks. The speakers in the fourth session re-contextualised the role of different forms of marginalised labour in network building and expansion.