IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1620: Entangled Semantics of Power between East and West, II: New Wine in Old Wineskins - Greek Lexical Loans and Semantic Reshaping in the Fiscal and Institutional Language of Medieval Italy
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Alberto Cotza, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa Paolo Tomei, Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del sapere, Università di Pisa |
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| Moderator/Chair: | François Bougard, Ecole Française, Roma |
| Paper 1620-a | A Word in Two Worlds: Baiulus / βαΐουλος, 781-944 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1620-b | From the Emperor to the Saint: New Functions and Roles of the Comes corti in Post-Byzantine Bari, 11th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1620-c | Δεκατεία: A Case-Study on Greek Fiscal Lexicon in 12th-Century Pisa (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Maritime and Naval Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The focus of the three papers is to study the communication between political cultures in the early and high medieval Mediterranean, bringing together the Byzantine East with the post-Roman West in a connectivity-oriented perspective. What moves the reflections together is the analysis of the lexicon and semantics of power, as a tool capable of shedding light on political and cultural structures and, along the flow of time, on their dynamics of interaction and transformation. Common ground of investigation is the Italian peninsula: a sort of bridge-region, also from a geographical point of view, between the two worlds. |