IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 213: Moving Byzantium, II: Mobility Beyond the Byzantine Borders - Clerics, Pilgrims, and Nobility
Monday 3 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Nikolaos Zagklas, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 213-a | 'Pilgrim Functionaries' and 'Imagined Communities' in Middle Byzantium and Song China (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 213-b | Networks beyond Byzantium: Echoes of the Monothelete Controversy in the Post-Roman West (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 213-c | Between Armenia, Byzantium, and Cilicia: Migrations and Changes in Identity among the Armenian High Nobility in the Light of New Data, 9th-12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Demography |
| 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. Papers in this session focus on the mobility of literati, clerics, or noble elites to or from Byzantine territories, either in an official capacity or on their own initiative. These movements are placed in wider frameworks of political or religious change as well as of comparison with other medieval polities such as Song China. |