IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 516: Roman and Sasanian Networks and Entanglements, I: Foreign Relations and Geopolitics across the Mediterranean and Central Asia

Sponsor:	Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University / British Institute of Persian Studies
Organisers:	Domiziana Rossi, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università di Bologna Sean Strong, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Moderator/Chair:	Eve MacDonald, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Paper 516-a	Huns and Persians against Theodosius II (Language: English) Fernando López Sánchez, Departmento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 516-b	The Sasanians at the Collapse of the Ostrogothic Kingdom (Language: English) Illas Ali Torrico, Departamento de Prehistoria, Historia Antigua y Arqueología, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	Foreign relations are an integral aspect for our understanding of late antique geopolitics, but also the relationship of frontiers and boundaries between internal and external groups. The world of Late Antiquity was highly interconnected, and, in this panel, papers have a particular focus on the interconnectivity between empires across the Mediterranean and Central Asia. Discussion will take place on how various empires interacted with one another in this turbulent time and how they impacted or dealt with one another's endurance or defeat.