Upcoming Conference: Linking the Mediterranean: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactions in Times of Fragmentation (300 -800 CE) (Vienna, December 11th-13th) Venue: Abteilung für Byzanzforschung/Division of Byzantine Research, Wohllebengasse 12-14/3, 1040 Wien 11.-13. December 2014 Keynote: Prof. Bryan Ward-Perkins, Oxford Organisator: Dr. David Natal Villazala, IMAFO/ABF, ÖAW ([email protected]) Programme online: https://academia.edu/9238221/Linking_the_Mediterranean_Regional_and_Trans-Regional_Interactions_in_Times_of_Fragmentation_300_-800_CE_ The political fragmentation of the Roman Empire also meant a reduction in the scope of economic, social and cultural relationships that had developed across different hierarchical levels and between distant places on Roman soil. New social and cultural relationships developed in the polities that followed the Roman Empire. Nonetheless, the survival of regional and interregional interactions assured certain homogeneity in political, cultural and social forms across post-Roman Europe. This phenomenon has been the topic of exciting academic debate in the last decade and different interpretations and methodological approaches have been proposed. In this workshop, we intend to focus discussion especially on the issue of interactions beyond the local level between 300 and 800 CE in order to assess 1) to what extent these interactions were affected by the end of the Roman Empire as a political entity, and 2) how these connections contributed to lasting patterns that shaped the post-Roman world in social, cultural and political terms. We are interested in both Mediterranean-wide and smaller regional networks and have invited papers that deal with all the regions of the (former) Roman Empire (including North Africa, Egypt, Syria, etc.), its periphery (Ireland, Armenia, etc.) and beyond to the Far East. The theme of this workshop has grown out of research undertaken by David Natal through the ENFLAWE project (‘Episcopal Networks and Fragmentation in Late Antique Western Europe’). Funded by the EU-Marie Curie Actions and hosted at the Division for Byzantine Research (Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences-OEAW) under the supervision of Prof. Claudia Rapp (w. M.; Univ. of Vienna), in cooperation with Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (ÖAW), this project analyses episcopal interactions in the late fourth and fifth century from a social network approach (academia.edu/3988811/David_Natal_EPISCOPAL_NETWORKS_AND_FRAGMENTATION_IN_LATE_ANTIQUE_WESTERN_EUROPE_ENFLAWE_).
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