Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1213
Title	Byzantine Borders, III: Dissolving Frontiers
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Organiser	Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair	Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford / Department of History, University of Birmingham
Paper 1213-a	State-Sanctioned Solutions or Local Initiatives?: Coin Supply and the Production of Imitation Coinage on the Edge of Empire (Language: English) Marcus Spencer-Brown, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Numismatics; Social History
Paper 1213-b	The Late Antique Desert: Frontier of Transformation or Interspace of Permanence? (Language: English) Anna C. Kelley, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Daily Life; Economics - Rural; Social History
Paper 1213-c	Conjugating the Liminal: Byzantine Borders and the 18th Brumaire (Language: English) Leslie Brubaker, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Social History
Abstract	In the third of four sessions on Byzantine borders, speakers address the interface between local and state initiatives in frontier regions, re-evaluate the desert-as-frontier trope, and look at the uses of borders in the discourses of Byzantine Studies.