Moving People, Shifting Frontiers: Re-contextualising the Thirteenth Century in the Wider Mediterranean
Sponsoring Organization(s)
International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Organizer Name
Aikaterini Ragkou; Maria Alessia Rossi
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. zu Köln; Index of Medieval Art, Princeton Univ.
Presider Name
Maria Alessia Rossi
Paper Title 1
Introductory Note: Why Reconsider the Wider Mediterranean in the Thirteenth Century?
Presenter 1 Name
Maria Alessia Rossi
Paper Title 2
Mary Magdalene: Collateral Currents in Empire and Image Making in the Thirteenth Century
Presenter 2 Name
Cecily Hennessy
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Christie's Education, London
Paper Title 3
Production and Distribution Trends of Fine Ware Ceramics in the Thirteenth-Century Eastern Mediterranean
Presenter 3 Name
Aikaterini Ragkou
Paper Title 4
Mobility by Numbers: Byzantine Prosopography, Networks and Space
Presenter 4 Name
Ekaterini Mitsiou
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. Wien
Start Date
11-5-2018 3:30 PM
Session Location
Sangren 1750
Description
Every day we witness people moving, with them objects and skills, knowledge and experience; either forcibly or willingly; for work or for pleasure. The communities living along the shores of the Mediterranean and the hinterlands of the Balkans during the thirteenth century share many of the characteristics of our contemporary world: military campaigns and religious wars; the intensification of pilgrimage and the relocation of refugees; the shifting of frontiers and the transformation of socio-political orders.
Combining art history, history and archaeology, this session aims to address the complex shifts in power played out in Constantinople and the Holy Land, viewed through the lens of one of the West’s most revered female saint, Mary Magdalene; the dynamics in commercial relationships and trade patterns between the Peloponnese and the pottery production centers of the restored Byzantine Empire and Italian peninsula; the benefits of a systematic survey of prosopographic data for the years immediately after 1204, allowing for an analysis of the networks lost, re-created and newly established by historically attested persons.
Aikaterini Ragkou; Maria Alessia Rossi
Moving People, Shifting Frontiers: Re-contextualising the Thirteenth Century in the Wider Mediterranean
Sangren 1750
Every day we witness people moving, with them objects and skills, knowledge and experience; either forcibly or willingly; for work or for pleasure. The communities living along the shores of the Mediterranean and the hinterlands of the Balkans during the thirteenth century share many of the characteristics of our contemporary world: military campaigns and religious wars; the intensification of pilgrimage and the relocation of refugees; the shifting of frontiers and the transformation of socio-political orders.
Combining art history, history and archaeology, this session aims to address the complex shifts in power played out in Constantinople and the Holy Land, viewed through the lens of one of the West’s most revered female saint, Mary Magdalene; the dynamics in commercial relationships and trade patterns between the Peloponnese and the pottery production centers of the restored Byzantine Empire and Italian peninsula; the benefits of a systematic survey of prosopographic data for the years immediately after 1204, allowing for an analysis of the networks lost, re-created and newly established by historically attested persons.
Aikaterini Ragkou; Maria Alessia Rossi