The EX-PATRIA Project sponsored two highly successful sessions at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice, Padua. Conveners: Ekaterina Nechaeva & Leif Inge Ree Petersen
See the detailed programme below
Programme
PART I: Treason and Disloyalty in Civil and Military Affairs, 4th–6th centuries
Mariana Bodnaruk, Omnia Mutescant Tempora: Memory Sanctions Against Military
Office-Holders in the Late Roman Empire (AD 354–454)
Jeroen Wijnendaele, Assassination in Military Conflict During the Late Roman Empire
(c. 354–527)
*Roland Steinacher, King Odovacar’s Whirlpool of Peoples: A Short Time Rex Italiae
Sean Strong, Bahram Chobin’s Revolt: A Sasanian Asset and Ally of East Rome in the Late
6th Century?
Alexey Muravyev, Those Perfidious Barbarians: Arabs and Goths in the 5th–6th Century
Wars on the Eastern Frontier
Ekaterina Nechaeva, Who Is to Blame? Episodes of Plots and Treason in Roman-Persian
Military Conflicts in the 6th Century
Łukasz Różycki, Traitors and Deserters as Described in Early Byzantine Military Treatises
PART II: Dissent and Collaboration in Byzantium and the World(s) beyond, 4–7th centuries
Philip Rance, Treason and Collaboration in Roman-Gothic Conflict in the 370s: Socio-
Economic and Military Contexts (via zoom)
Maijastina Kahlos, Rumors of Disloyalty and Treason in Political and Ecclesiastical
Conflicts (300–400) (via zoom)
Conor Whately, Roman Soldiers, Treason, and Collaboration during Justinian’s Reconquest
of the West
Laury Sarti, ΤΟΝ ΦΡΑΝΚΟΝ ΦΙΛΟΝ ΕΧΙC, ΓΙΤΟΝΑ ΟΥΚ ΕΧΙC? Using the Franks
to Reclaim Lombard Italy for the Empire (via zoom)
Alexander Sarantis, Inter-Communal Relations in a Byzantine Borderland: Ethnic and
Political Complexity in the Miracles of St. Demetrius, Book II
Leif Inge Ree Petersen, From Political and Religious Dissent to Treason and Collaboration:
Byzantine-Arab Warfare in the Age of Constans and Muʿāwiya (640s–660s)