SESSION: Educational Networks of the Late Antique Borderland: Armenia between Rome and Iran through Political and Military Crises

Leeds International Medieval Congress, 3/07/2024

This EX-PATRIA session organised by Anna Usacheva explored the educational mobility of scholars, students, and captives across Roman and Sasanian Armenia.

Educational Networks of the Late Antique Borderland: Armenia between Rome and Iran through Political and Military Crises

In this EX-PATRIA session, we examined how individuals—scholars, students, and captives—moved for the purpose of education across Roman and Sasanian Armenia. We focused on how such movements shaped identity, careers, and responses to political crisis. Particular attention was given to the roles of Armenian intellectuals and the strategic deployment of displacement.