Author: Ekaterina Nechaeva

EX-PATRIA at the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity -XV: ‘Romans in New Worlds: Considering “Global Late Antiquity”’.

Ekaterina Nechaeva attended the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity -XV conference held in September 2023 at the University of Santa Barbara.

With it focus on Global Late Antiquity the conference was an ideal occasion to share the EX-PATRIA work, discuss, and learn a lot from colleagues.

Post-Doctoral Position in Late Antiquity (1-2 years, full time, starting from October 2023)

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to work within the theme of the EX-PATRIA project at the Research Center UMR 8164-HALMA. Their main task will be to contribute to the prosopographical database of Late Antique migrants who were crossing the border between the Roman and the Sasanian empires. The more precise thematic and geographical foci of this prosopographical work, as well as its principal source base, will depend on the candidate’s profile and specialisation.

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SESSION: THE EDGE OF TRAITORS

24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice-Padua, 25/08/2022

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)

edge of traitors
edge of traitors

A talk by Alexander Sarantis: “The Socio-Economic Impact of Raiding on the Eastern and Balkan Borderlands of the Eastern Roman Empire, 502-602”

06/04/2021

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