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ny single place central to a hypothesis however big it was 1 the other papers tried to make such connections more explicit nonetheless dr izdebski comparing coin circulation and pollen patterns across central greece the only place where adequate survey evidence exists he said and determining two very similar looking phases of expansion in the fourth to sixth centuries and the first half of the second millennium but the coins and the pollen don t agree about when the latter was and neither make a great deal of sense next to the supposed climate profile dr preiser kapeller meanwhile ran us very summarily through the history of armenia from the seventh to tenth centuries and concluded that while the fragile local ecology would impact the two surviving noble houses grip on power in the area after the year 1000 up till that point military conquest by persians and arabs was a far better explanation of how the area wound up with only two such houses from fourteen than was anything environmental the point of ms veikou s paper lastly was mainly to put the url of her project before us a project that as far that url now shows had by then already wound up and has produced no further publications since it did so no points from me for that i m afraid the tenth century church of akdamar island in the salt lake van in armenia from which lake johannes s climate evidence was largely coming and fair enough i found the three actual papers in this session a paradoxical combination and this came out in discussion all three speakers were attracted by the idea that large scale survey that factored in changes in the ecological sphere alongside more material evidence of human usage could tell us something but when approached on what had to admit either that the data was not yet collected as in cappadocia where much is visible but very little dated or interpreted or that when it had been it had made sense only on a regional basis and not compared well with anywhere else or the global pattern as at lake van or miletus in greece the effect was to leave the audience and indeed one at least of the speakers much more sceptical that this was a useful approach than they had been when we all entered the room as if ellenblum s book like the first velvet underground album has made every one of its readers determined to have a go too and then discover that trying to be less erratic and offhand than lou reed somehow doesn t produce better rock and roll i suppose the real point for us to work on here is the junction between macro scale and micro scale pictures if at a local level one can entirely escape what is apparently the global trend one has to ask what difference the global trend really made to people a problem that we have of course been seeing with generating concern about the current global ecological situation since well as long as i can remember really presumably there was then food as my conference program is pretty much marked up with receptions for the evening so there wouldn t have been time later between the food and the wine however came one final academic event for the day 401 early medieval europe lecture the modern state of the abbey church of corbie from wikimedia commons the annual early medieval europe lecture was this year given by none other than professor mayke de jong speaking with the title carolingian cultures of dialogue and debate so as you might expect i went mayke was speaking about a difficult text on which she has been working for a long time the epitaphium arsenii of paschasius radbertus this is an anonymised critique of the policies of the carolingian emperor louis the pious written in the form of a dialoguic account of the life of one of his relatives abbot wala of corbie as he ended his earthly career 2 just explaining what it is isn t simple therefore but mayke is one of three people who have recently written about it all coming into the field as she explained with different historiographical demons to slay 3 the particular one she tackled here was the idea that the early middle ages was an era in which there was no public sphere and the ancient tradition of speaking truth to power died off in which rulers were influenced not by the voices of the crowd but a closed circle of advisors texts like the epitaphium show that this is not true at least if mayke s right that its much more polemical second book was intended for an audience beyond the monastery at corbie where it was written the whole text rests on the idea that it was not just all right but morally necessary to try to correct the emperor about his mistakes after all and that this could be done by this kind of literary device mayke had other examples of people rewriting events in literary fashion to put their view across but it now strikes me after teaching it for a term again that another obvious one of these texts is einhard s vita karoli because whatever its date and purpose was it s certainly using praise of charlemagne in the reign of his successor to do something the whole lecture was full of wry wit and sharp observations about the way that people s intellectual traditions have constructed their opinions and she was quite right that if we as scholars of the early middle ages want to get our field away from the old idea of the dark ages we need better to understand why people find it useful to put it there 4 but her final point that the carolingian religious sphere was a public one that included laymen shows how far our categories are crumbling as we better understand what authors like paschasius were doing with their texts and so that wound up the first day of the imc of 2015 and i will alternate the reports on the remaining three with shorter and more discursive content but i will by my blogger s pledge get it done and then continue onwards 1 ellenblum s work referred to here is r ellenblum the collapse of the eastern mediterranean climate change and the decline of the east 950 1072 cambridge 2012 to which at some point i am also going to have to pay attention i suppose on issues of scale it always seems worth my citing julio escalona the early middle ages a scale based approach in idem andrew reynolds edd scale and scale change in the early middle ages exploring landscape local society and the world beyond the medieval countryside 6 turnhout 2011 pp 9 29 2 it is available in a deprecated but still unique translation for the english speaker as allen cabaniss trans charlemagne s cousins contemporary lives of adalard and wala syracuse ny 1967 3 referring to m de jong the penitential state authority and atonement in the age of louis the pious 814 840 cambridge 2010 but also to courtney m booker past convictions the penance of louis the pious and the decline of the carolingians philadelphia pa 2009 and some unnamed work by steffen patzold that i don t know but which might be or be referred to in his consensus concordia unitas überlegungen zu einem politisch religiösen ideal der karolingerzeit in nikolaus staubach ed exemplaris imago ideale in mittelalter und früher neuzeit tradition reform innovation 15 frankfurt 2012 pp 31 56 non vidi 4 mayke cited among other things ian wood the modern origins of the early middle ages oxford 2013 and i might add with my original cautions as linked kathleen davis periodization and sovereignty how ideas of feudalism and secularization govern the politics of time philadelphia pa 2006 53 799461 1 600789 5 comments posted in archaeology byzantium carolingians frontiers institutions islamic crescent tagged adam izdebski andrew marsham anna leone armenia berbers climate change conferences corisande fenwick denis genequand einhard greece johannes preiser kapeller leeds libya louis the pious mark whittow mayke de jong medieval warm period paschasius radbertus ronnie ellenblum settlement archaeology syria tunisia umayyads gallery medieval remains in modern leeds posted on 13 august 2016 this gallery contains 4 photos today just a very short photo post the backlog is now in some sense advanced to only thirteen months behind as i approach the international medieval congress of the year before the one just gone but the imc 2015 was continue reading 4 comments gallery cesma field trip to shrewsbury posted on 11 august 2016 this gallery contains 25 photos i should apologise for the blip in posts subscribers must just have experienced i put one post together in the depths of sleep deprivation before i realised that this one should have come first if it s any comfort this one continue reading 2 comments another gathering of byzantinists in birmingham posted on 8 august 2016 leave a comment my reporting backlog now reaches 30th may 2015 which was a very full day in birmingham occasioned by the 16th annual postgraduate symposium of the centre of byzantine ottoman and modern greek studies with the title fragmentation the eastern mediterranean in conflict and cohesion i have dithered before about whether i report on what is essentially a postgraduate event but it s a postgraduate event with a keynote by an established scholar and people come to it from all over the world so it s really as high level as such things get and the people participating in it are all working at their highest level so i shall blog it but as the backlog is so long and time is so short i shall try to be brief and hope it still does the participants due credit i should stress though that looking through my notes for this the number of times i have said to myself oh i met so and so then or even oh i ran that i have no memory of this at all has been much higher than it really should be for anyone of even my advanced age i was clearly just getting by at this point in my life on not enough sleep and while things have come back to me as i write this we are basically reliant on my notes for what i m reporting which may be wrong or inadequate so if you were there i invite corrections the caravanserai of kesik köprü in the erstwhile seljuk sultanate of konya we began with the keynote address which was by professor scott redford and entitled 84 mongols walk into a caravanserai this promising start was occasioned by a document signed indeed by eighty four mongols mostly local officials of various grades at the caravanserai of yüksekligi to witness the act of one nur ad din ibn tayā as he established a church the document is dated to the year of the monkey and has a gloss in mongol with this example of how cultures were mixing in the thirteenth century in what is now western turkey professor redford then picked out a number of other ways in which we can if we choose find links between greek turkish and yes even mongol cultures of patronage and power in this area for example nur ad din had also built a caravanserai at kesik köprü which is still up as you can see above on the route between constantinople and the local sultanate of konya and stands near a bridge which went up at about the same time and only fell down in 1990 but contained an inscription set up by the sultan of konya when he was actually in rebellion against his masters in baghdad and so closer to the greeks than the turks in some ways the bridge at kesik köprü as it has been restored i think i was personally less convinced by some of the art historical links which professor redford drew but the widespread use of a symbol called the elibelinde seen below in constantinople and indeed more once it became istanbul various locations in the seljuk sultanates and indeed yet another local caravanserai did speak loudly of a cultural identity that crossed and blurred political boundaries that were in any case more fluid below the top state level than we sometimes remember when doing history in outline so this was good and full of much better illustrations than i have been able to use here a modern piece of weaving featuring a central row of four elibelinde symbols after this we were down into the postgraduate sessions i had volunteered to chair one of these so my choice about what to go to was made for me but in fact this put me into my first ever contact with two future colleagues so unbeknownst to me it worked well also the papers were interesting they were these james hill missing the opportune moment john v palaiologos and the spectre of union nafsika vassilopolou royal marriages of the palaeologi 1258 1453 appraising a political practice maroula perisanidi should we abstain marital equality in byzantine canon law all these papers were about one or other sort of union really james was looking at the agreement of emperor john v to re reunify the eastern and western christian churches an agreement that in the end collapsed not just because of its deep unpopularity in the eastern empire where it doesn t even seem to have been made public as a plan but also and perhaps mainly because the popes simply couldn t deliver the troops that were john s asking price despite their best diplomatic efforts with genoa and venice ms vassilopolou s paper made it seem odder that the eastern emperors had such trouble enjoining union of the churches on their people because when it came to marrying off princesses there was pretty much no theological objection which they could not overrule consanguinity juvenility differing religions or sects of christianity what is less clear is what most of the eighty eight political marriages the palaeologan emperors arranged actually got them alliance sometimes especially with the mongols who seem to have received the most consistently high status brides territory sometimes but it usually cost a lot in terms of land money and human capital as well and ms vassilopolou thought that the main motivation was to remain on the international stage as a player not an extra which as we know in the uk is a strategy that can make you do some very stupid things lastly maroula went looking for gender equality in byzantine canon law hoping to find it at the most fundamental point who got to choose when to abstain from sex the trouble here is that most of the law deals with churchmen who by reason of needing to perform holy office weekly and being supposed to abstain before and after were much more often confronted by this question so that kind of comes pre gendered it was quite surprising to me how much thought the byzantine canonists had put into this question but i suppose it did keep coming up if you ll forgive the phrase the paper is now out in print anyway so you can read it yourself if you like 1 tailpiece of a chrysobull of emperor alexios iii megas komnenos of trebizond to the dionysiou monastery on mount athos showing him and his wife theodora niece of emperor john vi kantakouzenos of constantinople image public domain via wikimedia commons that took us to lunch and then after that the programme tells me i was dashing back to the barber institute to give a coin handling session coins of byzantium and its neighbours in the barber institute of fine arts i have literally 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