The Tenacity of the Network. Reorientations of imperial mobility and trans-regional connectivity in “Dark Age”-Byzantium (7th to 9th centuries CE)

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna

Invité par Ludivine Voisin École française d’Athènes

This seminar, to be held in English, will combine theoretical considerations and new findings on various aspects of mobility (of humans, commodities and pathogens) in “Dark Age”-Byzantium.

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller is deputy head of the Department for Byzantine Research at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and teaches Byzantine Studies and Global History at the University of Vienna. His research focuses on Byzantium in its regional and transregional entanglements in the medieval world, comparative history of societies of the past, environmental and climate history as well as historical complexity and network research. He recently co-edited the Companion to the Environmental History of Byzantium with Adam Izdebski (Brill, 2024).