Conversations with experts in the history of Byzantium and surrounding fields, hosted by Anthony Kaldellis.
Episodes
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
A conversation with Garth Fowden (University of Cambridge) about how the peoples of the Caucasus (Armenians, Georgians, and Albanians) coped with living between two empires, how those empires sought to intervene in their region, and the cultural and religious changes that took place there during the first half of the first millennium. This episode demonstrates the illuminating ways in which global and regional history can be combined.
1 years ago
Let me offer my admiration to both Anthony and Garth for this discussion! For the sake of accuracy I just want to add that Balkan Albania is not really ”sandwitched between Greece and Croatia” (26:25) at all. It borders Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro instead ✌🏻
4 years ago
This was a great one and I agree Armenia and Georgia and Ossetia aren't included enough in Byzantine Studies. The discussion of scripts and the survival of languages was fascinating and I'd love to see that expanded to steppe languages in that region (e.g. Ossetian, which survives, and Hunnic, which we know a translation and script was invented for but did not survive beyond the Khazar period).