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The Eastern Mediterranean in the Thirteenth century:
identities and allegiances

Building a prosopographical methodology

Convenors: Dame Averil Cameron, DBE, FBA, Professor Charlotte Roueché, King’s College London,
and Professor Judith Herrin, King’s College London

The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
Friday 30 March 2007-Saturday 31 March 2007
£30 (£20 concessions, postgraduate students may attend free of charge)

Programme

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Friday 30 March 2007

1.00 Lunch and registration
Session 1: The Centres
Chair: Michael Jeffreys (Oxford)
2.00 Marriage Strategies 1204-1261 Michael Angold (Edinburgh)
Nicaea Vincent Puech (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
Epiros Günter Prinzing (Mainz)
3.45 Tea and coffee
4.15 Trebizond Rustam Shukurov (Moscow)
Serbia's View of the Byzantine World (1204-1261) Ljubomir Maksimovic (Belgrade)
Bulgaria Dimiter Angelov (Birmingham)

Discussion

6.00 Reception

Saturday 31 March 2007

9.00 Tea and coffee available
Session 2: The Peripheries
Chair: Charlotte Roueché (King's College London)
9.30 The Venetian possessions Sally McKee (University of California, Davis)
The role of Genoa and Pisa Catherine Otten (Strasbourg)
10.30 Tea and coffee
11.00 The Papacy Christoph Egger (Vienna)
Identities in Transition: Individualised Experience of Regime Change in Thirteenth-Century Greece Teresa Shawcross (Princeton)

Discussion

1.00 Lunch
Session 3: Other Dimensions
Chair: Ralph-Johannes Lilie (Berlin)
2.00 The Islamic world Jo van Steenbergen (University of Ghent)
Armenia and the Nicene Empire Robert Thomson (Oxford)
Cyprus and the Crusader States Tassos Papacostas (King's College London)
4.00 Tea and coffee
4.30 Discussion

Concluding Remarks
Cécile Morrisson (CNRS, Paris)
Catherine Holmes (Oxford)
Judith Herrin (King’s College London