“Sailing to Byzantium: Insular and Coastal Urban Spaces in the Medieval Mediterranean” <\/p>\n
Friday 9 November 2018
\nFEASS- C Block Amphi <\/p>\n
The History Department is pleased to announce a one-day workshop entitled “Sailing to Byzantium”:
\nInsular and Coastal Urban Spaces in the Medieval Mediterranean on Friday 9 November.
\nThe workshop will be in English. <\/p>\n
Welcome Speeches- h. 10.00
\nH.E. LUIGI MATTIOLO, Ambassador of Italy to Turkey <\/p>\n
DAVID THORNTON, Chair, Department of History <\/p>\n
Speakers- h. 10.30-15.30
\nSALVATORE COSENTINO (University of Bologna) Insularity, economy and social countryside in the early Byzantine period <\/p>\n
MATTHEW HARPSTER (Ko\u00e7 University) Rebuilding the Maritime Landscape of Medieval Amalfi <\/p>\n
ENRICO ZANINI (University of Siena) Gortyn of Crete: one archaeological site and four (basic) ideas about the Byzantine insular city <\/p>\n
LUCA ZAVAGNO (Bilkent University) Cities of Islands”: brief notes on Byzantine insular urbanism in the early Middle Ages <\/p>\n
SCOTT KENNEDY (Bilkent University) In search of the Ideal State: Utopia and the Sea in Bessarion’s Encomium of Trabzon <\/p>\n
MACIT TEK\u0130NALP (Hacettepe University) Late Antique Arykanda and the Arif Kale in Lycia <\/p>\n
NATHAN LEIDHOLM (Bilkent University) A Turkish Basileus in Smyrna: Tzachas\/ \u00c7aka Bey between Byzantium and the Seljuqs, ca.1080-1100 <\/p>\n
You are all cordially invited. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Sailing to Byzantium: Insular and Coastal Urban Spaces in the Medieval Mediterranean” Friday 9 November 2018 FEASS- C Block Amphi The History Department is pleased to announce a one-day workshop entitled “Sailing to Byzantium”: Insular and Coastal Urban Spaces in the Medieval Mediterranean on Friday 9 November. The workshop will [\u2026] <\/p>\n