BYZANTINE TRADE (4th-12th c.): RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL WORK

    27-29 March 2004 - St. John's College, Oxford

The 38th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, to be held under the
auspices of the Committee for Byzantine Studies. The symposium will examine
questions relating to the extent and nature of Byzantine trade from late
antiquity into the Middle Ages. The Byzantine state was the only political
entity of the Mediterranean to survive antiquity and thus offers a
theoretical standard against which to measure diachronic and regional
changes in trading practices within the area and beyond. To complement
extensive work already carried out on late antique long-distance trade
within the Mediterranean (based on grain supply, amphorae and fine ware
circulation), the symposium will concentrate on other material, notably
that of local and international trade. The main emphasis of the papers will
be on recently uncovered or studied archaeological evidence relating to key
topics. These include local retail organisation within the city, some
regional markets within the empire, the production and/or circulation
patterns of particular goods (metalware, ivory, silk, glass, pottery), and
objects of international trade, both exports and imports. In particular,
new work relating to specific regions of Byzantium's international trade
will be highlighted: Britain, the Levant, the Red Sea, the Black Sea and
China. There will be nine sessions of 30-minute papers, 12-minute
communications, and a final round-table discussion. The symposiarch is
Marlia Mango; the administrator is Lukas Schachner.

   1.    MAPPING TRADE

M. Mango, Trade: international, interregional, regional and local
E. Savage-Smith, Maps and trade
S. Kingsley, Mapping trade by shipwrecks
O. Karagiorgou, Mapping trade by the amphora

   2.    LOCAL TRADE: SHOPS, WORKSHOPS and FACTORIES

Y. Tsafrir, Scythopolis: the excavated evidence, 5th-8th c.
E. Rodziewicz, Ivory, bone and other production at Alexandria, 5th-9th c.
C. Mango, Constantinople
R. Kostova, Preslav, 9th-11th c.

   3.    REGIONAL and INTERREGIONAL MARKETS

A. Vokaer, Syrian Brittleware, 5th-7th c.
N. Günsenin, Ganos wine, 10th-12th c.

   4.    SOME TRADE TRACKING TRAJECTORIES

M. Mango, Metalware, 6th-12th c.
P. Armstrong and I. Dimopoulos, Red, White, and Red Wares, 7th- 12th c.

   5. INTERNATIONAL TRADE: EXPORTS AND IMPORTS

M. Decker, Exported wine, 5th-7th c.
H. Kinoshita, Exported glass excavated in China
A. McCabe, Imported materia medica
J. Hayes, Imported oriental pottery (Sasanian, Islamic, Chinese)

   6. INTERNATIONAL TRADE: WITH BRITAIN, LATE ANTIQUE EAST & WEST

B. Cunliffe, Trade on the Ocean
C. Salter, Tin mining in Britain
C. Bowles, Mediterranean exchange with Britain, 5th-7th c.

   7. INTERNATIONAL TRADE: THE RED SEA and THE EAST

F. Goddio and J. Cole, The Canopic region and port of Alexandria, 5th-9th c.
S.E. Sidebotham, Red Sea ports and their networks
D. Phillipson, Aksum, the entrepot, and highland Ethiopia, 4th- 12th c.
M. Horton, Zanzibar and Shangar, East Africa-Mediterranean trade, 6th-11th
c.

   8. INTERNATIONAL TRADE: THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN EAST and WEST

D. Jacoby, Venice and Amalfi, 10th-12th c. (unable to attend; paper to be
included in symposium publication)
J. Henderson, Glass in the Levant and the Veneto, 11th c.
P. Northover and J. Meyer, Copper: trade and technology transfer in the
central Mediterranean, 10th-12th c.

   9. INTERNATIONAL TRADE:  THE BLACK SEA and THE NORTH

J. Shepard, The north Black Sea: mists and portals
I.L. Shchapova, Local and imported glass excavated in Rus' and the Crimea
N.A. Makarov, Rus': settlement patterns and trade

PLUS: 4 or more sessions of communications (papers of 12 minutes each)

NOTE

A fuller programme with charges listed will be circulated on 1 February
2004.

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Electronic submissions for 12-minute communications on the theme of the
symposium are invited. Deadline: 15 January 2004. Please send title and 250-
word abstract by e-mail to above addresses or by disc with hard copy to:
Dr. Marlia Mango, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1
2PG. Abstracts will be published in the next Bulletin of British Byzantine
Studies.

The Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies offers a limited number
of grants to subsidise the cost of attending this Spring Symposium. They
are available to those registering for the whole conference and are
designed to enable those who would otherwise be unable to afford the cost
of the symposium to attend. Awards will be made of a minimum of £50, but
are on a sliding scale for those with higher transport costs. Priority will
be given to students at UK universities and to the unwaged in the UK.
Byzantinists based outside the UK who wish to attend the symposium are
encouraged to apply to their own national committee of the AIEB for support
if needed.

Those wishing to apply for a grant should download the form from the SPBS
website (www.byzantium.ac.uk) and return it to: Dr. Antony Eastmond,
Department of Art History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, by 14
February 2004. Forms are also available by sending an SAE to Antony
Eastmond. Forms which are incomplete, or which arrive after the deadline
will be discarded.

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