April 30th–May 2nd, 2010 | John F. Haldon, Symposiarch
Warfare in the Byzantine World
Friday, April 30th
- 9.30 Coffee etc.
- 10.00 Welcome
- 10.15 Introduction – John Haldon
Session 1: Background
- 10.30 The Big Picture: China, Byzantium and the shadow of the steppe (David Graff)
- 11.15 The Small Picture: Government by Exception and Exemption. Evidence from the Later Byzantine Military (Mark Bartusis)
- 12.00 Discussion
- 12.30 Lunch
Session 2: Legitimation and ideology
- 14.00 Fighting for peace: the legitimation of warfare (Frank Trombley)
- 14.45 A Conflicted Heritage: The Byzantine Religious Establishment of a War Ethic (John McGuckin)
- 15.30 Discussion and break
- 16.15 Byzantium confronts its neighbours: Islam and the Crusaders (John France)
- 17.00 Discussion
- 17.30–19.00 Cocktails
Saturday, May 1st
- 08.30 Coffee
Session 3: Literary and visual representations of war
- 09.00 The visual representation of peace (Lioba Theis)
- 09.45 The Art of War (Robert Nelson)
- 10.30 Discussion and break
- 11.15 The paradoxes of heroism in Byzantium: Military saints and secular warriors (Anthony Kaldellis)
- 12.00 Discussion
- 12.30 Lunch
Session 4: The resources of warfare
- 14.00 Resources, warfare and the Manzikert campaign (John Haldon)
- 14.45 The Medieval Logistics Project: warfare on the grid (Vince Gaffney)
- 15.30 Discussion and break
- 16.15 Landscapes, movement and logistics: multi-agent systems and simulating medieval campaigns (Georgios Theodoropoulos)
- 17.00 Discussion
- 19.00 Speakers' dinner
Sunday, May 2nd
- 09.45 Coffee
Session 5: Legitimation and ideology
- 10.15 War, Social Change and the Politics of Empire: Prisoners of War between Slavery and Freedom (Youval Rotman)
- 11.00 The face of protracted war (Walter Kaegi)
- 11.45 Discussion
- Concluding remarks – John Haldon