The “8th century“ has been historically and archaeologically considered a sort of watershed between Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The definition of the transformations in this period is a crucial issue, especially as regards continuity and change of the economic structures in the Late Antique Mediterranean world.
This international interdisciplinary conference shall bring together scholars from several disciplines, including Late Antique, Islamic, Byzantine and Medieval History, Archaeology, Archaeometry, Numismatics, Philology, and Papyrology, to assess the 8th century qua threshold from diff erent perspectives, in order to re-evaluate the problematic of this transition in terms of continuity/disruption by combining archaeological data and textual – literary as well as documentary – sources.
Organizers:
Stefan Esders: esdersst@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Silvia Polla: silvia.polla@fu-berlin.de
Tonio Sebastian Richter: sebastian.richter@fu-berlin.de