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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story?

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason for the different scales of actors that appear in these texts, whether large blurry masses of nameless people, smaller groups with a distinct profile, or finely drawn individuals.

Source: Early Medieval Europe

DOI: 10.1111/emed.12641

Author: Claudia Rapp

Institution: University of Vienna

Language: English

Topic: Byzantine Studies and History

Subfield: Classics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,630

Funder: Austrian Science Fund