Δεύτερο Διεθνές Συνέδριο με θέμα: “Η Στρατιωτική Ιστορία της Μεσογείου”
Θεσσαλονίκη, 16-18 Σεπτεμβρίου 2021
Η Μεσόγειος έχει προσελκύσει τη φαντασία των σύγχρονων ιστορικών ως το επίκεντρο των μεγάλων πολιτικών οντοτήτων, όπως οι Αιγύπτιοι, Έλληνες, Ρωμαίοι, Άραβες, Οθωμανοί, Ενετοί, Ισπανοί και ούτω καθεξής. Ωστόσο, φαίνεται ότι η Θάλασσα ήταν πάντα στο περιθώριο της ιστορικής έρευνας μεταξύ των μονογραφιών σχετικά με τις ιστορίες της Ευρώπης, της Μέσης Ανατολής (η ίδια πολύ ξεπερασμένη έννοια) και της Βόρειας Αφρικής. Αυτό συνέβη μέχρι τη δημοσίευση του φημισμένου 2τομου έργου του F. Braudel το 1949 που διαμόρφωσε βαθιά τον τρόπο κατανόησης του τρόπου με τον οποίο οι κοινωνίες που ζούσαν γύρω από τη Μεσόγειο αλληλοεπιδρούσαν σε μια ενιαία περίοδο της ιστορίας, προσφέροντας αυτό που ένας άλλος μεγάλος ιστορικός έχει επινοήσει ως “οριζόντια ιστορία της Μεσογείου “.
Το συνέδριο αυτό στοχεύει να προσφέρει μια μάλλον κάθετη ιστορία του πολέμου στη Μεσόγειο από τον Μεσαίωνα έως την πρώιμη Νεότερη περίοδο (περίπου 1700 μ.Χ.), δίδοντας έμφαση στο μεταβαλλόμενο πρόσωπο πολλών πλευρών και πλαισίων του πολέμου με την πάροδο του χρόνου.
Αυτή η διεθνής συνεργασία μεταξύ μελετητών από την Κωνσταντινούπολη και τη Θεσσαλονίκη στοχεύει να φέρει την πρωτεύουσα της Μακεδονίας στο επίκεντρο της ακαδημαϊκής προσοχής διοργανώνοντας το Δεύτερο Διεθνές Συνέδριο για τη Στρατιωτική Ιστορία της Μεσογείου Θάλασσας, το οποίο πρόκειται να φιλοξενηθεί στη Θεσσαλονίκη μεταξύ 16-18 Ιουνίου του τρέχοντος έτους. Χαιρετίζουμε εργασίες (papers) που διερευνούν κάθε θέμα σχετικό με τη μελέτη και τη διδασκαλία της στρατιωτικής ιστορίας της Μεσογείου από την ύστερη αρχαιότητα και την πτώση της Ρώμης μέχρι τον δέκατο έβδομο αιώνα. Ενθαρρύνουμε ιδιαίτερα τις εργασίες (papers) που επικεντρώνονται στο θέμα του συνεδρίου «μοντέλα στρατιωτικής ηγεσίας».
- Τα σημεία συζήτησης περιλαμβάνουν:
- τα κοινωνικά στρώματα των στρατιωτικών ηγετών / διοικητών
- ο ρόλος των στρατιωτικών ιδεωδών και πρακτικών σε διαφορετικούς «στρατιωτικούς πολιτισμούς» στη διαμόρφωση ενός στρατιωτικού ηγέτη
- Τι θα μπορούσε να κάνει ή να σπάσει έναν στρατιωτικό ηγέτη
- την αποτελεσματικότητα των ηγετών / διοικητών στο πεδίο της μάχης
- η «ιδανική» ηγεσία και ο «ηρωικός ατομικισμός»
FINAL PROGRAM
Organising committee:
Georgios Theotokis (Ibn Haldun University)
Angeliki Delikari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Hara Papadopoulou (Byzantine Thessaloniki)
Halil Berktay (Ibn Haldun University)
Andreas Gkoutzioukostas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Dimitrios Sidiropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Venue: War Museum of Thessaloniki
Thursday, 16 September
17:00 – : Registration
17:00-17:30: Welcoming remarks
17:30-18:30: Guided tour of the War Museum
18:30-19:00: Konstantinos Gkioulekas (Head of Committee of National Defence of the Hellenic Parliament) – 200 years since the Greek Revolution
19:00: First Keynote Lecture – Haralambos Papasotiriou (Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, Panteion University) – Byzantine Defence Strategy: an overview
20:00: Wine Reception (Sponsored by Ibn-Haldun University)
Friday, 17 September
09:00: Second Keynote Lecture – Matthew Bennett (Visiting Research Fellow, University of Winchester; formerly Senior Lecturer, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst)
Is it possible to teach military leadership? The ‘medieval’ sources answer
10:00 – 11:20
Panel 1A: Elements in the Byzantine army
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Nikolaos S. Kanellopoulos
- Filip Schneider (University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava) – Armenian presence in the army of Nikephoros Phokas
- Christos G. Makrypoulias (Independent) – Dexiolaboi, matzoukatoi, and malartioi in the Byzantine army: specialist troops or poorly armed irregulars?
- Konstantinos Takirtakoglou (University of Ioannina) – The Armeno-Byzantine tasinarioi and the Arab masāliḥ: The same tactical unit?
Panel 1B: War and the divine
Room: Multiple use room
Moderator: Efstratia Sygkellou
- Margarita Papageorgiou (Democritus University of Thrace) – The role of the divine element in the outcome of military operations
- Antonios Athanasopoulos (University of Ioannina) – Divine protection of Constantinople: the role of the Theotokos in the case of the Ottoman sieges of the City
11:20-11:40: Coffee break
11:40-12:40
Panel 2A: Prisoners of War
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Georgios Theotokis
- Dimitra Mytili (University of Ioannina) – Women as spoils of war in the Byzantine and Arabic sources.
- Marilia Lykaki (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Masculinity under captivity: An approach on military men at war during the Middle Byzantine Era
Panel 2B: Military discipline and order
Room: Multiple use room
Moderator: Angeliki Delikari
- Łukasz Różycki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) – Leading by example and by fear – means of commanding soldiers in the context of Byzantine military treatises
- Zhu Zi-yao (King’s College London) – On attitudes to confiscation as military punishment in the Paleologan Byzantium
12:40-14:40: Lunch break
14:40-16:20
Panel 3: Comnenian period
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Christos G. Makrypoulias
- Georgios Chatzelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Leadership and Deception in the Alexiad: The Stratagems of Alexios I and Bohemond
- Marek Meško (University of Hradec Králové) – Alexios I Komnenos in the battle of Dyrrachion (1081)
- Evangelos Nikolaou (Independent) – The use of battlefield stratagems during the Komnenian period (1081-1180): part of the battle tactics or an inevitable necessity?
- Theocharis Alexopoulos (Independent) – Andronikos I Komnenos as a military leader. Incompetent or overqualified?
16:20-16:40: Coffee break
16:40-18:00
Panel 4Α: Social and military elites I
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Konstantinos Karatolios
- Georgios Kardaras (Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation) – Social and military elites in the nomadic societies (4th-7th c.)
- Dimitrios Sidiropoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Combining authorities. Praefecti praetorio and magistri militum in Justinian’s Africa
- Nuray Ocakli (İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi) – The Military History of Late Medieval Kastoria in the Ottoman Registers (1389-1455): Military Structure, Christian Fief Holders, and Zaharia Church
Panel 4Β: Conflict and art
Room: Multiple use room
Moderator: Flora Karagianni
- Paschalis Androudis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Aspects of Byzantine-Seljuk confrontation in 12th-13th centuries and their depictions in Byzantine art.
- Agathoniki Tsilipakou (Director, Museum of Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki) – Military Saints in Byzantium. Iconography and Ideology through the Museum of Byzantine Culture’s collection of icons
18:20-20:00
Panel 5: Social and military elites IΙ
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Eric Dursteler
- Valentina Limina (University of Pisa) – Patrons in command. A seigneurial attitude of late antique élites: the Cecina Decii (centuries 5th-6th AD)
- Kyle Shih-Cong Fan Chiang (National Chung Hsing University, TAIWAN) – Ecclesiastical Authority on the Frontier and beyond: Bishops in the Romano-Persian Wars in Late Antiquity
- Nikolaos L. Kostourakis (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) – Leo V, Michael II and Thomas the Slav: social origin and kinship in the byzantine army.
- Chrysovalantis Papadamou (University of Cyprus) – The socio-political role of the Cypriot elites in the defence of Cyprus during the Venetian-Ottoman war of 1570-71
20:30: Conference Dinner
Saturday, 18 September
09:15: Georgios Theotokis (Ibn-Haldun University) – The military manuals as a literary genre: identifying common features in authorship, aim, historical context and literary clichés
10:00-11:20
Panel 6A: Leadership & generalship I
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis
- Kelly DeVries (Loyola University, Maryland) – When Tunisia Mattered: Keeping Suleyman out of the Western Mediterranean
- Eric Dursteler (Brigham Young University) – Cigalazade Sinan Paşa and the Battle for the Mediterranean during the Long Habsburg-Ottoman War (1591-1606)
- Glenn Bugh (Virginia Tech) – Francesco Morosini, ‘the Peloponnesian’: Generalship in the Morean War (1685-1694)
Panel 6B: Military geography and fortifications
Room: Multiple use room
Moderator: Łukasz Różycki
- Efstratia Sygkellou, Antonios Athanasopoulos, Christos Tsatsoulis (University of Ioannina) – Mapping the garrisons and forts of medieval Epirus: some historical and prosopographical remarks
- Evangelos Matsarokos (Independent) – Pirates and monks: application of spatial analysis to phenomena of the past.
- Georgios Kardaras-Bellos (National and Technical University of Athens) – The fortifications of Galaxidi
11:20-11:40: Coffee break
11:40-13:00
Panel 7A: Reconsidering leadership & tactics
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Chrysovalantis Papadamou
- Georgios Kalafikis (Centre for the Greek Language, Thessaloniki) – From Comitatus to Comitatenses: Neglected Sources concerning the Expeditionary Field Armies of Constantine the Great
- Anastasios Deleoglou (Independent) – River crossings in the historical works of John Kinnamos
- Jacopo Pessina (University of Pisa) – Military leaders for competences during the Italian Wars: veteran officers in Bartolomeo Peretti’s permanent mercenary unit, 1526-44
Panel 7B: Weapons – production, use, and typologies
Room: Multiple use room
Moderator: Paschalis Androudis
- Errikos Maniotis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – Classifying 5th to 7th century swords of the Byzantine army: The study of archaeological and iconographical material
- Dmytro Dymydyuk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv) – Between Byzantium and Muslim World: the Spear in Medieval Armenia (9th–13th c.)
- Iason-Eleftherios Tzouriadis (The Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers) – A case of sideswords: The urban duels of condottiero Ascanio della Corgna
13:00-15:00: Lunch break
15:00-16:00
Panel 8: New Tactics – battlefield innovations
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Konstantinos Takirtakoglou
- Nikolaos S. Kanellopoulos (Hellenic Military Academy, Evelpidon) – Infantry vs Cavalry in Frankish Greece: The battles of Berat (1281) and Vatonda (1280)
- Alexandru Madgearu (Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History, Bucharest) – The Arab-Byzantine War of 717-718 and its importance for European history
16:00-16:20: Coffee break
16:20-18:00
Panel 9: Leadership & generalship II
Room: Main amphitheatre
Moderator: Georgios Theotokis
- Ioannis Sarantidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) – The Grand Strategy of the Emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1078-1081). Byzantium’s Strategic Approach with the Seljuk Turks
- Konstantinos Karatolios (University of Crete) – The Idea of a Warrior- King in the Palaeologan Romances and Rhetorical Texts
- Nafsika Vassilopoulou (HFRI/University of the Aegean) – …with the courage of Ares…: The emperor as a warrior in historiography and the vernacular literature of the early Palaeologan era (mid-13th-mid 14th c.)
- Georgios Michailidis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) – Andronikos III Palaeologos (1328-1341), The last soldier-Emperor of Byzantium