Ethnonemesis: The creation and disappearance of ethnic identities in the medieval East and West

A conference to be held at the University of Edinburgh, 3 - 5 June 2005, to mark the retirement of the distinguished Byzantine historian, Professor Michael Angold.  

Ethnogenesis has in recent years proved a much discussed, if highly controversial, subject among historians. However much of the attention has been devoted to peoples in the early medieval West who are successful in asserting their ethnic identity in the medium or long term, such as the Franks, Goths and Lombards. But what about the peoples who lose their identity as a result of various factors? Also the same degree of attention has not been paid to the identity-formation of peoples in the central and late middle ages, and in Eastern Europe. This conference will look more broadly at the ways in which various ethnic identities came to prominence while others failed to survive in various Eastern and Western societies in the middle ages and beyond.  

Keynote speaker:
Dr Susan Reynolds, Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford: 'Ethnicity and politics'.

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We are pleased to acknowledge the sponsorship of the Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies Programme of the University of Edinburgh and of the Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna.