2023-12-27 13:20:49
TheThe Mediterranean was the scene of a large number of empires which made it the territory of their advent and one of the privileged centers of their expansion. Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Persian, Seleucid empires, Macedonian-Hellenistic empire, from Alexander the Great, to the Roman Empire, East and West, which founded Mare Nostrum.
Were these empires of men supplanted by empires of God, at the time of the affirmation of Christianity, then of Islam, in the 7th century? What about the Byzantine Empire, in the neighborhood of Islam? From Sicily, Christian, Muslim then Christian again, with the Normans, to the dreams of empire of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen? What is the contribution of the thought of Ibn Khaldûn, who theorized empires from the world of Islam? “How they arise, how they collapse”? What, ultimately, is the significance of the memories of empires in trying to better understand our world and our contemporary history?
A round table moderated by Jean-Christophe Ploquin (La Croix), with:
• Gabriel Martinez-Gros, professor emeritus of medieval history at Paris-Nanterre University, specialist in the history of Al-Andalus. He has notably published Brief History of Empires (Seuil, 2014, Points-Seuil 2016), and of The Islamic Empire (Passés compound, 2019, Points-Seuil, 2021).
• Annliese Nef, professor of medieval history at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. A Normalienne and former member of the French School of Rome, she studies the history of the medieval Islamic West, and in particular the history of the Islamization process in the first centuries of Islam.
• Arietta Papaconstantinou, professor of Byzantine history, Aix-Marseille-Université. His research interests span the religious, social, and economic history of Egypt and the Near East during the transition from the Roman Empire to the Caliphate. She is particularly interested in the evolution of Christian communities during the first two centuries of Islamic domination.
• Claire Sotinel, professor of Roman history at the University of Paris-Est-Créteil. She directs the Center for Research in Comparative European History. A specialist in Late Antiquity, she is particularly interested in the impact of religious changes on Western Mediterranean societies between the 3rd and 6th centuries.
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