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Medieval Caucasus Meeting at the 2026 International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Vienna
On August 28th we hosted an informal evening gathering alongside the 2026 International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Vienna. More than twenty-five Caucasiologists attending the Congress joined the gathering, representing countries across the world and fields including history, art history, digital humanities, reception studies, and architectural history. We had a wide array of discussions over…
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IMC 2027 Call for Papers: Communal Identity and the Caucasus
Plain text version: The Medieval Caucasus Network are seeking papers for a strand at the nextInternational Medieval Congress, which will be held on the 5th to 8th July 2027,covering notions of communal identity within and connected to the Caucasus region.Paper abstracts approaching any aspect of the archaeology, cultures, faiths, societies,economies, and politics of the Caucasus…
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The Medieval Caucasus at IMC2026
We’ve just had this year’s International Medieval Congress, and once again we had some excellent discussions on the region hosted at the University of Leeds as part of one of the world’s largest discussion spaces for medieval history. We had two panels this year: the first covered a range of ways that the social and…
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‘The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania’ wins Royal Historical Society book prize
The Royal Historical Society first book prize has this year been won by a book on the medieval Caucasus, MCN co-convenor John Latham-Sprinkle’s The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850–1240. John’s book covers the formation and appropriation of Christianity, its ideas and iconography, in the north Caucasus from the ninth century onwards, both emphasising the depth…
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Studying Non-elites in the Medieval Caucasus: Reflections
One week ago (13-14 March) the Medieval Caucasus Network had its first international conference! We gathered at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for two days of hybrid format discussions. The theme of the conference, led by Dr. John Latham-Sprinkle as its senior organiser, was studying non-elites in the medieval Caucasus. While exact definitions of a non-elite…
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Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus: Programme
Day One—13th March 09.00- 09.30 Welcome and Registration 09.30 Introduction Bart Lambert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 09.45 Keynote 1 Nik Matheou (Edinburgh University)- “Run for the Hills”: Seeing Like a Subaltern in the Medieval Caucasus 10.45-11.15 Coffee Break 11.15-13.00 Session 1: Global Theoretical Perspectives on Caucasian Non-Elites Panel Chair: John Latham-Sprinkle (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Nicholas Evans…
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Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus – Registration Open
First International Conference of the Medieval Caucasus Network U-Residence, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 13th-14th March 2026 Modern historiographies of the medieval Caucasus, from the establishment of Christianity in the South Caucasus to the emergence of the Ottoman-Safavid rivalry, have been dominated by the operation of political and ecclesiastical elites, including their mutual interactions, modes…
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Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress 2026, Temporalities in Caucasia
The Medieval Caucasus Network are seeking papers for a strand at the next International Medieval Congress, which will be held on the 6th to 9th July 2026, covering ideas, historiographies and cultures around time within and connected to the Caucasus region. Paper abstracts approaching any aspect of the archaeology, cultures, faiths, societies, economies, and politics…
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Call for Papers: Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus
Call for Papers for the First International Conference of the Medieval Caucasus Network, entitled ‘Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus’. This will take place at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, Belgium, on March 13th-14th 2026. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 30th, 2025, and they should be sent to mcnconference2026@gmail.com. Please see below and…
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The Medieval Caucasus at IMC 2025
At this year’s International Medieval Congress we organised two sessions on our theme of Learning Caucasian Worlds. Our organisers for this year were James Baillie and Nick Evans, and Nick and Irakli Tezelashvili were our two session moderators. In our first session we had Sopio Gagoshidze discuss the Kakhuli Triptych and some alternative possibilities for…