# The Medieval Caucasus Network ## Posts - [Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus: Programme](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2026/03/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 (Birkbeck, University of London)- ‘Weapons of the Weak? Resistance to Lordship in the Early Medieval Caucasus’ Ana Lomadze (Ilia State University)- ‘Neoplatonic Discourse in Medieval Georgia: A Weapon for or against Non-Elites?’ Samir Khotko (online) (Adyghe State University)- ‘Зерно и люди на экспорт: экономика черкесского […] - [Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus - Registration Open](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2026/02/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 of representation, and relationships with neighbouring imperial powers. While significant advances have resulted from these historiographies, the actions, relationships and worldviews of social groups further from power remain less clear. Comparative studies across political and language barriers remain sparse, as are region-wide methodological paradigms for […] - [Call for Papers: International Medieval Congress 2026, Temporalities in Caucasia](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2025/08/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 of the Caucasus throughout the approximate period from 500-1500 AD, and which touch in some way upon the theme of time and temporality, will be considered. This could include understandings of time and chronology in the period itself, discussions of event chronologies, examinations of the […] - [Call for Papers: Studying Non-Elites in the Medieval Caucasus](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2025/07/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 the attached Call for Papers for further details. Please share the CfP widely!  This conference aims to present new, comparative and connective approaches to the study of non-elite groups in the medieval Caucasus, including but not limited to:- Peasants and non-elite pastoralists– Enslaved people– Non-elite […] - [The Medieval Caucasus at IMC 2025](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2025/07/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 how we should understand the creation of its outer wings, and Irakli Tezelashvili discussing the importance of Hellenophile scholarly and clerical networks in forging new power relationships in the era of David IV that can be traced through the period’s architecture. John Latham-Sprinkle then spoke […] - [Call for Papers: Learning Caucasian Worlds (IMC Leeds 2025)](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2024/07/call-for-papers-learning-caucasian-worlds-imc-leeds-2025/): Dear friends, We’re delighted to once again present our call for paper for next year’s International Medieval Congress, below: image and pdf versions of the call are attached, and we strongly encourage you to share the call widely in your networks. We encourage scholars at all levels to submit, and look forward to seeing you in Leeds next year! With best wishes, James, Nick, John, Bella & Kate (Convenors) Plaintext version: The Medieval Caucasus Network are seeking papers for a strand at the next International Medieval Congress, which will be held on the 7-10 July 2025, covering ideas and cultures […] - [The Medieval Caucasus at IMC2024](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2024/07/the-medieval-caucasus-at-imc2024/): We once again had a great run of International Medieval Congress sessions this year, with two panels and a roundtable covering a wide array of approaches and aspects of life in the medieval Caucasus. Our first panel focused on religious responses to crisis: Kate Franklin and Ani Honarchian gave the first paper, looking at how different texts encoded different relationships between landscape and the body in Armenian medieval writings, and how the ‘pollution’ of bodies could act as a literary proxy for wider fears and crises. Whitney Kite discussed the now almost inaccessible monastery at Hoṙomos, its floodplain-island position and […] - [Medieval Caucasus Panels: Leeds IMC 2024](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2024/06/medieval-caucasus-panels-leeds-imc2024/): For those of you at the International Medieval Congress 2024, we hope you’ll be joining us on Monday July 1st for our panel series this year. Please note that the planned session I, Cities and Economies, has been withdrawn due to some panelists being unable to attend. The Caucasus In Crisis Religion and Belief (Panel, 14:15 – 15:45)Session chair: Nick Evans These papers touch on a range of different ways in which religion and faith shaped responses to and moments of crisis in the medieval Caucasus, from their intersections with early medieval politics to the crises facing monastic institutions and […] - [Medieval Caucasus Network: Statement on Georgia’s Foreign Agents Law](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2024/05/medieval-caucasus-network-statement-on-georgias-foreign-agents-law/): We, the co-ordinating committee of the Medieval Caucasus Network, would like to express our concern regarding the Foreign Agents Law recently passed by the Georgian parliament with the following statement. We wish to express our deep concern and fears about the potential impacts of these legal changes, and to extend our solidarity to those protesting against this legislation. As a scholarly network, we have a broad responsibility where possible to not take sides on national and international issues on any sort of factional, national, or partisan basis. Our remit covers the whole of the Caucasus, and fostering dialogue and communication […] - [გამარჯობა, world!](https://medievalcaucasus.org/2024/04/hello-world/): Welcome to the new Medieval Caucasus Network website. This space will include updates on our current and future activities promoting study and connecting scholars of the Caucasus across the region. The website includes a blog which will be used to post details of upcoming events and calls for papers, and information about the network and its convenors: more information and areas of the website will be opened in the coming months. If you want to add our site to an RSS reader to keep updated, you can do so at https://medievalcaucasus.org/feed. Thanks for dropping by! ## Pages - [Join Us](https://medievalcaucasus.org/join-us/): The Medieval Caucasus Network does not have a formal membership system, but we do have an active emailing list through which list members are encouraged to share new publications, upcoming events, and other issues important to schoalrship on the medieval Caucasus. Our network is for scholarship on the medieval Caucasus of all kinds and at all levels, including welcoming independent scholars and graduate students. If you wish to join our email list, please send an email to Dr. James Baillie, james.baillie(at)oeaw.ac.at. - [About Us](https://medievalcaucasus.org/about-us/): The Medieval Caucasus Network has for a number of years been at the forefront of building scholarly networks and facilitating communication on studies of the medieval Caucasus region. We take a broad definition of our region, methodologies, and time period, including studies of the Subcaucasus, South or Trans- Caucasus, and North Caucasus in our work, and seeking to facilitate communication across boundaries of field, approach, and nationality. In particular we annually organise the Caucasus panels for the Leeds International Medieval Congress, and we maintain a mailing list for medievalists with an interest in Caucasus studies. We have a group of […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)