Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

高级研究中心致力于研究公元250年至900年间欧洲和地中海的移民和流动性。它的目标是通过提出新的问题和探索回答这些问题的创新方法和方法，在新的基础上对从根本上塑造欧亚历史这一时期的现象进行学术辩论。虽然在过去的几十年里，关于古代晚期和中世纪早期移民的学术辩论一直围绕着种族和身份的问题，我们的小组旨在扩大辩论的视野，将种族定义的群体的流动性嵌入当时更广泛的移民和流动性历史中。为此，我们超越了所谓的“迁移期”的传统界限。375-568），并检查相关的现象，从第3至第9世纪行政长官。更具体地说，我们超越了大型民族或军事团体的迁移，并在此期间的个人和集体流动的其他现象的背景下进行分析。我们建议通过引入移民和流动的经济框架以及分析其对当地社区的影响，为学术辩论增加新的或被忽视的方面。我们从比较历史的角度分析了这一时期的移民和流动性，并借鉴了当代社会流动性和移民研究的方法和见解。在第二个资助期，我们希望继续致力于这些目标，但也增加了新的方面，有助于发展对古代晚期和中世纪移民和流动性的未来研究视角。我们建议重点关注以下四个主题，我们认为这是未来研究的特别有前途的领域：（1）加强对我们这个时期移民的欧亚层面的研究;（2）对目前应用于我们这个时期研究的科学方法和技术的批判性参与;（3）移民和流动的微观政治;（4）沉默的移民;（5）精英流动性。通过将这些观点与第一个资助期的观点相结合，我们的目标是取得可以与其他时期的移民和流动性研究对话的成果，包括当今社会的研究。与此同时，该中心希望检验根据典型的历史先例在现代社会中形成的移徙和流动概念。在这样做的过程中，我们寻求为理解当代世界最具政治，社会，经济和文化意义的现象做出贡献。

The Centre for Advanced Studies is devoted to the study of migration and mobility in Europe and the Mediterranean between 250 and 900 CE. Its objective is to set the scholarly debate about a phenomenon that fundamentally shaped this period in Eurasian History on a new footing by raising new questions and exploring innovative approaches and methods for answering them. While in the last decades scholarly debate about late antique and early medieval migrations has centered around questions of ethnicity and identity, our group aims to broaden the horizon of debate by embedding the mobility of ethnically defined groups in the wider history of migration and mobility at the time. To this end we move beyond the traditional boundaries of the so-called “migration period” (ca. 375-568) and examine pertinent phenomena from the 3rd to the 9th century CE. More particularly, we look beyond the migration of large ethnic or military groups and analyze it in the context of other phenomena of individual and collective mobility in the period. We propose to add new or neglected aspects to the scholarly debate by bringing in the economic framework of migration and mobility as well as analyzing their consequences for local communities. And we analyze migration and mobility in the period from a comparative historical perspective and draw on approaches and insights from research on mobility and migration in contemporary societies.In the second funding period we wish to continue working on these objectives but also add new aspects that help develop the perspectives for future research on migration and mobility in late antiquity and the middle ages. We propose to focus on the following four themes which we regard as particularly promising areas for future research: (1) an intensification of research on the Eurasian dimension of migration in our period; (2) a critical engagement with scientific methods and technologies currently applied to the study of our period; (3) the micropolitics of migration and mobility; (4) silent migrants; and (5) elite mobility.By combing these perspectives with those of the first funding period, we aim to achieve results that can be brought into dialogue with research on migration and mobility in other periods, including those in present-day societies. At the same time, the Centre wants to test conceptualizations of migration and mobility developed with regard to modern societies on the basis of a paradigmatic historical precedent. In so doing, we seek to make a contribution to understanding a phenomenon of utmost political, social, economic, and cultural significance in the contemporary world.