Urbanisation in the Afro-Eurasian Commercial Revolution 800-1330: The case of Ani, lecture by Nik Matheou (Armenian Institute, London), a Silk Roads Programme event, Zoom and King's College Cambridge, October 22, 2021, 2:00 pm (UK)

Nik Matheou is  social historian specialising in the Middle East and Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, particularly Anatolia, Upper Mesopotamia and Caucasia (approximately modern-day Turkey, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, as well as parts of northern Syria and Iraq). His research particularly focuses on the empire of New Rome (“Byzantium”), the medieval Armenian and Georgian polities, and the city of Ani, between the ninth and fourteenth centuries.

Join us to hear more about his work on the important economic and political centre of Ani.

Advance registration required.