Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story?

This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. is true also depictions mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these their own purposes beyond event at hand. Authorial focus, along with requirements chosen literary genre, reason different scales actors that appear in texts, whether large blurry masses nameless people, smaller groups a distinct profile, or finely drawn individuals.