This volume explores how forced movement and exile of clerics developed over time and
ultimately came to shape interactions between the late-antique Roman Empire the Byzantine
post-Roman and early medieval worlds. It investigates the politics and legal mechanics of
ecclesiastical exile the locations associated with life in exile both in literary sources and
in material culture as well as the multitude of strategies which ancient and early medieval
authors and the exiles themselves employed to create historical narratives of banishment. The
chapters are revised versions of papers given at international conferences held at the
Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg the German Historical Institute London and the
University of Alcalá in 2016 and 2017.
