Implementing the decision of the General Assembly of the AIE B (Athens 2013), the Organizing Committee of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Belgrade August 2016) has introduced certain changes which seemed necessary with regard to the programme and format of the plenary sessions. The aim of these changes was to find room for discussion during the sessions themselves. Each session now includes three lectures on a common topic and is moderated by a chairperson whose main task will be to facilitate the discussion among the speakers as well as between them and the public. The chosen topics were selected as representative of certain subfields of particular interest within the present state of Byzantine studies. The last session is devoted to the future of Byzantine studies, characterized by a new dynamics in terms both of expansion and of the techniques of research.
The present volume contains twenty papers to be given at the plenary sessions, together with the respective introductions and conclusions. In the introduction to each session, the moderators offer their view of the current state of the field, thus providing the necessary scholarly background for the following lectures and the ensuing discussion. The topics selected belong to different subfields: hagiography, the archeology of early Byzantine towns, the study of religious practices and the senses, the inquiry into the political and ideological influence of the idea of "Romanitas" among the Slavs, the study of Byzantine historical writing. All the papers in this volume focus on the new developments in the field, the recent discoveries and innovative methodological trends. The hope of the Organizing Committee is that the papers reflect the sum of our present capacity to face the challenge of the new approaches, whether they mainly submit traditional ideas to a searching re-examination or, alternatively, concentrate on the opening of new areas for research.
The official motto of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, "Byzantium – a world of changes", acts as a sort of fil rouge to the present volume. By choosing the old dictum of Maximos Planoudes, we wanted to bring into focus both the ever changing nature of the scholarly inquiry into the Byzantine world and the inexhaustible interest of that world itself.
Author(s): Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić (ed.)
Publisher: The Serbian National Committee of AIEB
Year: 2016
Language: English, French
Pages: XII+356
City: Belgrade
Foreword vi
List of Abbreviations ix
I. L’âge d’or de l’hagiographie byzantine
Sergey A. Ivanov / Introduction 1
Bernard Flusin / Entre innovation et tradition: hagiographie nouvelle et saints anciens (VIIIe‒Xe s.) 13
Vincent Déroche / L’âge d’or de l’hagiographie: nouvelles formes et nouvelles tendances 35
Antonio Rigo / Le cas de deux nouveaux saints aux Xe‒XIe siècle: contrôle et répression de la hiérarchie 41
Sergey A. Ivanov / Conclusion 59
II. The Byzantine City and the Archaeology of the Third Millennium
James Crow / Introduction 65
Jorge López Quiroga / Early Byzantine Urban Landscapes in the Southwest and Southeast Mediterranean 69
Vujadin Ivanišević / Caričin Grad (Justiniana Prima): A New-Discovered City for a "New" Society 107
Enrico Zanini / Coming to the End: Early Byzantine Cities after the mid-6th Century 127
James Crow / Conclusion 141
III. Byzantine Religious Practices and the Senses
Charles Barber / Notes Towards a Plenary Paper on the Senses, Perception, and the Work of Art 147
Béatrice Caseau / Rituels chrétiens et sensorialité 159
Glenn Peers / Senses’ Other Sides 175
Eric Palazzo / Sensory Activation in Liturgy and Art in the Early Middle Ages: The Initials "O" in the Sacramentary of Gellone 189
IV. Romanitas and Slavia: Political and Ideological Relationships between the Slavs and Old and New Rome (6th‒16th Century)
Paul Stephenson / Opening statement 201
Ivan Biliarsky / L’héritage romain et constantinopolitain en Bulgarie et l’idée de la sauvegarde de l’empire et du peuple 207
Srđan Pirivatrić / The Serbs and the Overlapping Authorities of Rome and Constantinople (7th to 16th Century): An Overview of the Political and Ideological Relationships 223
Kirill A. Maksimovič / Medieval Russia between Two Romes: Challenges and Responses (10th–16th Centuries) 241
V. How the Byzantines Wrote History
Ruth Macrides / How the Byzantines Wrote History 257
Leonora Neville / Why Did the Byzantines Write History? 265
Warren Treadgold / The Unwritten Rules for Writing Byzantine History 277
Anthony Kaldellis / The Manufacture of History in the Later Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Rhetorical Templates and Narrative Ontologies 293
VI. Byzantine Studies in the New Millenium
Claudia Rapp / Introduction 309
Sofia Kotzabassi / Byzantine Studies in the New Millennium: The Perspective of Texts and Manuscripts 313
Jean-Michel Spieser / Histoire de l’art et archéologie dans les études byzantines: bilans et perspectives 319
Jan Ziolkowski / Byzantine Studies in North America: Position and Perspectives 327
Bronwen Neil / Byzantine Scholarship in Australia in the New Millennium 333
Xu Jialing / Byzantine Studies in the New Millennium: New Developments in China 341
Claudia Rapp Postscript 355
