Following the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, the Organizing Committee decided to produce an online publication of Proceedings from the Round Tables. According to the official title of the congress, "Byzantium - a World of Changes", AIEB together with the Organizing Committee, have decided to implement some changes to the concept of the Round Tables. The aim of these changes were to encourage discussion at the Round Tables by presenting preliminary papers at the website in advance. The idea was to introduce the topic and papers of the individual Round Tables that would be discussed, first between the participants, and then with the public present. Therefore, the conveners of the Round Tables were asked to create Round Tables with no more than 10 participants. They collected the papers, which were to be no longer than 18,000 characters in one of the official languages of the Congress and without footnotes or endnotes. Conveners provided a general statement on the goal of each roundtable and on the content of the papers.
The present volume contains papers from 49 Round Tables carefully selected to cover a wide range of topics, developed over the last five years since the previous Congress. The topics show diversity within fields and subfields, ranging from history to art history, archeology, philosophy, literature, hagiography, and sigillography. The Round Tables displayed current advances in research, scholarly debates, as well as new methodologies and concerns germane to all aspects of international Byzantine studies.
The papers presented in this volume were last sent to the congress organizers in the second week of August 2016 and represent the material that was on hand at that time and had been posted on the official website; no post-congress revisions have occurred. We present this volume in hope that it will be an initial step for further development of Round Tables into collections of articles and thematic books compiled and published following the Congress, in collaboration with other interested institutions and editors. With this volume, the organizers signal their appreciation of the efforts of more than 1600 participants who contributed, both to the Round Tables and to the Congress in general.
Author(s): Bojana Krsmanović, Ljubomir Milanović, Bojana Pavlović (eds.)
Publisher: The Serbian National Committee of AIEB
Year: 2016
Language: English, French, Russian
Pages: 1416
City: Belgrade
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Monday, 22nd August
Les nouveaux martyrs dans l’hagiographie byzantine / Conveners: André Binggeli, Sophie Métivier
Law as a Means of Change in Byzantium / Convener: Dafni Penna
The Shifting Dynamics Between Text and Society. Towards a Sociology of Byzantine Literature / Conveners: Floris Bernard, Alexander Riehle
Visual Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Byzantium: Different Visions & New Perspectives on Scientific Illustrations / Convener: Stavros Lazaris
Pour une nouvelle approche des effigies hagiographiques dans le décor des églises byzantines / Conveners: Catherine Jolivet-Lévy, Sulamith Brodbeck, Nano Chatzidakis
Crimes Against the State and the Church / Convener: Wolfram Brandes
Forces of Stability: Personal Agency and Microstructures / Convener: Claudia Rapp
L’auteur à Byzance: de l’écriture à son public / Convener: Paolo Odorico
Tuesday, 23rd August
The Early and Middle Byzantine Tradition of Aristotelian Logic: the Road from Alexandria to Constantinople / Convener: Christophe Erismann
The Episcopal Palace in Early Byzantium: Historical Development, Architectural Typologies, Domestic Spaces / Convener: Isabella Baldini
Byzantine Naxos in the Light of Recent Research / Convener: Paul Magdalino
Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature / Conveners: Anne Alwis, Martin Hinterberger, Elisabeth Schiffer
Du manuscrit de lois à l’acte écrit: la pratique juridique à Byzance / Conveners: Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Raúl Estangüi Gómez
Les relations diplomatiques byzantines (IVe-XVe siècles): Permanence et/ou changements / Conveners: Elisabeth Malamut, Nicolas Drocourt
Poetic Circles and Anthologies in Byzantium / Conveners: Delphine Lauritzen, Emilie Van Opstall
Philosophers and Philosophical Books in Byzantium / Conveners: Michele Trizio, Pantelis Golitsis
New Perspectives on the Byzantine City as Consumption Centre / Convener: Joanita Vroom
Beyond the Periphery: Islands of Byzantium Between 7th and 13th Century / Conveners: Giuseppe Mandalà, Luca Zavagno
Michael Psellos. One Thousand Years of a Polymath’s Birth / Convener: Frederick Lauritzen
Thessaloniki in the Age of Comnenoi and Angeloi / Conveners: Maria Kambouri-Vamvoukou, Polymnia Katsoni
Reapproaching Iconoclasm. New Perspectives and Material / Conveners: Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou, Marielle Martiniani-Reber
Byzantine and Latins in the Greek Mainland and the Islands (13th-15th Centuries): Archaeological and Artistic Evidence af an Interrelation / Conveners: Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Vassiliki Vicky Foskolou
Liturgical Poetry as Literature: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Artistry / Convener: Derek Krueger
Wednesday, 24th August
Le rôle des miracles et des recueils de miracles / Conveners: Vincent Déroche, Stephanos Efthymiadis
At the Origins of the Highbrow Byzantine Language: Innovation And Tradition In Middle- And Latebyzantine School Instruction / Conveners: Antonio Rollo, Nicolo Zorzi
Les frontières et les limites du patriarcat de Constantinople / Conveners: Marie Hélène Blanchet, Dan Ion Mureşan
La mort et la mémoire sociale: rites funéraires, art et archéologie de la tombe à Byzance et en peripherie. Death and Social Memory: Funerary Practices and the Art of the Tomb in Byzantium and Beyond / Conveners: Andreas Nicolaïdès, Maria Parani
Food, Environment and Landscape in Byzantium / Conveners: James Crow, Adam Izdebski
The Dialectics of Theory and Practice in Byzantine Medicine and Science / Conveners: Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos
Byzantium in the Context of World Trade / Convener: Liliana Simeonova
The Translations of Latin Texts Into Greek and of Greek Texts Into Latin as an Expression of the Cultural Exchange Between East And West (XIII-XV Centuries) / Convener: Roberto Fusco
The Agency of Inscriptions in Byzantium, in the West And in the Slavonic World / Convener: Andreas Rhoby
Gesture and Performance in Byzantium / Convener: Michael Grünbart
Imperial Responses to Pagan Hellenic Education in the Fifth-Sixth Centuries / Convener: Fiona Haarer
The Black Sea Region Between East and West in the 13th-15th Centuries: New Sources and Approaches / Convener: Sergey Karpov
La fabrique des oeuvres: autographes, brouillons, révisions et éditions / Conveners: Antonio Rigo, Brigitte Mondrain
Thursday, 25th August
Icons of Space, Icons in Space. Iconography or Hierotopy? / Convener: Alexei Lidov
Byzantium – a Narrative in Constant Change / Conveners: Ingela Nilsson, Aglae Pizzone
Роль славянских переводов в истории византийской литературы и церковной письменности / Conveners: Ђорђе Трифуновић (Đorđe Trifunović), Анатолий А. Турилов (Anatolij A. Turilov)
Historical Geography of Byzantium in the 21st Century: New Methods and Theories / Convener: Mihailo St. Popović
Maneuvering the Holy: Spirits, Icons, Indulgences and Mental Mappings in Fifteenth-Eighteenth Century Orthodoxies / Conveners: Charles Barber, Elena N. Boeck
Transformation Processes Between Byzantium and the Islamic World / Conveners: Alexander Beihammer, Johannes Pahlitzsch
Byzantine World Chronicle as Open Text / Conveners: Zoltán Farkas, László Horváth
Les centres et ateliers de copie balkaniques: Scribes, ornemanistes, miniaturistes / Conveners: Axinia Džurova, Elina Dobrynina
The Evaluation of Sigillographic Data for Research on the History of Byzantium / Conveners: Jean-Claude Cheynet, Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt
Exile: Continuity and Change in the Empire of Nicaea / Conveners: Dimiter Angelov, Ekaterini Mitsiou
Issues of Sinaitic Iconography / Conveners: Maria Panagiotidou, Miodrag Markovic, Nikolas Fyssas, Dionysis Mourelatos
Language and Society. Historical Sociolinguistic Patterns in the Greek of Late Byzantine Historians / Conveners: Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Niels Gaul
Changes et échanges monétaires autour de la Méditerranée Orientale après 1204 / Conveners: Cécile Morrisson, Pagona Papadopoulou
