IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1714: Byzantium in Context, III: The Connected Church - Ecclesiastical Networks in Comparison
Thursday 10 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF), Athens |
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| Organiser: | David Natal Villazala, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ekaterini Mitsiou, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Department of Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens |
| Paper 1714-a | Milan Calling to the Faraway Towns: Ambrose of Milan between Secular and Ecclesiastical Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 1714-b | Patronage and Clientele in the Late Medieval Church: Possibilities of Reconstruction and Analysis of Clerical Networks in 14th-15th-Century Germany (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Religious Life |
| Paper 1714-c | Beyond Hierarchies: Networks, Space, and Decision-Making in the Late Byzantine Church (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Social History |
| Paper 1714-d | Sacred Landscapes and Transportation Networks in the Southern Balkan Peninsula, 14th-16th Centuries: Interaction and Interdependence on Micro- and Macro-Levels of Research (Language: English) |
| Abstract | Since the emergence of the Christian church, the construction and maintenance of far reaching connections among it communities was a primary objective; later, these connections were formalised within the episcopal hierarchy. In addition, monastic communities created similarly extended webs of communication and exchange. Finally, clergymen and monks established networks within, but also beyond the frameworks of hierarchy, not of less relevance for the actual cohesion and operation of the church and it spiritual personnel. The tools of network analysis allow us to survey, visualise and analyse these entanglements; the presentation of case studies from the Western as well as Eastern Church also opens a comparative perspective. |