IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 225: Byzantium in Context, I: Configuration of the Past - Perceptions and Realities in 13th-Century Byzantium
Monday 6 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Byzanzforschung / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institute for Historical Research, Section of Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens |
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| Organiser: | Ekaterini Mitsiou, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Department of Byzantine Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mihailo Popović, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 225-a | The Nicaean Empire: Renewal in Exile (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Economics - General, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 225-b | The Byzantine Empire Restored, 1261: Past Affinities and a New Beginning (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 225-c | 'Archaeology' (= logos peri archaion) and Perceptions of the Past in Late Byzantine Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The aim of this session is to look into the realities created by the collapse of Byzantium after 1204 until the end of the 13th century. It has been argued that the Byzantines followed the past rather than creating new elements. Nevertheless, a more adequate explanatory model - especially regarding a period of crisis - is the one of innovation through configuration, adjustment, and elaboration. The papers of this session are focusing on questions pertaining to above-mentioned topics taking also into consideration the Seljuk aspect as comparative perspective. |