IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 109: Byzantine Exceptionalism: New Perspectives
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art & Culture, Hellenic College Holy Cross, Massachusetts |
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Organiser: | Christian Raffensperger, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio |
Moderator/Chair: | Christian Raffensperger, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio |
Paper 109-a | Constantinople: Court, Crowd, and Classicism (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Paper 109-b | Early Muscovite Views of Byzantium (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 109-c | How Byzantine Was Late Antique Egypt? (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - General, Byzantine Studies |
Abstract | The debate about the place of Byzantium in the premodern world is far from finished. Was Byzantium simply Rome and thus incomprehensible in comparison with anything else? Was it instead just another medieval state, among many? Was it 'other' or were its neighbors 'other' to it? This panel uses archaeological, art historical, and historical perspectives, as well as new vantage points, including Rome, Muscovy, and Egypt, to look at the place of Byzantium in the medieval world. This discussion will help medievalists, Byzantinists, and others think through their characterization of not just Byzantium but their own objects of study. |