IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 709: Moving Byzantium, III: Religious and Political Crises as Triggers for Mobility
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Wittgenstein-Prize Project 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency', Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Organiser: | Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ekaterini Mitsiou, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien |
| Paper 709-a | Moving Byzantium from Rome?: Comparing 8th- and 9th-Century Anti-Iconoclast Migration (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Social History |
| Paper 709-b | Byzantine Jewry between East and West: Shemarya of Negroponte and His Scholarly Network (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Semitic, Philosophy |
| Paper 709-c | Moving Society: The Byzantine Balkans in the First Half of the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Social History |
| Abstract | The project Moving Byzantium highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyses the internal flexibility of Byzantine society. It aims to contribute to a re-evaluation of a society and culture that has traditionally been depicted as stiff, rigid, and encumbered by its own tradition. This will be achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, microstructures, and personal agency. In this session, religious communities and theological conflict as well as political crisis as background and motives for mobility will be discussed on the basis of known and new documentary evidence from the middle and late Byzantine period. |