IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 711: CEU 25, III: Byzantine Studies - Reactivations of Knowledge
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
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Organiser: | Floris Bernard, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Moderator/Chair: | Alice Choyke, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest |
Paper 711-a | Interactive Reading of the Past: Excerpta Constantiniana and the Suda (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 711-b | Teaching and Learning Mathematics in 11th-Century Byzantium: The Case of the 'Anonymous Heiberg' (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Science |
Paper 711-c | Réactivation de savoirs comme stratégie de survie: les livres des migrants dans la Méditerranée du VIIe s. (Language: Français) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
Abstract | The enormous body of knowledge from Antiquity was stored in Byzantine memory through the medium of manuscripts. However, we have increasingly become aware of the dynamic character of manuscripts. Knowledge was selected, compiled, manipulated, with various ends in mind: political ideologies, pragmatic circumstances, new educational mindsets, etc. This session wants to trace these reactivations and manipulations, studying scientific and other manuscripts in their contemporary context, focusing on strategies of selection, rearrangement, modification, and recontextualisation. |