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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
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-aInteractive Reading of the Past: Excerpta Constantiniana and the Suda
(Language: English)
András Németh, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 711-bTeaching and Learning Mathematics in 11th-Century Byzantium: The Case of the 'Anonymous Heiberg'
(Language: English)
Divna Manolova, Department of Philology, University of Silesia, Katowice
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Science
Paper 711-cRéactivation de savoirs comme stratégie de survie: les livres des migrants dans la Méditerranée du VIIe s.
(Language: Français)
Filippo Ronconi, Centre d'Études Byzantines, Néo-Helléniques et sud-est Européennes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
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.