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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 2201: Moving Byzantium, III: Writing on the Move across Genres and Materials

Friday 9 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Wittgenstein-Award Project 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency', FWF Austrian National Research Foundation / Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser:Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:Giulia Rossetto, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien
Paper 2201-aEpigraphic Habit and Migration across Early Byzantium: 7th-Century Apse Inscriptions in Santa Maria Antiqua between Rome and Egypt
(Language: English)
Arkady Avdokhin, Institute for Antiquity & Near East Studies, Russian State University of Humanities
Index terms: Art History - General, Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Epigraphy
Paper 2201-bBooks on the Move: The Circulation of Manuscripts in 12th-Century Byzantium
(Language: English)
Ilias Nesseris, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Education, Language and Literature - Greek, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 2201-cMoving Identity through Poetry in the 13th-Century Byzantine World
(Language: English)
Krystina Kubina, Institut für Mittelalterforschung Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Wien
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Rhetoric, Social History
Paper 2201-dSultan on the Move: Sulaymān ibn Qutlamish in Byzantine Rhetoric of the 11th-12th Centuries
(Language: English)
Roman Shliakhtin, Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Language and Literature - Greek, Military History, 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. This session focuses on reflections of mobility in written evidence from epigraphy, historiography and poetry from the Byzantine world and the Christian East between Late Antiquity and the 13th century, integrating archaeology and philological analysis.