IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 613: Moving Byzantium, II: Beyond the Borders of Byzantium - New Rome and Its Near and Far East

Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency in Byzantium', Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser:	Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Nicholas Evans, Clare College, University of Cambridge
Paper 613-a	Reconstructing the (Inter)National Community: Peter the Iberian and His Monasteries (Language: English) Yanina Tchekhanovets, Israel Antiquities Authority, Jerusalem Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Byzantine Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism
Paper 613-b	Wandering Gold, Whirling Discs from Sinai: On the Transfer of an Art Technique (Language: English) Magdalena Garnczarska, Instytut Historii Sztuki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków Index terms: Art History - Painting, Byzantine Studies, Crusades, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 613-c	Feigned Mobility in the Service of Religious Rapprochement?: The Curious Case of Paul of Antioch (Language: English) Peter F. Schadler, Department of Religion, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania / Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik, Universität Wien Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Religious Life
Paper 613-d	Little Romanland in the Far East: Comparing the Political Culture of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910) with the Byzantine and Holy Roman Empires (Language: English) Ilsoo Cho, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The research programme 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 is achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, micro-structures, and personal agency. In this session, the mobility of individuals, technologies, religious discourses, and imperial ideas is discussed for Byzantium's 'Near East' in the Levant and Egypt as well as far beyond the Mediterranean in a comparative case study on political imaginations in medieval Korea.