IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 840: Building and Breaking Cultural Barriers on Medieval Mount Athos
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | ERC Project MAMEMS 'Mount Athos in Medieval Eastern Mediterranean Society: Contextualising the History of a Monastic Republic, c. 850-1550' |
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| Organiser: | Zachary Chitwood, European Research Council Project 'FOUNDMED - Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons', Humboldt Universität, Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Zachary Chitwood, European Research Council Project 'FOUNDMED - Foundations in Medieval Societies: Cross-Cultural Comparisons', Humboldt Universität, Berlin |
| Paper 840-a | From the Caucasus to Mount Athos: Language Barriers in Iviron Monastery (Language: English) Index terms: Liturgy, Monasticism |
| Paper 840-b | OpenAtlas: Open Software for Overcoming Borders between Disciplines (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies |
| Abstract | As a microcosm of the Christian Orthodox world, medieval Mount Athos attracted monks, patrons, and pilgrims from throughout Southeastern and Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus. The monasteries of the Holy Mountain, which formed what was in essence a monastic confederation, over the course of the medieval period saw different approaches to negotiating cultural differences: from the creation of so-called 'ethnic monasteries' to complex internal regulations which determined the space and scope for each culture of Orthodoxy. The papers in this session will explore how these cultural boundaries were formulated, maintained, and sometimes even broken in this unique environment. |