Byzantine Studies in Kharkiv: History and Perspectives. Poster

Overview of sessions and papers with contributions from Byzantine Studies from Vienna at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies Venice and Padua, 22-27 August 2022, see also https://byzcongress2022.org/programme/, compiled by Ekaterini Mitsiou.

The Byzantine Studies Conference is the annual forum for the presentation and discussion of papers embodying current research on all aspects of Byzantine history and culture. The Abstracts of Papers is produced from electronic copies supplied by the speakers.

THE FINAL VERSION OF THE PROGRAM

Byzantine Studies from Vienna at the IMC Leeds 2019 (sessions and papers in chronological order; see also https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc2019/programme/)

Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions. The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, 2022

OPEN ACCESS: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 The present volume collects most of the contributions to the plenary sessions held at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, and incisively reflects the ever increasing broadening of the very concept of ‘Byzantine Studies’. Indeed, a particularly salient characteristic of the papers presented here is their strong focus on interdisciplinarity and their breadth of scope, both in terms of methodology and content. The cross-pollination between different fields of Byzantine Studies is also a major point of the volume. Archaeology and art history have pride of place; it is especially in archaeological papers that one can grasp the vital importance of the interaction with the so-called hard sciences and with new technologies for contemporary research. This relevance of science and technology for archaeology, however, also applies to, and have significant repercussions in, historical studies, where – for example – the study of climate change or the application of specific software to network studies are producing a major renewal of knowledge. In more traditional subject fields, like literary, political, and intellectual history, the contributions to the present volume offer some important reflections on the connection between Byzantium and other cultures and peoples through the intermediary of texts, stories, diplomacy, trade, and war.

The history of the development of Byzantine Studies is not only a part of historiography and philology, but it also constitutes a special chapter in European cultural history and thinking. The evaluation of Byzantium and the attitude towards this empire on the borders of Europe and Asia which had claimed to be the inheritor of the Roman Empire, has always been connected with a whole set of political, cultural and religious factors. With the exception of a rather short episode when Cyril and Methodius led a mission to Great Moravia, the Czech countries have never been under the direct influence of Byzantine civilisation, but have developed in the sphere of Western Latin culture. It is therefore understandable that modem historical and philological enquiries have also been directed towards the study of the Middle Ages in Western and Central Europe and that Byzantine studies started to develop relatively late, and have stayed on the periphery ofour research interests.

2022

The abstract of my report " Cilician Miniature and Byzantine Traditions of the 11th Century" is placed on p.173