1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 5-7 February 2021
1st ONLINE EDINBURGHBYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL5-7 February 2021
AIMS & SCOPEThe Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is the first of its kind as a wayto learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antiqueand Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature,history, archaeology, and material culture. The Festival is an onlineevent, allowing attendees from all over the world to join in. The aim isto hold it every two years in order to promote a wider understandingand awareness of Byzantine scholarship in a spirit of collegiality. It isalso intended to encourage future collaborations and networkingamong the various presenters and attendees, especially in thesestrange times of the coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully, it will alsoinspire similar events in other research fields in the future.The 1st Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival includes volumespublished in 2019 and 2020, and forthcoming books with an estimatedpublication date no later than June 2021. It features monographspublished in English, French, Georgian, German, Modern Greek,Italian, and Romanian.2
FORMAT & RECORDINGSince there is no precedent for such an online event in the field of LateAntique and Byzantine Studies, the current format is experimentaland it will hopefully be improved in the future using feedback fromattendees. Each session is intended to last 30 minutes. Allpresentations will be in English. Fellow scholars acting as chairs willprovide a short introduction of no more than 5 minutes for the authorand their book, which will be followed by the author’s presentation,lasting up to 10 minutes. This will leave time in the second part of thesession for a 15-minute Question and Answer session moderated bythe chair. Questions should be posted in the chat box of the onlineplatform.This event will be recorded for publication on the Festival’s website. Ifyou wish to contribute (whether in the form of chairs’ introductions,authors’ presentations or attendee questions), but do not want yourcontribution to appear in the published recording, please let us knowin advance by emailing petros.bouras-vallianatos@ed.ac.uk.TIME ZONEThe festival will take place in UK local time (GMT 00:00).3
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSI would like to thank my colleagues at the University of Edinburgh,and, in particular, Niels Gaul for encouraging me to proceed with myoriginal idea about organising the 1st Online Edinburgh ByzantineBook Festival. I am also grateful to the School of History, Classics andArchaeology at the University of Edinburgh for awarding a grant tocover the costs of our technology host, Nasser Alfalasi, to whom Iexpress my sincere thanks. Special thanks go to the editors at thevarious publishers for their support in this endeavour and for agreeingto provide the chairs with access to the books. And last but not wholeheartedly endorsed this initiative by presenting their recentlypublished books or agreeing to act as chairs.Petros Bouras-VallianatosEdinburgh11 January 20214
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Friday 5 February 2021UK Time (GMT 00:00)9:50 IntroductionPetros Bouras-Vallianatos, University of Edinburgh10:00 – 10:30Greek and Latin Letters in LateAntiquity10:30 – 11:00Literary Circles in ByzantineIconoclasmCambridge University Press, 2020Cambridge University Press, 2021Pauline Allen, University of Pretoria &Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University,SydneyChair: Floris Bernard, Ghent UniversityÓscar Prieto Domínguez, Universityof SalamancaChair: Niels Gaul, University ofEdinburgh11:00 – 11:30Le Livre des cérémonies11:40 – 12:10The Last Great War of AntiquityThe Christianisation of a Literary FormPatrons, Politics and SaintsConstantin VII PorphyrogénèteAssociation des Amis du Centre d’Histoire etCivilisation de Byzance, 2020†Gilbert Dagron, Académie desInscriptions et Belles-Lettres/Collège deFrance &Bernard Flusin, Paris-SorbonneUniversity (Paris IV)/EPHEwith the collaboration ofD. Feissel, CNRS, EPHEC. Zuckerman, EPHEM. Stavrou, Pantheon-SorbonneUniversity (Paris 1)R. Bondoux & J.-P. GréloisChair: Vincent Déroche, ParisSorbonne University/EPHE6Oxford University Press, 2021James Howard-Johnston, Universityof OxfordChair: Yannis Stouraitis, Universityof Edinburgh
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Friday 5 FebruarySPECIAL GUEST PRESENTATION: Graphic Novel12:10 – 12:40TheophanoA Byzantine talewww.byzantinetales.com, 2020Spyros Theocharis (author)Chrysa Sakel (illustrator)Chair: Przemysław Marciniak, University of Silesia in Katowice12:40 – 13:30Break13:30 – 14:00On Morals or Concerning Education14:00 – 14:30Warriors, Martyrs, and DervishesTheodore MetochitesMoving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in theLand of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)Harvard University Press, 2020BRILL, 2019Sophia Xenophontos, University ofGlasgowChair: Michele Trizio, University ofBari Aldo MoroBuket Kitapçı Bayrı, Koç University– Stavros Niarchos Foundation,Center for Late Antique andByzantine StudiesChair: Koray Durak, BoğaziçiUniversity7
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Friday 5 February14:30 – 15:00Από τη Λαμία στο Ζητούνι15:10 – 15:40The First Capital of the OttomanEmpireΑνασυνθέτοντας μια μικρή βυζαντινή πόλη(From Lamia to ZitouniReconstructing a Small Byzantine City)The Religious, Architectural, and SocialHistory of BursaGutenberg, 2020I.B. Tauris Bloomsbury, 2020Georgios Pallis, University of AthensChair: Claudia Sode, University ofCologneSuna Cagaptay, University ofCambridge and BahçeşehirUniversityChair: Tassos Papacostas, King’sCollege London15:40 – 16:10Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500Palgrave Macmillan, 2020Panos Sophoulis, University of AthensChair: Vlada Stanković, University of Belgrade16:10 – 16:40Break8
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Friday 5 February16:40 – 17:10(Re)using Ruins17:10 – 17:40Aqueducts and Urbanism in postRoman HispaniaPublic Building in the Cities of the LateAntique West, A.D. 300-600BRILL, 2019Gorgias Press, 2020Douglas R. Underwood, IndependentScholarChair: Lucy Grig, University ofEdinburghJavier Martínez Jiménez, Universityof CambridgeChair: Louise Blanke, University ofEdinburgh17:40 – 18:10The Bronze Horseman of Justinian inConstantinople18:10 – 18:40Eastern Medieval ArchitectureThe Building Traditions of Byzantium andNeighboring LandsThe Cross-Cultural Biography of aMediterranean MonumentCambridge University Press, 2021Oxford University Press, 2020Elena N. Boeck, DePaul UniversityChair: Brigitte Pitarakis, CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique,ParisRobert G. Ousterhout, University ofPennsylvaniaChair: Jim Crow, University ofEdinburgh9
Saturday 6 February 202110:00 – 10:30The Cross in the Visual Culture of LateAntique Egypt10:30 – 11:00Liturgy and the Emotions inByzantiumCompunction and HymnodyBRILL, 2020Cambridge University Press, 2020Gillian Spalding-Stracey, MacquarieUniversity, SydneyChair: Arietta Papaconstantinou,University of ReadingAndrew Mellas, St Andrew’sTheological College and University ofSydneyChair: Olivier Delouis, CentreNational de la RechercheScientifique, Paris11:00 – 11:30Between Ideals and Reality: Charityand the Letters of Barsanuphius andJohn of Gaza11:40 – 12:10Le décor de la Bible syriaque deParis (BnF syr. 341)et son rôle dans l’histoire du livre chrétienSCD Press, 2020Éditions Geuthner, 2020Hyung Guen Choi, Anyang UniversityChair: Paul McKechnie, MacquarieUniversity, SydneyFrançois Pacha Miran, ÉcolePratique des Hautes ÉtudesChair: Georgi Parpulov, University ofBirmingham10
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Saturday 6 February12:10 – 12:40Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity12:40 – 13:10Archeologia del cantiereprotobizantinoBetween Reading and SeeingCave, maestranze e committenti attraverso imarchi dei marmorariRoutledge, 2019Bononia University Press, 2019Sean V. Leatherbury, UniversityCollege DublinChair: Ida Toth, University of OxfordGiulia Marsili, University of BolognaChair: Efthymios Rizos, HellenicMinistry of Culture & Sports,Ephorate of Antiquities of Serres13:10 – 14:00 Break14:00 – 14:30Writer and Occasion in TwelfthCentury Byzantium14:30 – 15:00Innovation in Byzantine MedicineThe Authorial Voice of Constantine ManassesThe Writings of John Zacharias Aktouarios(c.1275-c.1330)Cambridge University Press, 2020Oxford University Press, 2020Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala University /Swedish Research Institute in IstanbulChair: Stavroula Constantinou,University of CyprusPetros Bouras-Vallianatos,University of EdinburghChair: Dionysios Stathakopoulos,University of Cyprus11
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Saturday 6 February15:00 – 15:30Manuel II Palaiologos (1350–1425)15:40 – 16:10Politics and Government inByzantiumA Byzantine Emperor in a Time of TumultThe Rise and Fall of the BureaucratsCambridge University Press, 2021I.B. Tauris Bloomsbury, 2020Siren Çelik, Marmara University,IstanbulChair: Nevra Necipoğlu, BoğaziçiUniversityJonathan Shea, Dumbarton OaksResearch Library andCollection/George WashingtonUniversityChair: Kostis Smyrlis, NationalHellenic Research Foundation,Athens16:10 – 16:40Les Grâces à AthènesÉloge d’un gouverneur byzantin par NikolaosKataphlôron16:40 – 17:10Die enkomiastische Dichtung desManuel PhilesForm und Funktion des literarischen Lobesin der frühen PalaiologenzeitWalter de Gruyter, 2020Walter de Gruyter, 2020Marina Loukaki, University of AthensChair: Michael Grünbart, University ofMünsterKrystina Kubina, Austrian Academyof SciencesChair: Stratis Papaioannou,University of Crete17:10 – 17:30 Break12
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Saturday 6 February17:30 – 18:30 (Joint session)The Byzantine HelleneThe Tale of Livistros and RodamneThe Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris andByzantium in the Thirteenth CenturyA Byzantine Love Romance of the 13thCenturyCambridge University Press, 2019Liverpool University Press, 2021Dimiter Angelov, Harvard UniversityChair: Panagiotis Agapitos, Universityof CyprusPanagiotis Agapitos, University ofCyprusChair: Dimiter Angelov, HarvardUniversity18:40 – 19:10The Anthropology of St GregoryPalamas19:10 – 19:40Gregory PalamasThe Image of God, the Spiritual Senses, and theHuman BodyThe Hesychast Controversy and the Debatewith IslamLiverpool University Press, 2020BREPOLS, 2020Alexandros Chouliaras, University ofAthensChair: Alessandra Bucossi, Ca' FoscariUniversity of Venice13Norman Russell, University ofOxfordChair: Alexis Torrance, University ofNotre Dame
Sunday 7 February 202110:00 – 10:30Byzantine Religious Law in MedievalItaly10:30 – 11:00The Ekphraseis in the ByzantineLiterature of the 12th CenturyOxford University Press, 2021Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021James Morton, The Chinese Universityof Hong KongChair: Daphne Penna, University ofGroningenIlias Taxidis, Aristotle University ofThessalonikiChair: Foteini Spingou, University ofEdinburgh11:00 – 11:30Imperial Visions of Late ByzantiumManuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple11:30 – 12:00Textile from Georgia(Headwear of the Georgians)Edinburgh University Press, 2020Georgian Art Palace, 2019Florin Leonte, University of OlomoucChair: Margaret Mullett, University ofEdinburghGeorge Kalandia, Georgian ArtPalace-Museum of Cultural HistoryChair: Ioanna Rapti, École Pratiquedes Hautes Études12:00 – 13:00 Break14
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Sunday 7 February13:00 – 13:30Hypatia13:30 – 14:00Eros in Neoplatonism and itsReception in Christian PhilosophyThe True StoryExploring Love in Plotinus, Proclus andDionysius the AreopagiteWalter de Gruyter, 2021Silvia Ronchey, Roma Tre UniversityChair: Peter Frankopan, University ofOxfordBloomsbury Academic, 2020Dimitrios A. Vasilakis, University ofAthens/University of ErfurtChair: Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Universityof Michigan14:00 – 14:30Medizinische Lehrwerke aus dem spätantiken AlexandriaDie "Tabulae Vindobonenses" und "Summaria Alexandrinorum" zu Galens "De sectis"Walter de Gruyter, 2019Oliver Overwien, Humboldt University of BerlinChair: Nadine Metzger, Friedrich–Alexander University Erlangen–Nürnberg14:30 – 15:00 Break15
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Sunday 7 February15:00 – 15:30O scurtă istorie a bibliotecilor bizantine(A brief history of the Byzantinelibraries)15:30 – 16:00The Image of God in the Theology ofGregory of NazianzusEditura Lumen, 2020Cambridge University Press, 2019Silviu-Constantin Nedelcu, RomanianAcademy LibraryChair: Dimitrios Skrekas, University ofOxfordGabrielle Thomas, Yale UniversityChair: Christos Simelidis, AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki16:00 – 16:30Children and Family in Late AntiqueEgyptian Monasticism16:30 – 17:00Simplicity and Humility in LateAntique Christian ThoughtElites and the Challenges of Apostolic LifeCambridge University Press, 2020Cambridge University Press, 2021Caroline T. Schroeder, University ofOklahomaChair: Béatrice Caseau, Paris-SorbonneUniversity (Paris IV)Jaclyn Maxwell, Ohio UniversityChair: Edward Watts, University ofCalifornia San Diego17:00 – 17:30 Break16
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021Sunday 7 February17:30 – 18:00Performing the Gospels in ByzantiumSight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy18:00 – 18:30Untersuchungen zur Iatromagie inder byzantinischen ZeitZur Tradierung gräkoägyptischer undspätantiker iatromagischer MotiveCambridge University Press, 2021Roland Betancourt, University ofCalifornia, IrvineChair: Claudia Rapp, University ofVienna/Austrian Academy of SciencesWalter de Gruyter, 2020Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann,Bavarian Academy of SciencesChair: Alain Touwaide, Institute forthe Preservation of MedicalTraditions, Washington, DC18:30 – 19:00Reason and Revelation in Byzantine AntiochThe Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-FadlUniversity of California Press, 2020Alexandre M. Roberts, University of Southern CaliforniaChair: Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, University of EdinburghEND OF FESTIVAL17
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021BOOK ABSTRACTSThe Tale of Livistros andRodamneA Byzantine Love Romance of the 13thCenturyPanagiotis Agapitos, University ofCyprusLiverpool University Press, 2021The volume offers the first fully scholarly translation into English of the Tale ofLivistros and Rodamne, a love romance written around the middle of 13th centuryat the imperial court of Nicaea, at the time when Constantinople was still underLatin dominion. With its approximately 4700 verses, Livistros and Rodamne isthe longest and most artfully composed of the surviving Byzantine vernacular loveromances. It was composed to be recited in front of an aristocratic audience by aneducated poet experienced in the Greek tradition of erotic fiction, yet at the sametime knowledgeable of the Medieval French and Persian romances of love andadventure. The poet has created a very modern narrative filled with attractiveepisodes, including the only scene of demonic incantation in Byzantine fiction. Thelanguage of the romance is of a high poetic quality, challenging the translator atevery step. Finally, Livistros and Rodamne is the only Byzantine romance thatconsistently constructs the Latin world of chivalry as an exotic setting, a type ofoccidentalism aiming to tame and to incorporate the Frankish Other in the socialnorms of the Byzantine Self after the Fall of Constantinople to the Latins in 1204.Greek and Latin Letters in LateAntiquityThe Christianisation of a Literary FormPauline Allen, University of Pretoria&Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University,SydneyCambridge University Press, 2020This is the first general book on Greek and Latin letter-writing in Late Antiquity(300–600 CE). Allen and Neil examine early Christian Greek and Latin literaryletters, their nature and function and the mechanics of their production anddissemination. They examine the exchange of Episcopal, monastic and imperialletters between men, and the gifts that accompanied them, and the rarerphenomenon of letter exchanges with imperial and aristocratic women. They also18
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021look at the transmission of letter-collections and what they can tell us aboutfriendships and other social networks between the powerful elites who were theliterary letter-writers of the fourth to sixth centuries. The volume gives a broadcontext to late-antique literary letter-writing in Greek and Latin in its variousmanifestations: political, ecclesiastical, practical and social. In the process, thedifferences between “pagan” and Christian letter-writing are shown to be not asgreat as has previously been supposed.The Byzantine HelleneThe Life of Emperor Theodore Laskarisand Byzantium in the ThirteenthCenturyDimiter Angelov, Harvard UniversityCambridge University Press, 2019This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor whoruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor after the fall ofConstantinople to the crusaders in 1204. Theodore Laskaris was a man of literarytalent and keen intellect. His action-filled life, youthful mentality, anxiety aboutcommunal identity (Anatolian, Roman, and Hellenic), ambitious reforms cut shortby an early death, and thoughts and feelings are all reconstructed on the basis ofhis rich and varied writings. His original philosophy, also explored here, led himto a critique of scholasticism in the West, a mathematically inspired theology, anda political vision of Hellenism. A personal biography, a ruler’s biography, and anintellectual biography, this highly illustrated book opens a vista onto the easternMediterranean, Anatolia, and the Balkans in the thirteenth century, as seen fromthe vantage point of a key political actor and commentator.Warriors, Martyrs, and DervishesMoving Frontiers, Shifting Identities inthe Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries)Buket Kitapçı Bayrı, Koç University –Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Centerfor Late Antique and ByzantineStudiesBRILL, 2019Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in theLand of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical andcultural change, which was triggered by the arrival of Turkish Muslim groups intothe territories of the Byzantine Empire at the end of the eleventh century, through19
1st ONLINE EDINBURGH BYZANTINE BOOK FESTIVAL 2021intersecting stories transmitted in Turkish Muslim warrior epics and dervishvitas, and late Byzantine martyria. It examines the Byzantines’ encounters withthe newcomers in a shared story- world, here called “land of Rome”, as well as itsperception, changing geopolitical and cultural frontiers, and in relation to thesechanges, the shifts in identity of the people inhabiting this space. The studyhighlights the complex relationship between the character of specific places andthe cultural identities of the people who inhabited them.Performing the Gospels inByzantiumSight, Sound, and Space in the DivineLiturgyRoland Betancourt, University ofCalifornia, IrvineCambridge University Press, 2021Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks athow illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusingon a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, thebook articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia andminiatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was readand simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This uniqueapproach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in themind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefullychanged and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specificacoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, thevolume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and arthistory to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with theenvironment of the Middle Byzantine church.The Bronze Horseman ofJustinia
The Byzantine Hellene The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century Cambridge University Press, 2019 Dimiter Angelov, Harvard University Chair: Panagiotis Agapitos, University of Cyprus The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century Liverpool University Press, 2021
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