Allgemein

Publikationsliste Agapitos

Books

Narrative Structure in the Byzantine Vernacular Romances: A Textual and Literary
Study of Kallimachos, Belthandros and Libistros [Miscellanea Byzantina Monacensia
34], Munich 1991.

P. A. Agapitos – O. L. Smith, The Study of Medieval Greek Romance: A Reassessment of Recent Work [Opuscula Graecolatina 33], Copenhagen 1992.

P. A. Agapitos – K. Hult – †O. L. Smith, Theodoros Metochites on Philosophical
Irony and Greek History: Miscellanea 8 and 93. Edited with introduction, translation
and notes, Gothenburg 1996.

Ἀφήγησις Λιβίστρου καὶ Pοδάμνης. Kριτικὴ ἔκδοση τῆς διασκευῆς «ἄλφα» [Bυζαντινὴ
καὶ Nεοελληνικὴ Bιβλιοθήκη 9], Athens 2006 [= The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne:
Critical Edition of Redaction ‘alpha’].

P. A. Agapitos – M. Hinterberger – E. Mitsi, Εἰκὼν καὶ Λόγος: Ἔξι βυζαντινὲς
περιγραφὲς ἔργων τέχνης. Εἰσαγωγικὸ δοκίμιο, μετάφραση καὶ σχολιασμός, Athens
2006 [= Image and Word: Six Byzantine Descriptions of Works of Art. Introductory
essay, translation, commentary].

Ἡ ἐρωτικὴ διήγηση στὰ μεσαιωνικὰ χρόνια: Περσία―Βυζάντιο―Φραγγία, Athens
2008 [= Tales of Love in Medieval Times: Persia, Byzantium, France].

The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne: A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century.
Translation and Introduction [Translated Texts for Byzantinists 10], Liverpool 2021.

Βυζαντινολογία καὶ Ναζισμός: Ὁ Φρὰντς Ντέλγκερ, ἡ Ὑπηρεσία Ρόζενμπεργκ, ὁ Ἄθως
καὶ ἡ Ἱστορία τῆς Βυζαντινῆς Φιλολογίας (1920-1958), Athens 2023. [Translated and
fully revised version with photographs of study no. 79 below.]

Edited Volumes

P. A. Agapitos – D. R. Reinsch (eds.), Der Roman im Byzanz der Komnenenzeit.
Referate des Internazionalen Symposiums an der Freien Universität Berlin (3. bis 6.
April 1998) [Meletemata. Beiträge zur Byzantinistik und Neugriechischen Philologie
8], Frankfurt a.M. 2000.

P. A. Agapitos – M. Pieris (eds.), «Τ’ ἀδόνιν κεῖνον ποὺ γλυκὰ θλιβᾶται»: Ἔκδοση
καὶ ἑρμηνεία τῆς ἑλληνικῆς δημώδους γραμματείας στὸ πέρασμα ἀπὸ τὸν Mεσαίωνα
στὴν Ἀναγέννηση (1400-1600). Πρακτικὰ τοῦ 4ου Διεθνοῦς Συνεδρίου Neograeca
Medii Aevi, Herakleion 2002 [= Edition and interpretation of Greek vernacular
literature from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (1400-1600). Acts of the 4th
International Conference ‘Neograeca Medii Aevi’].

P. Odorico – P. A. Agapitos (eds.), Pour une «nouvelle» histoire de la littérature
byzantine: problèmes, méthodes, approches, propositions. HERMENEIA. Actes du
colloque international philologique (Nicosie, mai 2000) [Dossiers Byzantins 1], Paris
2002.

P. Odorico – P. A. Agapitos (eds.), La vie des saints à Byzance: genre littéraire ou
biographie historique? HERMENEIA. Actes du deuxiéme colloque international
philologique (Paris, juin 2002) [Dossiers Byzantins 4], Paris 2004.

P. Odorico – P. A. Agapitos – M. Hinterberger (eds.), L’écriture de la memoire: la
littérarité de l’historiographie. HERMENEIA. Actes du troisiéme colloque
international philologique (Nicosie, mai 2004) [Dossiers Byzantins 7], Paris 2006.

P. Odorico – P. A. Agapitos – M. Hinterberger (eds.), «Doux remède...»: Poésie et
poétique à Byzance. HERMENEIA. Actes du quatriéme colloque international
philologique (Nicosie, mai 2004) [Dossiers Byzantins 7], Paris 2009.

P. A. Agapitos – L. B. Mortensen (eds.), Medieval Narratives between History and
Fiction: From the Center to the Periphery of Europe (c. 1100-1400), Copenhagen
2012.

Papers in Journals, Conference Acts, and Collective Volumes; Entries in Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

A Post-Byzantine Musical Anthology: MS Greek 21 in the Houghton Library,
Harvard Library Bulletin 35 (1987 [appeared in 1989]) 150–164.

The ‘Rhetorical’ Legitimation of Basileios I in the Vita Basilii, in: Abstracts of
Papers (15th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Univ. of Massachussets at
Amherst), Amherst 1989, pp. 11–12.

Michael Italikos. Klage auf den Tod seines Rebhuhns, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 82
(1989) 59–68.

Ἡ εἰκόνα τοῦ αὐτοκράτορα Bασιλείου A΄ στὴ φιλομακεδονικὴ γραμματεία 867–959,
Hellenika 40 (1989) 285-322 [= The image of Emperor Basil I in Pro-Macedonian
literature 867-959].

The Erotic Bath in the Byzantine Vernacular Romance Kallimachos and
Chrysorrhoe, Classica et Medievalia 41 (1990) 257–273.

Textkritisches zu Kallimachos und Chrysorrhoe, Hellenika 41 (1990) 33–41.

Lemmata “Centaur”, “Herakles”, “Oppianos”, “Orpheus”, “Ovid”, “Phoenix”,
“Proteus”, “Satyr”, “Vergil”, in: A. P. Kazhdan (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of
Byzantium, New York-Oxford 1991.

E. Mitsi – P. A. Agapitos, Eἰκὼν καὶ λόγος: ἡ περιγραφὴ ἔργων τέχνης στὴ
βυζαντινὴ γραμματεία, Annales d’Esthétique 29-30 (1990/91) 109–126 [= Image
and Word: the description of works of art in Byzantine literature].

Libistros und Rhodamne: Vorläufiges zu einer kritischen Ausgabe der Version A,
Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 42 (1992) 191–208.

Ἡ ἔμμεση παράδοση τοῦ δημώδους μυθιστορήματος Λίβιστρος καὶ Pοδάμνη,
Hellenika 42 (1991/92) 61–74 [= The indirect transmission of the vernacular romance
of Livistros and Rhodamne].

Byzantine Literature and Greek Philologists in the Nineteenth Century, Classica et
Medievalia 43 (1992) 231–260.

Ἡ χρονολογικὴ ἀκολουθία τῶν μυθιστορημάτων Kαλλίμαχος, Bέλθανδρος καὶ
Λίβιστρος [= The chronological sequence of the romances Kallimachos, Velthandros
and Livistros], in: N. M. Panagiotakis (ed.), Ἀρχὲς τῆς νεοελληνικῆς λογοτεχνίας.
Πρακτικa τοῦ δευτέρου διεθνοῦς συνεδρίου Neograeca Medii Aevi (Bενετία 1991),
Venice 1993, vol. II, pp. 197–234.

Ἕνα ἀκόμη σπάραγμα τοῦ μυθιστορήματος Λίβιστρος καὶ Pοδάμνη: Ὁ βατικανὸς
κώδικας Barb. gr. 172, Hellenika 43 (1993) 337–359 [= One further fragment of
Livistros and Rodamne: the Vatican manuscript Barb. gr. 172].

P. A. Agapitos – O. L. Smith, Scribes and Manuscripts of Byzantine Vernacular
Romances: Palaeographical Facts and Editorial Implications, Hellenika 44 (1994) 61–
80.

Byzantium in the Poetry of Kostis Palamas and C. P. Cavafy, Kάμπος. Cambridge
Papers in Modern Greek 2 (1994) 1–20.

Tοῦ ἔρωτα καὶ τῶν πικρῶν βασάνων: Mιὰ διακειμενικὴ ἀνάγνωση τοῦ τρίπτυχου
ποιήματος «δός μου ὁρισμὸν» τοῦ Mιχάλη Ἐφταγωνίτη, Comparaison 7 (1996) 97–
117 [= ‘Of love and bitter torment’: An intertextual reading of the triptych poem
“give me a command” by Michalis Eftagonitis].

Ἡ ἀφηγηματικὴ σημασία τῆς ἀνταλλαγῆς ἐπιστολῶν καὶ τραγουδιῶν στὸ
μυθιστόρημα Λίβιστρος καὶ Pοδάμνη, Thesaurismata 26 (1996) 25–42 [= The
narrative function of the exchange of letters and songs in Livistros and Rodamne].

Πρὸς μιὰ κριτικὴ ἔκδοση τοῦ μυθιστορήματος Λίβιστρος καὶ Pοδάμνη: Προβλήματα
μεθόδου [= Towards a critical edition of Livistros and Rodamne: Issues of method],
in: J. M. Egea – A. Javier (eds.), Prosa y Verso en Griego Medieval. Rapports of the
International Congress «Neograeca Medii Aevi III» (Vitoria 1994), Amsterdam 1996,
pp. 1–16.

Kaiser Johannes VII. Palaiologos als Addressat einer Monodie des Theodoros
Potamios, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 90 (1997) 1–7.

Parisinus Coislinianus 287. Περιγραφὴ τοῦ χειρογράφου, in: Nεοφύτου Πρεσβυτέρου
Mοναχοῦ καὶ Ἐγκλείστου (as below no. 113), pp. xxiii–xxviii.

Teachers, Pupils and Imperial Power in Eleventh-century Byzantium, in: N.
Livingstone – Y. L. Too (eds.), Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics of Classical
Learning [Ideas in Context 50], Cambridge 1998, pp. 170–191.

Narrative, Rhetoric and ‘Drama’ Rediscovered: Scholars and Poets in Byzantium
Interpret Heliodorus, in: R. Hunter (ed.), Studies in Heliodorus [Cambridge
Philological Society. Supplementary Volume 21], Cambridge 1998, pp. 125–156.

Ὁ λογοτεχνικὸς θάνατος τῶν ἐχθρῶν στὴν «αὐτοβιογραφία» τοῦ Nικηφόρου
Bλεμμύδη, Hellenika 48 (1998) 29–46 [= The literary death of enemies in the
‘autobiography’ of Nikephoros Blemmydes].

SO Debate “Quellenforschung and/or Literary Criticism. Narrative Structures in
Byzantine Historical Writings”: A Comment, Symbolae Osloensis 73 (1998) 24–29.

Metamorphoseon permulti libri: Byzantine Literature Translated into Modern Greek,
in: P. Magdalino – D. Ricks (eds.), Byzantium and the Modern Greek Identity [Center
for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London. Publications 4], London 1998, pp. 63–
74.

Mischung der Gattungen und Überschreitung der Gesetze: Die Grabrede des
Eustathios von Thessalonike auf Nikolaos Hagiotheodorites, Jahrbuch der
Österreichischen Byzantinistik 48 (1998) 119–146.

Seneca’s Thyestes and the Poetics of Multiple Transgression, Hellenika 48 (1998)
231–253.

Dreams and the Spatial Aesthetics of Narrative Presentation in Livistros and
Rhodamne, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 53 (1999) 111–147.

Ἱερώνυμος Tραγωδιστὴς ὁ Kύπριος: ἕνας μουσικὸς καὶ γραφέας τῆς ὅψιμης
ἀναγέννησης [= Hieronymos Tragodistes the Cypriot: a musician and scribe of the
Late Renaissance], in: N. Oikonomides (ed.), Ἡ ἑλληνικὴ γραφὴ κατὰ τοὺς δέκατο
πέμπτο καὶ δέκατο ἕκτο αἰῶνες [Ἐθνικὸ Ἵδρυμα Ἐρευνῶν. Ἰνστιτοῦτο Bυζαντινῶν
Ἐρευνῶν. Διεθνῆ Συμπόσια 7], Athens 2000, pp. 283–300.

Der Roman der Komnenenzeit. Stand der Forschung und weitere Perspektiven, in:
Agapitos–Reinsch, Der Roman im Byzanz (as above nr. 8), pp. 1–18.

Poets and Painters: Theodoros Prodromos’ Dedicatory Verses of his Novel to an
Anonymous Caesar, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 50 (2000) 173–185.

Ἔκδοση καὶ ἑρμηνεία τῶν κειμένων: σκέψεις γιὰ τὴ δυναμικὴ διαπλοκὴ τῶν
μεθόδων [= Editing and intepreting texts: thoughts on a dynamic intertwining of
methods], in: H. Eideneier – U. Moennig – N. Toufexis (eds.), Θεωρία καὶ πράξη τῶν
ἐκδόσεων τῆς ὑστεροβυζαντινῆς, ἀναγεννησιακῆς καὶ μεταβυζαντινῆς δημώδους
γραμματείας. Πρακτικὰ τοῦ διεθνοῦς συμποσίου ἐργασίας Neograeca Medii Aevi IVa
(Ἰανουάριος 1999, Ἀμβοῦργο), Herakleion 2000, pp. 93–99.

Ἡ θέση τῆς αἰσθητικῆς ἀποτίμησης σὲ μιὰ «νέα» ἱστορία τῆς βυζαντινῆς λογοτεχνίας
[= The place of aesthetic appreciation in a “new” history of Byzantine literature], in:
Odorico–Agapitos, Pour une «nouvelle» histoire (as above no. 10), pp. 185–232.

Πρὸς μιὰ κριτικὴ ἔκδοση τῶν ἐπιταφίων λόγων τοῦ Mιχαὴλ Ψελλοῦ: ἡ μονωδία “Eἰς
τὸν τοῦ ἀκτουαρίου Ἰωάννου άδελφόν” (OrFun. 16) [= Towards a critical edition of
Michael Psellos’ funeral orations: the monody “On the brother of aktouarios John
(OrFun. 16)], in: Λόγια καὶ δημώδης γραμματεία τοῦ Ἑλληνικοῦ Mεσαίωνα. Άφιέρωμα
στὸν Eὔδοξο Θ. Tσολάκη. Πρακτικὰ τῆς Θ΄ Ἐπιστημονικῆς Συνάντησης τοῦ Tομέα
M.N.E.Σ. τοῦ Ἀριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης (Mάϊος 2000), Thessaloniki
2002, pp. 139–160.

Ancient Models and Novel Mixtures: The Concept of Genre in Byzantine Funerary
Literature from Patriarch Photios to Eustathios of Thessalonike, in: G. Nagy – A.
Stavrakopoulou (eds.), Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays, New York-London
2003, pp. 5–23.

Mortuary Typology in the Lives of Saints: Michael the Synkellos and Stephen the
Younger, in: Odorico–Agapitos, La vie des saints (as above no. 11), pp. 103–135.

Ἀπὸ τὸ “δρᾶμα” τοῦ Ἔρωτα στὸ “ἀφήγημαν” τῆς Ἀγάπης: τὸ ἐρωτικὸ μυθιστόρημα
στὸ Bυζάντιο (11ος-14ος αἰώνας) [= From the “drama” of Eros to the “tale” of Love:
the romance of love in Byzantium (11th-14th centuries), in: Christina G. Angelidi
(ed.), Tὸ Bυζάντιο ὥριμο γιὰ ἀλλαγές: Ἐπιλογές, εὐαισθησίες καὶ τρόποι ἔκφρασης ἀπὸ
τὸν ἑνδέκατο στὸν δέκατο πέμπτο αἰώνα [Ἐθνικὀ Ἵδρυμα Ἐρευνῶν. Ἰνστιτοῦτο
Bυζαντινῶν Ἐρευνῶν: Διεθνῆ Συμπόσια 13], Athens 2004, pp. 53–72.

Ἀπὸ τὴν Περσία στὴν Προβηγγία: ἐρωτικὲς διηγήσεις στὸ ὕστερο Bυζάντιο [= From
Persia to the Provence: tales of love in late Byzantium], in: E. Grammatikopoulou
(ed.), Tὸ Bυζάντιο καὶ οἱ ἀπαρχὲς τῆς Eὐρώπης [Ἐθνικὸ Ἵδρυμα Ἐρευνῶν.
Ἐπιστήμης Kοινωνία 34], Athens 2004, pp. 119–153.

Zwischen Grauen und Wonne: Das Bad in der byzantinischen Literatur, Jahrbuch der
Österreichischen Byzantinistik 54 (2004) 19–37.

Genre, Structure and Poetics in the Byzantine Vernacular Romances of Love,
Symbolae Osloenses 79 (2004) 7–54 and 82–101 (on pp. 54–82 comments by C.
Cupane, E. Jeffreys, M. Hinterberger, M. Lauxtermann, U. Moennig, I. Nilsson, P.
Odorico and S. Papaioannou).

Writing, Reading and Reciting (in) Byzantine Erotic Fiction, in: B. Mondrain (ed.),
Lire et écrire à Byzance [Centre de recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance.
Monographies 19], Paris 2006, pp. 125–176.

Blemmydes–Laskaris–Philes, in: M. Hinterberger – E. Schiffer (eds.), Byzantin-ische
Sprachkunst. Studien zur byzantinischen Literatur gewidmet Wolfram Hörandner zum
65. Geburtstag [Byzantinisches Archiv 20], Berlin-New York 2007, pp. 1–19 (and
Plates I–II).

Literary Criticism, in: E. Jeffreys – J. Haldon – R. Cormack (eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of Byzantine Studies, Oxford 2008, pp. 77–86.

Public and Private Death in Psellos: Maria Skleraina and Styliane Psellaina,
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 101 (2008) 555–607.

From Persia to the Provence: Tales of Love in Byzantium and Beyond, Acme: Annali
della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università degli Studi di Milano 63 (2010)
153–169 [short version of no. 6].

In Rhomaian, Frankish and Persian Lands: Fiction and Fictionality in Byzantium and
Beyond, in: Agapitos–Mortensen (as above no. 13), pp. 235–367.

The ‘Court of Amorous Dominion’ and the ‘Gate of Love’: Rituals of Empire in a
Byzantine Romance of the 13th Century, in: A. Beihammer – S. Constantinou – M.
Parani (eds.), Royal Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the The Medieval
Mediterranean: Comparative Perspectives [The Medieval Mediterranean 91] Leiden
2013, pp. 389–416.

Grammar, Genre and Patronage in the Twelfth Century: A Scientific Paradigm and its
Implications, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014) 1–22.

Anna Komnene and the Politics of Schedographic Training and Colloquial Discourse,
Nea Rhome 10 (2013) [2014] 89–107.

Karl Krumbacher and the History of Byzantine Literature, Byzantinische Zeitschrift
108 (2015) 1–52.

Contesting Conceptual Boundaries: Byzantine Literature and its History, Interfaces—
Medieval European Literatures 1 (2015) 62–91.

Learning to Read and Write a Schedos: The Dictionary of Par. gr. 400, in P. Odorico -
S. Efthymiadis - I. D. Polemis (eds.), Vers un poètique à Byzance: Mélanges offerts à
Vassilis Katsaros [Dossiers Byzantins 16], Paris 2015, pp. 11–24.

New Genres in the Twelfth Century: The schedourgia of Theodore Prodromos,
Medioevo Greco 15 (2015) 1–41.

Late Antique or Early Byzantine? The Shifting Beginnings of Byzantine Literature,
Istituto Lombardo–Accademia di Scienze e Lettere. Rendiconti: Classe di Lettere e
Scienze Morali e Storiche 146 (2012 [2015]) 3–38.

Literary Haute Cuisine and its Dangers: Eustathios of Thessalonike on Schedography
and Everyday Language, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 69 (2015) 225–241.

Bloody Metalanguage? Crime Fiction in Greece, 1991–2011, in: B. Sagaster - M.
Strohmaier - S. Guth (eds.), Crime Fiction in and around the Eastern Mediterranean
[Mîzân: Studien zur Literatur in der islamischen Welt 23], Wiesbaden 2016, pp. 93–
102.

‘Words Filled with Tears’: Amorous Discourse in the Palaiologan Romances, in: M.
Alexiou – D. Cairns (eds.), Greek Tears and Laughter: Late Antiquity, Byzantium and
Beyond [Edinburgh Leventis Classical Studies, 8], Edinburgh 2017, pp. 353–374.

John Tzetzes and the Blemish Examiners: A Byzantine Teacher on Schedography,
Everyday Language and Writerly Disposition, Medioevo Greco 17 (2017) 1–57.

Dangerous Literary Liaisons: Byzantium and Modern Hellenism, Byzantina 35
(2017) 33–126.

P. A. Agapitos – D. Angelov, Six Essays by Theodore II Laskaris in Vindobonensis
gr. 321: Edition, Translation, Analysis, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
68 (2018) 39–75.

The Word as Animated Image: Inscribed Texts in the Frescoes of the Church of the
Virgin Mary at Laghouderá, Cyprus (AD 1192), in: A. Papageorghiou – C. Bakirtzes
– C. Hadjichristodoulou (eds.), The Church of the Panagia tou Arakos, Nicosia 2018,
pp. 89–96.

The Bookseller’s Parrot: A Fictional Afterword, in: A. Goldwyn – I. Nilsson (eds.), A
Critical Guide to Medieval Greek Romance, Cambridge 2019, pp. 321–339.

Vom Aktualisierungsversuch zum kommunikativen Code: Johannes Tzetzes und der
Epilog seiner Theogonie für die sebastokratorissa Eirene, in: A. Külzer (ed.), Herbert
Hunger und die Wiener Schule der Byzantinistik: Rückblick und Ausblick, Vienna-Novisad 2019, pp. 271–290.

Franz Dölger and the Hieratic Model of Byzantine Literature, Byzantinische
Zeitschrift 112 (2019) 707–780.

A. Andreou – P. A. Agapitos, Of Masters and Servants: Hybrid Power in Theodore
Laskaris’ Response to Mouzalon and in the Tale of Livistros and Rodamne,
Interfaces—Journal of Medieval European Literatures 6 (2019) 96–129.

Vom Dokument zum literarischen Werk: Philologisch-literarisches zur neuen
Ausgabe der Akten des Nicaenum II von Erich Lamberz, in: W. Brandes – A. HasseUngeheuer – H. Leppin (eds.), Konzilien und Kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und
frühem Mittelalter: Aspekte konziliarer Entscheidungsfindung [Forschungen zur
byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte, N.F. 2], Boston-Berlin 2020, pp. 263–278.

The Insignificance of 1204 and 1453 for the History of Byzantine Literature,
Medioevo Greco 20 (2020) 1–56.

Literature and Education in Nicaea and its Legacy: An Interpretive Synthesis,
Medioevo Greco 21 (2021) 1–37.

Visually Demolished and Textually Reconstructed: Performing the Middle Ages in
Contemporary Crime Fiction, in: L. James – O. Nicholson – R. Scott (eds.), After the
Text: Byzantine Enquiries in Honour of Margaret Mullett [Birmingham Byzantine
and Ottoman Studies, 32], London 2021, pp. 41–55.

Greek, in: M. Chinka – C. Young (eds.), Literary Beginnings in the European Middle
Ages, Cambridge 2022, pp. 255–275.

The Politics and Practices of Commentary in Komnenian Byzantium, in: B. van den
Berg – D. Manolova – P. Marciniak (eds), Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek
Texts: 12th – 15th Centuries, Cambridge 2022, pp. 41–60.

‘Middle-Class’ Ideology of Education and Language, and the ‘Bookish’ Identity of
John Tzetzes, in: I. Stouraitis (ed.), Ideologies and Identities in the Medieval East
Roman World [Edinburgh Byzantine Studies, 2], Edinburgh 2022, 146–163.

Afterword: Forging Textual Realities, or How to Write a ‘Byzantine Mystery Story’,
in: M. Kulhankova – P. Marciniak (eds.), Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The
Modern reception of the Byzantine Empire, London–New York 2023, 264–271.

The Periodization of Byzantine Literature: From a Historical to a Literary Model, in:
A. Riehle – I. Grimm-Stadelmann (eds.), Anekdota Byzantina. Studies for Albrecht
Berger on his 65th Birthday, Berlin–Boston 2023, 1–20.

‘These Devices are the Writer’s Own Technique’: Eustathios of Thessalonike and the
Redefinition of Rhetorical Genres, in: L. Silvano – A. M. Taragna – P. Varalda (eds.),
Studies in Honour of Enrico Maltese, Ghent 2023, 63–97.

“The Force of Discourses:” Literary Production in the Komnenian Era, in: B. van den
Berg – N. Zagklas (eds.), Byzantine Poetry in the Long Twelfth Century, Cambridge
— forthcoming.

The Poetics of Exoticism: The ‘Greek’ Cligès and the ‘Latin’ Livistros (in
preparation).

Byzantine Literature Within a Medieval Eurasian Literary Supersystem: Amorous
Tales and the Practice of Narrative Fiction (in preparation).

Authorial Self-portraits in Komnenian Byzantium: Neophytos the Recluse and his
Catechetichal Visions (in preparation).

Bookreviews

Gudrun Engberg, Prophetologium. Pars altera: Lectiones anni immobilis. Fasciculus
primus textum continens. Fasciculus alter apparatum criticum continens [Monumenta
Musicae Byzantinae. Lectionaria I.2.1–2], Copenhagen 1980–1981, in: Byzantinische
Zeitschrift 77 (1984) 53–4.

The Hagiopolites. A Byzantine Treatise on Musical Theory. Preliminary edition by J.
Raasted [Université de Copenhague. Cahiers de l’institut du moyen-âge grec et latin
45], Copenhagen 1983, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 77 (1984) 299–300.

Diane Touliatos-Banker, The Byzantine Amomos Chant of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries [Ἀνάλεκτα Bλατάδων 46], Thessaloniki 1984, in: Byzantinische
Zeitschrift 80 (1987) 384–387.

Diane Touliatos-Banker, The Byzantine Amomos Chant of the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Centuries [Ἀνάλεκτα Bλατάδων 46], Thessaloniki 1984, in: Byzantinische
Zeitschrift 80 (1987) 384–387.

Gabriel Hieromonachos. Abhandlung über den Kirchengesang. Hrsg. von C. Hannick
und Gerda Wolfram [Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae. Corpus scriptorum de re
musica 1], Vienna 1985, and The Treatise of Manuel Chrysaphes the Lampadarios.
Edited by D. E. Conomos [Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae. Corpus scriptorum de re
musica 2], Vienna 1985, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 82 (1989) 272–276.

A. Sideras, 25 unedierte byzantinische Grabreden [Kλασσικὰ Γράμματα 5],
Thessaloniki 1991, in: Hellenika 42 (1991/92) 204–209.

A. Angelou, Manuel Palaiologos. Dialogue with the Empress-Mother on Marriage.
Introduction, text and translation [Byzantina Vindobonensia 19], Vienna 1991, in:
Hellenika 42 (1991/92) 407–416.

Theodori Prodromi de Rhodanthes et Dosiclis amoribus libri IX. Edidit Miroslaus
Marcovich, Stutgardiae et Lipsiae 1992, in: Hellenika 43 (1993) 229–236.

A. Korakidis, Ἰωάσαφ Ἐφέσου (†1437) (Ἰωάννης Bλαδύντερος). Bίος-ἔργαδιδασκαλία, Athens 1992, in: Hellenika 43 (1993) 238–239.

Th. D. Papanghelis, Ἡ ποιητικὴ τῶν Pωμαίων «Nεωτέρων». Προϋποθέσεις καὶ
προεκτάσεις, Athens 1994, in: Hellenika 45 (1995) 173–181.

Michaelis Pselli orationes hagiographicae. Edidit Elizabeth A. Fisher, Stutgardiae et
Lipsiae 1994, and Michaelis Pselli orationes forenses et acta. Edidit George T.
Dennis, Stutgardiae et Lipsiae 1994, in: Hellenika 45 (1995) 387–393.

A. Sideras, Die byzantinische Grabreden: Prosopographie, Datierung, Überlieferung. 142 Epitaphien und Monodien aus dem byzantinischen Jahrtausend
[Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 19], Wien 1994, in: Hellenika 46 (1996) 195–204.

Margaret Mullett, Theophylact of Ochrid. Reading the Letters of a Byzantine
Archbishop [Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs 2], Aldershot 1997,
in: History 84 (1999) 130–131.

M. D. Lauxtermann, The Spring of Rhythm. An Essay on the Political Verse and
Other Byzantine Metres [Byzantina Vindobonensia 22], Vienna 1999, in:
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 94 (2001) 320–322.

M. Hinterberger, Autobiographische Traditionen in Byzanz. [Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 22], Vienna 1999, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 94 (2001) 310–312.

A. Littlewood – H. Maguire – J. Wolschke-Bulmahn (eds.), Byzantine Garden
Culture, Washington, D.C. 2002, in: Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik
54 (2004) 263–265.

N. Malliaras, Βυζαντινὰ μουσικὰ ὄργανα, Athens 2007, in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift
101 (2008) 827–830.

Four Byzantine Novels: Theodore Prodromos, Rhodanthe and Dosikles; Eumathios
Makrembolites, Hysmine and Hysminias; Constantine Manasses, Aristandros and
Kallithea; Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles. Translated with introductions
and notes by Elizabeth Jeffreys. Translated Texts for Byzantinists, 1. Liverpool 2012,
in: Byzantinische Zeitschrift 106 (2013) 204–207.

C. Cupane – B. Krönung (eds.), Fictional Storytelling in the Medieval Eastern
Mediterranean and Beyond [Brill’s Companions to the Byzantine World, 1]. Leiden-Boston 2016, in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 110 (2017) 211–217.

F. Nousia, Byzantine Textbooks of the Palaeologan Period [Studi e Testi 505], Città
del Vaticano: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana 2016, in Medioevo Greco 18 (2018)
407–409.

Editorial Work

M. Angold, Ἡ βυζαντινὴ αὐτοκρατορία 1025-1204: Mιὰ πολιτικὴ ἱστορία.
Mετάφραση E. Kαργιανιώτη, ἐπιστημονικἠ ἐπιμέλεια Π. A. Ἀγαπητός, Athens 1997.

Nεοφύτου Πρεσβυτέρου Mοναχοῦ καὶ Ἐγκλείστου: Περὶ τῶν Xριστοῦ ἐντολῶν πρὸς τὸν
ἴδιον ἀδελφὸν καὶ μοναχὸν Ἰωάννην. Ἐκδίδει †Παῦλος (Bενέδικτος) Ἐγγλεζάκης.
Ἐπιμέλεια Π. A. Ἀγαπητὸς καὶ Γ. A Xριστοδούλου, Athens 1998.

D. Obolensky, Ἕξι βυζαντινὲς προσωπογραφίες. Mετάφραση K. Πούγιουρου καὶ A.
Nικολάου-Kονναρῆ, ἐπιστημονικὴ ἐπιμέλεια Π. A. Ἀγαπητός, Athens 1998.

The Byzantine Achilleid: The Naples Version. Introduction, critical edition and
commentary by Ole L. Smith†. Edited and prepared for publication by P. A. Agapitos
and K. Hult [Wiener Byzantinistische Studien 21], Vienna 1999.

Publications in Literary Journals

Ἔρως, θάνατος καὶ τέχνη: ἕνα ρητορικὸ τρίπτυχο τοῦ δωδέκατου αἰώνα, Semeion
[Nicosia] 1 (1992) 7–22 [= Eros, death and art: a rhetorical triptych from the twelfth
century].

Σκοτεινὸς κόσμος καὶ ὑγρὸς τρόμος: δώδεκα ποιήματα τῶν Bhartrihari καὶ Abbas ibn
al-Ahnaf, Enteukterion [Thessaloniki] 27 (Summer 1994) 48–50 [= Dark world and
fluid fear: twelve poems by Bhartrihari and Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf].

Ἡ «Bυζαντινὴ Pαψωδία» τοῦ Kωστῆ Παλαμᾶ, Semeion [Nicosia] 2 (1993/94) 93–
102 [= Kostis Palamas’ Byzantine Rhapsody].

Nικηφόρος Bλεμμύδης, Διήγησις μερική: μιὰ ἀποσπασματικὴ αὐτοβιογραφία
(εἰσαγωγή - μετάφραση: Π. Α. Ἀγαπητός), Enteukterion [Thessaloniki] 28-29
(Autumn-Winter 1994) 52–61 [= Nikephoros Blemmydes, Partial Account: a
fragmentary autobiography, translated by P.A.A.].

Ἱερώνυμος Tραγωδιστής: ἕνας Kύπριος μουσικὸς τῆς ὅψιμης ἀναγέννησης, Semeion
[Nicosia] 4 (1996) 71–82 [= Hieronymos Tragodistes: a Cypriot musician of the Late
Renaissance].

La mort à Byzance: images fragmentaires d’un monde inconnu, Europe [Paris] 822
(October 1997) 47–59.

Ὁ θάνατος στὸ Bυζάντιο: ἀποσπασματικὲς εἰκόνες ἑνὸς ἄγνωστου κόσμου, Nea
Hestia [Athens] 1737 (September 2001) 269–286 [Revised and annotated version of
nr. 121].

Bυζάντιο, Ἄραβες καὶ Kύπρος στὰ 910–913, Hylandron [Nicosia] 1 (November
2001) 123–131 [= Byzantium, the Arabs and Cyprus in 910–913].

Literary Publications 

Τὸ ἐβένινο λαοῦτο. Μιὰ βυζαντινὴ ἱστορία μυστηρίου, Athens 2003 [= The Ebony
Lute. A Byzantine mystery novel; French translation, Toulouse 2013; Czech
translation 2017].

Ὁ χάλκινος ὀφθαλμός. Μιὰ βυζαντινὴ ἱστορία μυστηρίου, Athens 2006 [= The Copper
Eye. A Byzantine mystery novel French translation, Toulouse 2021; Czech translation
2018].

Ἡ νύχτα τῶν φιλοσόφων, in: A. Chrysostomides (ed.), Ἑλληνικὰ ἐγκλήματα 2, Athens
2008, pp. 285–325 [‘The night of the philosophers’ – Greek Crimes 2, a short story
collection].

Μέδουσα ἀπὸ σμάλτο. Μιὰ βυζαντινὴ ἱστορία μυστηρίου, Athens 2009 [= Enamel
Medusa. A Byzantine mystery novel; Czech translation 2019].

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Processes of negotiation in stone: Building activity as a reflection of social relations in Middle Byzantine Constantinople (6th-10th cent.)

Researcher: Dr. Max Ritter

Building is a form of utterance of power, as one has to marshal the resources and builders necessary, and the completed building is a statement of credibility and fulfilled ambitions of its patron.

In Constantinople, imperial and elite agency met in the field of building activity. For this project, Constantinople is much more than a city for a case study. In fact, the city itself as the centre of the empire, gave rise to a distinctive building culture. In the period I am about to study, Constantinople was the most populous city on the continent, a true metropolis comparable with any modern environment in size and complexity. Constantinople followed no cohesive plot of development in its history, as there was no unitary trajectory, yet it was the unchallenged capital across the four centuries and was, as the focal point of power in a centralised empire, the place of negotiation for the elites.

During the eventful centuries from the sixth to the tenth, Constantinople was thoroughly transformed in all its aspects, from its inner topography and visual outlook, from its social and cultural fabric to its identity. My first aim is to understand how members of the power and status elites made use of Constantinople with its spaces and traditions for their political agendas. These elite groups, and the emperors above and as a part of them, redefined, shaped and appropriated urban spaces. My second mission is to examine the building policy and building culture of the elites as a reflection of their exercise of power. My premise is that the organisation and the shaping of urban spaces in Constantinople can be explored through the prism of political relations.

In being involved in the construction and embellishment of buildings across the city, the members of the elites followed the example of the emperors and their kin. To date, however, there is no study on the building activity initiated by the Byzantine emperors and the imperial apparatus as such, on the various levels including the role of the patron, construction financier, building contractor or legislator in the building sector. It is, however, evident that the emperors treated the image of Constantinople as a tool for conveying power and legitimizing their might, as building was considered a classical imperial virtue.

I assume that the building activities of the elites, most often associated with the imperial administration, exerted a great impact on the various parts of the city, and entailed negotiations between the elite and the emperor. These process of negotiation took place, and can be localised in the various neighbourhoods and suburbs of Constantinople. It is apparent that some building initiatives seem to have more vigorously targeted the people living in a given neighbourhood. Questions of spatial hierarchies and nodes are therefore tackled by an investigation and reconstruction of the evolving topography of imperial and elite patronage, based on Byzantine texts and material remains.

My work is of course grounded in the spatial turn, so I investigate agency over and through space, but I also examine the social embeddedness of the act of building and its processional character. This project closes a gap in scholarship between the fields of architecture, liturgical and topographical studies by studying processes of negotiation between imperial and elite agencies in the field of building activity in the Byzantine capital.

This project will hopefully have an impact on scholarship dealing with the patronage by a ruler in Byzantium and beyond. It is an ideal moment indeed for such a study as in recent years there has been many topological studies for Constantinople – even if most often only on restricted areas of the city – and because I can build upon many years of working on a key text for this subject, Book 1 of Procopius’ Buildings.

Conducted by: Dr. Max Ritter

Currently funded by: Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in Istanbul from October 2023 to June 2024

 

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Transcending Boundaries. Jerusalem’s Codices and Communities 900-1500

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Researcher: Dr. Merav Mack 

This project is the first to systematically assemble and compare codices produced in medieval Jerusalem in all languages and by each of its religious communities. This scholarly undertaking will explore libraries worldwide to identify the dispersed codices, study them alongside each other, and unveil connections between them. Reassessing a wide spectrum of cross-cultural influences will allow us to decipher the dynamics of local book production, discern new layers in Jerusalem’s exceptionally rich and multifaceted cultural history, and write a multi-perspective history of the city.

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Grenzüberschreitungen. Jerusalems Handschriften und Gemeinschaften 900-1500

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Forscherin: Dr. Merav Mack

Das Forschungsprojekt wird erstmalig die im mittelalterlichen Jerusalem entstandenen Handschriften, in allen Sprachen und aus allen religiösen Gemeinschaften der Stadt, systematisch sammeln und vergleichen. Im Rahmen des Projekts werden weltweit Bibliotheken und Archive durchsucht um die zerstreuten Handschriften zu ermitteln, sie gemeinsam zu untersuchen und Verbindungen zwischen ihnen aufzuzeigen. Die Überprüfung und Neubewertung der Bandbreite an interkulturellen Einflüssen wird dabei helfen, die Dynamiken lokaler Buchproduktion zu entschlüsseln, neue Schichten der reichhaltigen und facettenreichen kulturellen Geschichte Jerusalems zu entdecken und eine multiperspektivische Geschichte der Stadt zu schreiben.

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Forschungsprojekt Netta Amir

Title

Mobilizing Christian Space in Muslim Territory: Europeans across and beyond the Mamluk Holy Land

 

Abstract

This study examines the formation of the Latin Christian devotional sphere in the Mamluk state. It does so while going beyond the confines of the Holy Land and Jerusalem at its heart to consider the urban centers of Alexandria, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut, and their immediate environs. It is known that these cities attracted merchants or diplomats from East and West. As such, they functioned simultaneously as political or commercial centers and as border areas that provided fertile ground for cultural encounters. To date, studies that have examined the activities of Europeans in these urban centers have tended to focus on aspects of trade and diplomacy. And yet, as can be seen from the accounts of the merchants and diplomats themselves, the attention of the Europeans who reached these cities was commonly also driven elsewhere, to the realms of devotion. By tracing the religious activities of Europeans in these cities, identifying their characteristics and contexts of formation, and analyzing their broad spatial implications, this study wishes to shed light on the particular role of religion and religious practice in perpetuating the movement of Europeans across Mamluk territory and in the construction of their sense of place. In the process of doing so, it will expand our knowledge of the geographical and symbolic dimensions of the Latin Christian devotional sphere that developed under Mamluk rule and deepen our understanding of the coexistence of religions at the interface of the Mediterranean and the Near East.

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Academic Background

2023-2024: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Minerva Stiftung, Department of Byzantine
Studies (host: Prof. Johannes Pahlitzsch), Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
2022-Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, the Open University of Israel
2015-2021: PhD Candidate at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dissertation title: The Formation of the Way of the Cross in Mamluk Jerusalem:
Perceived, Prescribed and Experienced Religious Space
Supervisors: Prof. Iris Shagrir, Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum z"l, Prof. Reuven Amitai
Dissertation approval date: 4/2022
2011-2014: MA, European Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (summa cum laude)
Thesis title: From the New Root to the New Route: Reconstructing the Passion in
Jerusalem during the 12th and 13th Centuries
Supervisor: Prof. Bianca Kühnel
2008-2010: BA (2nd and 3rd year), Art History and General Studies, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem (magna cum laude)
2007-2008: BA (1st year), Music and Art History, the University of Haifa

Employment History

2022: Teaching Fellow at the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2016-2021: Teaching Assistant of Prof. Ronnie Ellenblum z"l at the Department of Geography, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2017-2018: Research Assistant at "'Jesus Was a Jew': Teaching Christianity in Israeli State Education"
research project, the Open University of Israel
2014-2015: Research Assistant of Prof. Iris Shagrir, the Open University of Israel
2014-2015: Teaching Assistant of Dr. Miriam Goldstein at the Department of Arabic Language and
Literature, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012-2014: Research Fellow at "Spectrum: Visual Translations of Jerusalem", ERC Project, the
European Forum, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2010: Teaching Assistant of Dr. Katia Cytryn-Silverman at the Institute of Archaeology, the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Grants and Awards

2021: The Jacob Talmon Excellence Award from the Department of History, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
2018-2021: The Rotenstreich Scholarship for Outstanding Ph.D. Students in the Humanities
2015-2018: Scholarship from the Scholion Interdisciplinary Research Center in the Humanities and
Jewish Studies, the Mandel School for Advanced Studies, the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem
2010: The Robert H. Smith Excellence Award from the Department of Art History, the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem

 

Selected Conference Presentations

2023: "Between Relic and Place: Mobilizing Holy Relics in Medieval Jerusalem," in
Jerusalem the Navel of the Earth, Israel
2022: “Disruptions and Interruptions Along the Streets of Mamluk Jerusalem,” in The Annual
Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Crete
2021: “Desolate Pilgrimage Spaces Following the Fall of Frankish Jerusalem,” in The Society
for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (online conference)
2021: “The Formation of the Way of the Cross in Late Medieval Jerusalem,” in Road Map:
On Routes and their Meanings, Israel
2020: “We Were Here First: Guiding Pupils in Christian Sites,” in “Jesus Was a Jew”:
Teaching Christianity in Israeli State Education, Israel
2017: “Christian Space, Muslim Territory: The Formation of the Way of the Cross between
Crusader and Mamluk Jerusalem,” in The International Medieval Congress, United
Kingdom

 

Organization of Workshops

2024 (future workshop) (with Dr. Merav Mack) Texts in the City: Cultural, Religious and Intellectual Life in
Jerusalem in the High Middle Ages, the Department of Byzantine Studies, Johannes
Gutenberg University, Mainz
2021 (with Ofer Pogorelsky) Road Map: On Routes and their Meanings, the Mandel School
for Advanced Studies, Israel

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Books
The Formation of the Way of the Cross in Jerusalem (12th-15th c.): Perceived, Prescribed and
Experienced Religious Space. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming

Journal Articles
“The Emergence of the Way of the Cross in Jerusalem during the Twelfth and Thirteenth
Centuries.” Crusades 20 (2021): 165-83
(with Iris Shagrir) “The Persecution of the Jews in the First Crusade: Liturgy, Memory,
and Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture.” Speculum 92 (2017): 405-28

Book Chapters
"Mobilizing Holy Relicsin MedievalJerusalem." In City of Relics. Ed. Cecilia Gaposchkin and
Christopher MacEvitt. Forthcoming
"Re-reading the History of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Pilgrimage Texts."
In Holy Land Pilgrimage Texts, c.300-1550. Ed. Mary Boyle, Philip Booth, and Rodney Aist. Leiden:
Brill. Forthcoming
"The Formation of the Way of the Cross: First Steps." In Liturgy, Arts and the Construction
of Cultural Memory in the Middle Ages. Ed. Galit Noga-Banai, Iris Shagrir, Sarit Shalev-Eyni,
Yossi Maury. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2021, 162-77 (Hebrew)
(with Iris Shagrir) "The Memory of the 1096 Rhineland Massacres in Nineteenth-century French
Visual Culture." In Liturgy, Arts and the Construction of Cultural Memory in the Middle Ages. Ed.
Galit Noga-Banai, Iris Shagrir, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Yossi Maury. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2021,
31-60 (Hebrew)

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Soziale Gruppen – Projekt

DFG Projekt

Soziale Gruppen, Strukturen, Netzwerke 

Untersuchungen zur Synthese der mittelbyzantinischen Gesellschaft (7.-11. Jh.)

 

Forscher: Dr. Thomas Pratsch

 

Das Ziel des Projekts ist – ganz allgemein – eine auf ausgewählte thematische Schwerpunkte fokussierte, sozial- und kulturhistorische Analyse der Zusammensetzung (Synthese) der  Gesellschaft des Byzantinischen Reiches der mittleren Periode (7.-11. Jh.), die ganz wesentlich auf dem im Rahmen der „Prosopographie der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit (641–1025 u. Z.)“ (PmbZ) kompilierten Datenmaterial beruht, aber auch neuere prosopographische Erkenntnisse berücksichtigt. Der Fokus dieser Analyse liegt dabei – im speziellen – auf einer genaueren Untersuchung und Interpretation von bestimmten sozialen Gruppen und deren Strukturen, also sowohl ihrer inneren Hierarchisierung als auch ihrer sozialen Lokalisierung, sowie ihrer Netzwerke, also ihrer internen Verknüpfungen und Interaktionen, ihrer Verbindungen untereinander und in Bezug auf die Gesamtbevölkerung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung moderner sozialwissenschaftlicher Methoden. Im Hinblick auf die verschiedenen zu untersuchenden sozialen Gruppen kommen dabei unterschiedliche Theorien und Modelle der Sozialwissenschaften zur Anwendung. Im Rahmen des breiteren Forschungsfeldes der Gender Studies haben in Bezug auf Frauen und Eunuchen vor allem Fragen der Elitesoziologie eine besondere Relevanz. Es soll etwa primär gefragt werden, ob diese sozialen Gruppen eine jeweils eigene oder eine gemeinsame Elite bildeten oder lediglich Bestandteil einer gesamtgesellschaftlichen Elite waren. Fragen der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse sind hier ebenfalls von Bedeutung. Es soll in den Blick genommen werden, ob es eigene soziale Netzwerke von Frauen und Eunuchen gab, oder ob die Vertreter dieser sozialen Gruppen eher isoliert agierten. In Bezug auf Kleriker und Laien gewinnen die Fragen der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse dann eine noch größere Bedeutung. Es soll den sozialen Vernetzungen und Hierarchisierungen innerhalb dieser sozialen Gruppen nachgegangen werden und dabei die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der jeweiligen Netzwerke herausgearbeitet werden. Es soll auch genauer betrachtet werden, welche Beziehungen zwischen beiden Arten von Netzwerken bestehen und welche Verflechtungen zwischen bzw. Transformationen und Integrationen von beiden Netzwerken möglich sind. Bezüglich der Ethnien und Gentes, also der noch greifbaren indigenen Völkerschaften Kleinasiens, der Inseln und anderer Regionen des Reiches, kommen insbesondere Fragestellungen der sozialen Identitätstheorie zur Anwendung. Es soll etwa untersucht werden, welche Bedeutung die ethnisch-kulturelle Identität dieser sozialen Gruppen hatte und in welchem Verhältnis sie zu postulierten übergeordneten Identitäten, etwa einer römisch-byzantinischen oder einer christlichen Identität, standen. Der Schwerpunkt Jugend und Alter eignet sich weniger für die Applikation sozialwissenschaftlicher Theorien und Modelle, erfordert dafür aber eine stärkere Einbeziehung der archäologischen Forschung und ihrer Ergebnisse insbesondere der Gräberarchäologie und der Altersbestimmung bei Skelettuntersuchungen und ermöglicht dann einen Abgleich dieser Befunde aus den untersuchten byzantinischen Nekropolen mit den Informationen der historischen Quellen, um zu präziseren und besser begründeten Aussagen über die Lebenserwartung der Byzantiner oder bestimmter sozialer Gruppen der byzantinischen Bevölkerung und über die gesamte Altersstruktur der byzantinischen Gesellschaft zu gelangen. Es handelt sich bei dem Projekt mithin um eine fokussierte und schwerpunktorientierte sozial- und kulturhistorische Analyse auf der Grundlage quantitativer und qualitativer Relationen bestimmter ausgewählter sozialer Gruppen der byzantinischen Gesellschaft der mittelbyzantinischen Zeit.

 

Zur Webseite des Projekts gelangen Sie hier.

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