Borghetti, Laura: The representation of natural phenomena in Byzantine poetry of the 9th to 12th centuries (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Agapitos).
Kladova, Anna: Bishop elections in the Greek Orthodox Church in formerly Byzantine territories in late Byzantine times (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).
Kayan, Sibel: Concepts and practices of ideal death in Byzantium in middle and late Byzantine times (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).
Rukavichnikova, Maria: War Discourse in Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).
1999: Todt, Klaus-Peter: Region and Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in middle Byzantine times and in the age of the Crusades (969–1204).
2023: Zafeiropoulos, Christos: Byzantine Conception of the Empire’s own Fighters during the Reign of the First Palaeologan Emperors (c. 1259-1328). (Pahlitzsch).
2020: Exarchos, Leonie: Latin experts and expert cultures in the Byzantine area between 1143 and 1261. (Pahlitzsch, second opinion).
2019: Salzmann, Miriam: The Cypriot Aristocracy in the 15th Century: Social Structures, Social Mobility, and Identity Construction. (Pahlitzsch).
2019: Meziridou, Sima: The Late Byzantine City of Trebizond and the Ottoman Accommodation. (Pahlitzsch).
2018: Leber, Taisiya: Founders and their foundations in the Balkans of the Late Middle Ages – in the field of tension between Orthodox and Latin tradition. (Pahlitzsch).
2018: Vicente de Medeiros Publio Dias, João: The Political Opposition to Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). (Pahlitzsch).
2018: Schmidt, Tristan: Animal imagery in the political discourse of the Byzantine imperial court from the late 11th to the early 13th century. (Pahlitzsch).
2017: Ritter, Max: The economy of Byzantine pilgrimage. (Pahlitzsch).
2014: Gimbel, Timo: The debate about the goals of the Fourth Crusade and rational concepts of action in historiography. (Pahlitzsch, second opinion).
2007: Hoffmann, Lars Martin: The anti-Jewish dialogue KATA IUDAION of Nikolaos-Nektarios of Otranto. Editio princeps, introduction and commentary. (Prinzing).
2006: Büttner, Elmar: Archbishop Leon of Achrida. Life and work. With first edition of the 50 ascetic chapters from the Cod. Vind. theol. gr. 167. (Prinzing).
2004: Niewöhner, Philipp: Fading cities in a flourishing country? Aizanoi and the ruralization of Anatolia in the 5th/6th century AD (Prinzing, second opinion).
2001: Vest, Bernd A.: History of the city of Melitene and the surrounding areas from the eve of the Arab to the completion of the Turkish occupation (around 600-1124). (Prinzing, second opinion).
1993: Kidonopoulos, Vassilios: Buildings in Constantinople in the period 1204-1328. Decay and destruction, conversion and new construction of secular and sacred buildings in the Byzantine capital. (Prinzing).
1989: Todt, Klaus-Peter: Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos and Islam. Political reality and theological polemics in Palaiologan Byzantium. (Prinzing, second opinion).
2019: Ousta, Sibel: The perception and representation of dying processes in the Byzantine Empire. (Pahlitzsch).
2014: Kladova, Anna: The representation of the history of the Patriarchate of Constantinople between 1453 and 1500 in the Greek chronicles of the 16th century: a source-critical investigation. (Pahlitzsch).
2014: Schmidt, Tristan Stefan: The symbolism of the lion in the imperial Byzantine court literature of the Komnenos and Angelos era. (Pahlitzsch).
2013: Salzmann, Miriam: Greek-language historiography in Cyprus in the 15th century. A systematic investigation of the Diēgēsis Kronikas Kyprou (1456-1501). (Pahlitzsch).
2011: Sokolov, Kostadin Georgiev: Byzantium and the Pechenegs in the 11th century. (Prinzing).
2009: Vučetić, Martin Marko: Encounters of Byzantine emperors with foreign rulers in the period from 610 to 1204. (Prinzing).
1995: Kraus, Christoph Rudolf: The anti-Palamite treatise of Bishop Georgios of Pelagonia. Edition with introduction, working translation and commentary. (Prinzing).
This project contributes to the investigation of the beginnings of printing in the Ottoman Empire in the period from the end of the 15th to the end of the 17th century. During this period, one can only speak of Jewish and Christian printing houses, as printing was not used for Muslim literature. The aim is to examine printed books from the Ottoman area of the early modern period and to compare the forms and content of book production of different religious groups. The planned detailed analysis of the first printed Cyrillic books in the Ottoman Empire provides a basis for researching the transmission of the Byzantine heritage in post-Byzantine times.
Specifically, the project examines the role of printed books in the dissemination of “Byzantine knowledge” within the Ottoman Empire and beyond in the Slavic world, whereby “Byzantine knowledge” is understood to mean both knowledge produced or handed down in Byzantium, for example in the field of Theology/Philosophy or the arts, as well as knowledge about Byzantium, for example in historiography or Ecclesiastical History. In this context, the project also investigates the development of post-Byzantine networks of Orthodox Christians that extended far beyond the Ottoman borders, as far as Poland-Lithuania and the Muscovite Empire, and through which this knowledge was disseminated. Moldavia-Wallachia played a particularly important role in the transfer of knowledge between the Ottoman and Eastern Europe – a region that developed into the center of Slavic, Greek and Romanian printing.
Head of the Post-Doc project: Prof. Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)
Grant
DFG SPP Transottomanica: East European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
Support
DFG SPP Transottomanica: East European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics
The project aims to shed light on some previously little-noticed aspects of the remarkable resilience of the Empire of Trebizond (1204–1461) against Ottoman conquest. Based on a critical new edition of the so-called Horoscope of Trebizond from 1336, a systematic attempt will be made for the first time to identify the characteristics of the medieval Pontic dialect in order to check how the geographical and political isolation of the empire was reflected at the linguistic level. In addition to the document dossier of the Vazelon Monastery and inscriptions, paraliterary microtexts will also be used as an additional starting point for a study of the medieval Pontic dialect. A larger number of such texts, which are preserved in Codex Berol. gr. qu. 5 and provide a unique testimony of the transition from Byzantine to Turkish rule in the eastern Pontus region, will be critically edited, translated and provided with a detailed historical commentary.
Applicant: Prof. i.R. Dr. Günter Prinzing (Mainz)
Editor: Dr. Rudolf Stefec (Vienna)
Grant: Gerda Henkel Stiftung.
Administrative structure, civil service and functionality of Byzantine seaports, within the framework of SPP 1630 “Ports from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages”
as part of the research unit 1219 “Personnel decisions in key social positions” of the German Research Foundation (Cooperation Johannes Gutenberg-Universität – Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
A case study on religious change in late antiquity from the 4th to the 9th century, by Dr. Robert Schick
Arabic Legal Documents (8th to 15th c.)
The Department of History offers you the opportunity to do a doctorate if you would like to conduct independent historical research after completing your program of study. In accordance with the research units [im Rahmen der Forschungsinitiative 2008-11], a wide variety of doctoral topics from antiquity to contemporary history are conceivable. For a doctorate, you need the willingness of an academic staff member with a habilitation from the Department of History to take on the supervision of your project. Further information can be found in the regulations and procedures governing the doctorate of the faculty.
Research Training Group 2304 “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”
