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Borghetti, Laura:<\/a> The representation of natural phenomena in Byzantine poetry of the 9th to 12th centuries (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Agapitos).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kladova, Anna<\/strong>: Bishop elections in the Greek Orthodox Church in formerly Byzantine territories in late Byzantine times (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayan, Sibe<\/a>l: Concepts and practices of ideal death in Byzantium in middle and late Byzantine times (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rukavichnikova, Maria<\/a>: War Discourse in Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

1999<\/strong>: Todt, Klaus-Peter: Region and Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in middle Byzantine times and in the age of the Crusades (969\u20131204).<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

2023<\/strong>: Zafeiropoulos, Christos<\/a>: Byzantine Conception of the Empire\u2019s own Fighters during the Reign of the First Palaeologan Emperors (c. 1259-1328). (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/strong>: Exarchos, Leonie: Latin experts and expert cultures in the Byzantine area between 1143 and 1261. (Pahlitzsch, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>: Salzmann, Miriam: The Cypriot Aristocracy in the 15th Century: Social Structures, Social Mobility, and Identity Construction. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>: Meziridou, Sima: The Late Byzantine City of Trebizond and the Ottoman Accommodation. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>: Leber, Taisiya: Founders and their foundations in the Balkans of the Late Middle Ages \u2013 in the field of tension between Orthodox and Latin tradition. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>: Vicente de Medeiros Publio Dias, Jo\u00e3o: The Political Opposition to Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>: Schmidt, Tristan: Animal imagery in the political discourse of the Byzantine imperial court from the late 11th to the early 13th century. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/strong>: Ritter, Max: The economy of Byzantine pilgrimage. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>: Gimbel, Timo: The debate about the goals of the Fourth Crusade and rational concepts of action in historiography. (Pahlitzsch, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/strong>: Hoffmann, Lars Martin: The anti-Jewish dialogue KATA IUDAION of Nikolaos-Nektarios of Otranto. Editio princeps, introduction and commentary. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006<\/strong>: B\u00fcttner, Elmar: Archbishop Leon of Achrida. Life and work. With first edition of the 50 ascetic chapters from the Cod. Vind. theol. gr. 167. (Prinzing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004<\/strong>: Niew\u00f6hner, Philipp: Fading cities in a flourishing country? Aizanoi and the ruralization of Anatolia in the 5th\/6th century AD (Prinzing, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001<\/strong>: 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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993<\/strong>: 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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1989<\/strong>: Todt, Klaus-Peter: Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos and Islam. Political reality and theological polemics in Palaiologan Byzantium. (Prinzing, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

2019<\/strong>: Ousta, Sibel: The perception and representation of dying processes in the Byzantine Empire. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>: 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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>: Schmidt, Tristan Stefan: The symbolism of the lion in the imperial Byzantine court literature of the Komnenos and Angelos era. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

2013<\/strong>: Salzmann, Miriam: Greek-language historiography in Cyprus in the 15th century. A systematic investigation of the Di\u0113g\u0113sis Kronikas Kyprou (1456-1501). (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/strong>: Sokolov, Kostadin Georgiev: Byzantium and the Pechenegs in the 11th century. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/strong>: Vu\u010deti\u0107, Martin Marko: Encounters of Byzantine emperors with foreign rulers in the period from 610 to 1204. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995<\/strong>: Kraus, Christoph Rudolf: The anti-Palamite treatise of Bishop Georgios of Pelagonia. Edition with introduction, working translation and commentary. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordion>\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head of the Post-Doc project: Prof. Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project aims to shed light on some previously little-noticed aspects of the remarkable resilience of the Empire of Trebizond (1204\u20131461) 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicant: Prof. i.R. Dr. G\u00fcnter Prinzing (Mainz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: Dr. Rudolf Stefec (Vienna)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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as part of the research unit 1219 “Personnel decisions in key social positions” of the German Research Foundation (Cooperation Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t \u2013 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main)<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

A case study on religious change in late antiquity from the 4th to the 9th century, by Dr. Robert Schick<\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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 … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"content_raw":"\n

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Borghetti, Laura:<\/a> The representation of natural phenomena in Byzantine poetry of the 9th to 12th centuries (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Agapitos).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kladova, Anna<\/strong>: Bishop elections in the Greek Orthodox Church in formerly Byzantine territories in late Byzantine times (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kayan, Sibe<\/a>l: Concepts and practices of ideal death in Byzantium in middle and late Byzantine times (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rukavichnikova, Maria<\/a>: War Discourse in Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century (doctoral dissertation in preparation; Pahlitzsch).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

1999<\/strong>: Todt, Klaus-Peter: Region and Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch in middle Byzantine times and in the age of the Crusades (969\u20131204).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2023<\/strong>: Zafeiropoulos, Christos<\/a>: Byzantine Conception of the Empire\u2019s own Fighters during the Reign of the First Palaeologan Emperors (c. 1259-1328). (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/strong>: Exarchos, Leonie: Latin experts and expert cultures in the Byzantine area between 1143 and 1261. (Pahlitzsch, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>: Salzmann, Miriam: The Cypriot Aristocracy in the 15th Century: Social Structures, Social Mobility, and Identity Construction. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>: Meziridou, Sima: The Late Byzantine City of Trebizond and the Ottoman Accommodation. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>: Leber, Taisiya: Founders and their foundations in the Balkans of the Late Middle Ages \u2013 in the field of tension between Orthodox and Latin tradition. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>: Vicente de Medeiros Publio Dias, Jo\u00e3o: The Political Opposition to Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>: Schmidt, Tristan: Animal imagery in the political discourse of the Byzantine imperial court from the late 11th to the early 13th century. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/strong>: Ritter, Max: The economy of Byzantine pilgrimage. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>: Gimbel, Timo: The debate about the goals of the Fourth Crusade and rational concepts of action in historiography. (Pahlitzsch, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/strong>: Hoffmann, Lars Martin: The anti-Jewish dialogue KATA IUDAION of Nikolaos-Nektarios of Otranto. Editio princeps, introduction and commentary. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006<\/strong>: B\u00fcttner, Elmar: Archbishop Leon of Achrida. Life and work. With first edition of the 50 ascetic chapters from the Cod. Vind. theol. gr. 167. (Prinzing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004<\/strong>: Niew\u00f6hner, Philipp: Fading cities in a flourishing country? Aizanoi and the ruralization of Anatolia in the 5th\/6th century AD (Prinzing, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001<\/strong>: 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).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993<\/strong>: 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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1989<\/strong>: Todt, Klaus-Peter: Emperor John VI. Kantakuzenos and Islam. Political reality and theological polemics in Palaiologan Byzantium. (Prinzing, second opinion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>: Ousta, Sibel: The perception and representation of dying processes in the Byzantine Empire. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>: 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). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>: Schmidt, Tristan Stefan: The symbolism of the lion in the imperial Byzantine court literature of the Komnenos and Angelos era. (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

2013<\/strong>: Salzmann, Miriam: Greek-language historiography in Cyprus in the 15th century. A systematic investigation of the Di\u0113g\u0113sis Kronikas Kyprou (1456-1501). (Pahlitzsch). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/strong>: Sokolov, Kostadin Georgiev: Byzantium and the Pechenegs in the 11th century. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/strong>: Vu\u010deti\u0107, Martin Marko: Encounters of Byzantine emperors with foreign rulers in the period from 610 to 1204. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995<\/strong>: Kraus, Christoph Rudolf: The anti-Palamite treatise of Bishop Georgios of Pelagonia. Edition with introduction, working translation and commentary. (Prinzing). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Head of the Post-Doc project: Prof. Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the public consciousness \u2013 at least in Western Europe \u2013 Byzantium leads a shadowy existence. It is often not even regarded as part of its own \"European\" culture, but as something exotically foreign, or in the worst case even as a blank space. On the other hand, the considerable importance of Byzantium for European cultural history is undisputed: During its more than 1000-year history (approx. 330 to 1453), Byzantium played a central role as a point of reference as well as an opponent for the other Euro-Mediterranean cultures. Byzantine research therefore has the task of leading Byzantium out of its niche existence in Western research and raising awareness of the importance of Byzantium in science and in the general public. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The debates about the significance of the cultural heritage of the Byzantines for \"European\" culture can be traced back to the second half of the 15th century, i.e. to the time when Byzantium disappeared almost abruptly from the political map in 1453, but remained in the public consciousness for some time as a fixed quantity - especially with regard to its diverse cultural traditions. In many areas (such as political theory and terminology, Philosophy, medicine, etc.), the course was set in the late 15th century for the reception of Byzantium up to the present day. It is precisely this circumstance that makes the exploration of the first decades after the conquest of Constantinople particularly important. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Just a few years after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, a first public discussion broke out in Italy about the significance of the cultural heritage of the Byzantines for the \"West\". It was sparked by the question of whether Platonic Philosophy from Byzantium was an enrichment or, on the contrary, a threat to the \"Western\" world. Soon this dispute widened and eventually developed into a public debate about the compatibility of Platonism with Christian doctrine and about the importance of Byzantine educational traditions and the Greek language for the culture of the West. The discussion reached its provisional climax in 1458 with the publication of the treatise \"Comparatio philosophorum Platonis et Aristotelis\" by Georgios Trapezuntios (1395\u20131472\/73), a rhetoric teacher and papal secretary from Byzantium. In this work, he subsumed all common views on Platonic Philosophy and conveyed many common prejudices against the Platonists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first book, he compared Plato with Aristotle from the point of view of education, and in the second book with regard to the compatibility of both philosophical views with Christian doctrine. In the course of his argumentation, he made a series of devastating judgments both about Plato as a person, whom he criticized for his voluptas and depravitas (keyword: homosexuality), and about his Philosophy, which in his opinion was incompatible with Christian doctrine. In the third and final book, Georgios finally behaved almost like a prophet, quasi as a \"voice in the wilderness\" whose duty it was to warn the entire Western civilization of the dark dangers that, in his eyes, threatened it through the spread of Platonic teachings. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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With his criticism, Georgios primarily tried to hit Bessarion, but without explicitly naming him in the text. Bessarion, the best-known student of the Byzantine scholar Gemistos Plethon (1355\u20131452), had been living in the West as a cardinal of the Catholic Church since 1440 and was considered several times as the most promising candidate for the papacy.
Immediately after the end of the conclave of 1458, in the course of which Bessarion was not elected pope, partly as a result of the rumors spread by Georgios, Bessarion familiarized himself with the material that was spread by his opponent and began work on a detailed reply. During the following ten years, all of Bessarion's efforts and those of his entire entourage were concentrated on designing, elaborating and publicizing a radically divergent picture of Platonic Philosophy and thus also of Byzantium with its diverse religious and cultural traditions, using all available means (such as the dissemination possibilities offered by the newly emerging printing press). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from any exaggeration, the activity of Bessarion and his entourage can no longer be described as a simple reply to Georgios' publication, but almost reached the dimension of a kind of \"PR campaign\" to influence the public perception of Byzantium.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The subject of the project is Bessarion's most important and - apart from a few smaller works - only philosophical work, In Calumniatorem Platonis (\"Against the Slanderer of Plato\", abbreviated as ICP below). The work plays a central role in the reconstruction of the processes of the transfer of Platonic Philosophy from the Byzantine East to the world of the Renaissance. Despite its immense importance, the work is still not fully accessible to modern philological and historical research. As a result, research lacks not only a considerable part of Bessarion's philosophical \u0153uvres: it also remains closed to unique material that allows an insight into the expectations of the learned public of the 15th century regarding the first Plato translations, as well as the philological and historical instruments with which it was able to evaluate the quality of the first Plato translations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ludwig Mohler prepared his edition of Bessarion's writings, he was probably not sufficiently clear about either the complex genesis of the work or the importance that Bessarion himself attached to this work, because this is the only way to explain the large number of his serious editorial errors, which stand in the way of the work's reception to this day:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.) The most serious decision today is probably to assess Mohler's decision to dissolve the unity of the ICP. Both the Greek version and the Latin final versions, which were created directly under Bessarion's eyes, each consist of 6 books. Mohler, on the other hand, contrary to Bessarion's intention, only considered the first 4 of these books to be part of the ICP and published them under this title in the first volume of his edition. He published the 6th book together with a letter from Bessarion to Theodoros Gazes as a kind of more comprehensive version of the same in the 2nd volume of his edition, which was reserved for letters, theological treatises and miscellanea from Bessarion's pen. The 5th book was not edited by Mohler at all and has therefore remained inaccessible to modern research to this day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.) Mohler also did not recognize that the Greek and Latin final versions of the work are not an \"original\" and a \"translation\" of one and the same work - whereby the original was given priority over a deficient \"translation\" - but two versions of one and the same work, which were tailored to the needs of the Greek and Latin audiences respectively. The new edition of this work should therefore not only apostrophize the deficits of the \"translation\" compared to the \"original\", but also and primarily highlight the passages that mutually illuminate each other or the places where the two versions complement each other (such as the sources that are only cited and analyzed in one version and not in the other). <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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3.) Mohler's text contains numerous omissions, faulty and therefore distorting readings as well as misleading punctuation, which can lead to considerable misunderstandings in the translation and interpretation of the text and has demonstrably led to them in the past. In the edition of the 6th book (Mariev et al. 2015), 114 changes were made to the Greek and 23 to the Latin text compared to Mohler's text version, which comprises only 54 pages in his edition. Assuming that the quality of Mohler's text is constant, the number of possible corrections in the context of a new edition of books 1-4, which comprise 631 pages in Mohler, can be estimated at no less than 1325 changes in the Greek and 268 in the Latin text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"La fresque de Benozzo Gozzoli est susceptible d'une interpr\u00e9tation polyphonique : les mages sont ceux du Nouveau Testament. En m\u00eame temps, ce sont des mages d\u00e9positaires de tr\u00e9sors et de la sagesse la plus ancienne, qui viennent pr\u00eater hommage au christianisme; la sagesse passe de l'Orient lointain \u00e0 la Gr\u00e8ce, puis \u00e0 la Florence des M\u00e9dicis. Le mage ancien est \u00e0 la fois Balthasar et un mage, c'est-\u00e0-dire un sage, disciple de Zoroastre. C'est gr\u00e2ce au basileus byzantin et aux philosophes de sa suite, qu'\u00e0 l'\u00e9poque du concile, et depuis la chute de Constantinople, cette sagesse a \u00e9t\u00e9 transmise \u00e0 Florence qui, gr\u00e2ce aux m\u00e9c\u00e9nat des M\u00e9dicis, devient le centre du renouveau religieux, moral et politique.\" (B. Tambrun, Pl\u00e9thon le retour de Platon, Paris, 2006, 29).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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John Monfasani, George of Trebizond: a biography and a study of his rhetoric and logic. 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project aims to shed light on some previously little-noticed aspects of the remarkable resilience of the Empire of Trebizond (1204\u20131461) 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applicant: Prof. i.R. Dr. G\u00fcnter Prinzing (Mainz)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor: Dr. Rudolf Stefec (Vienna)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Administrative structure, civil service and functionality of Byzantine seaports, within the framework of SPP 1630 \u201cPorts from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

The development of Byzantine port facilities has not yet been the subject of systematic investigation. The topicality and relevance of researching the ports of the Byzantine Empire is clear in view of the recent excavations in the Theodosius Port of Constantinople\/Istanbul (Yenikap\u0131). The aim of this project is to create the most detailed possible reconstruction of the port administration in the Byzantine Empire in the period from the seventh to the end of the eleventh century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus is on two components: the administrative structure and the functionality of Byzantine seaports. On the broadest possible source base, this should provide a more precise idea of the administration and operation of the medieval ports of the eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea regions. Depending on the time, different offices and institutions can be found in the tradition (e.g. abydikos, logothet\u0113s t\u014dn hydat\u014dn, sekreton t\u0113s thalass\u0113s, kommerkiarios, horreiarios<\/em>), which were closely linked to the civil functions of the ports. They were entrusted with specific tasks, which concerned, for example, warehouse management, tax and customs collection or food supply. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geographically, the focus of the project is on the Byzantine area in its - changing - extent of the Middle Byzantine period. In terms of time, the investigation begins in the early seventh century and ends with the end of the eleventh. It therefore ranges from the great crisis of the empire - under the impression of the Arab expansion in the Orient and the Slavic settlement on the Balkan Peninsula - to the establishment of the Komnenian dynasty and the beginning of the Crusades, i.e. the far-reaching expansion of the western-Latin world into the Levant, which had far-reaching consequences for the Byzantines. While at the beginning of the investigation period the port administration was still determined by late antique structures, it underwent significant changes in the further course of time: The investigation of the Middle Byzantine port administration can therefore contribute to the investigation of the transformation process from late antique to medieval structures of the Byzantine Empire, whereby both continuities and breaks are looked for. In addition, ports were places of cultural contact or cultural transfer, i.e. contact with the outside world. This aspect must also be taken into account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Information on port administration and the civil service can initially be found in various transmitted narrative sources: historiography and chronicles, but especially hagiography, offer numerous, albeit scattered, reports on port operations. Administrative documents are also of particular importance. In the writing called De administrando imperio <\/em>, the relations of the empire to its neighbors are the focus, in De cerimoniis<\/em>, inner-Byzantine structures are the focus. In the Eparchenbuch<\/em>, various professional groups in the capital Constantinople, their rights and obligations are dealt with, whereby the focus is also on those groups that are connected with ports. Seals, on which the respective officials appear to us together with their titles, are of inestimable importance for the reconstruction of the administrative structures. The corpus of known seals is growing rapidly. New finds give hope for new insights into the administrative structures. Other types of sources to be used are legal texts (e.g. the nomos Rhodion nautikos<\/em>), letters, inscriptions and archaeological finds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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as part of the research unit 1219 \"Personnel decisions in key social positions\" of the German Research Foundation (Cooperation Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\u00e4t \u2013 Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universit\u00e4t Frankfurt am Main)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

A case study on religious change in late antiquity from the 4th to the 9th century, by Dr. Robert Schick<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Research Training Group 2304 \u201cByzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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