One. Social structures -- A. Brotherhood language -- B. Kinship and the family -- C. Other forms ... more One. Social structures -- A. Brotherhood language -- B. Kinship and the family -- C. Other forms of brotherhood and the significance of oaths -- D. Friendship and Christianity -- E. Homosociability in Byzantium -- Two. The ritual of adelphopoiesis -- A. The manuscript evidence for the ritual and its use -- B. Table of manuscripts -- C. Table of prayers in chronological sequence -- D. Translation of the prayers -- E. The prayers : history and purpose -- Three. The origins : small-group monasticism in late Antiquity -- A. Monastic beginnings -- B. Small monastic groups and paired monks in documents -- C. Small groups of monks in the monastic literature -- D. Temptations and challenges -- E. Sharing spiritual capital and the same tomb -- F. Case study: Symeon the Fool and John and other examples from hagiography -- G. Byzantine continuations of small-group monasticism -- Four. The social practice of brother-making in Byzantium -- A. Seventh-century transitions -- B. Spiritual brotherhood beyond the monastery -- C. Case study: Emperor Basil I and John, the son of Danelis -- D. Brother-making in practice : middle and high society -- Five. Prescriptions and restrictions in Byzantium -- A. Rules and regulations -- B. Case study: Demetrios Chomatenos, legal expert and bishop in 13th-century Epiros -- Six. Beyond Byzantium.
This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authoria... more This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason for the different scales of actors that appear in these texts, whether large blurry masses of nameless people, smaller groups with a distinct profile, or finely drawn individuals.
This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through ... more This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium. Beginning in the first century CE, the universal claims of Hellenistic and Roman imperialism began to be challenged by the growing role of Christianity in shaping the primary allegiances and identities of citizens. An international team of scholars considers the extent of urban transformation, and with it, of cultural and civic identity, as practices and institutions associated with the city-state came to be replaced by those of the Christian community. The twelve essays gathered here develop an innovative research agenda by asking new questions: what was the effect on political ideology and civic identity of the transition from the city culture of the ancient world to the ruralized systems of the middle ages? How did perceptions of empire and oikoumene respond to changed political circumstances? How did Christianity redefine the context of citi...
Cristianità d'Occidente e cristianità d'Oriente, 2004
Información del artículo Hagiography and Monastic Literature between Greek East and Latin West in... more Información del artículo Hagiography and Monastic Literature between Greek East and Latin West in Late Antiquity.
One. Social structures -- A. Brotherhood language -- B. Kinship and the family -- C. Other forms ... more One. Social structures -- A. Brotherhood language -- B. Kinship and the family -- C. Other forms of brotherhood and the significance of oaths -- D. Friendship and Christianity -- E. Homosociability in Byzantium -- Two. The ritual of adelphopoiesis -- A. The manuscript evidence for the ritual and its use -- B. Table of manuscripts -- C. Table of prayers in chronological sequence -- D. Translation of the prayers -- E. The prayers : history and purpose -- Three. The origins : small-group monasticism in late Antiquity -- A. Monastic beginnings -- B. Small monastic groups and paired monks in documents -- C. Small groups of monks in the monastic literature -- D. Temptations and challenges -- E. Sharing spiritual capital and the same tomb -- F. Case study: Symeon the Fool and John and other examples from hagiography -- G. Byzantine continuations of small-group monasticism -- Four. The social practice of brother-making in Byzantium -- A. Seventh-century transitions -- B. Spiritual brotherhood beyond the monastery -- C. Case study: Emperor Basil I and John, the son of Danelis -- D. Brother-making in practice : middle and high society -- Five. Prescriptions and restrictions in Byzantium -- A. Rules and regulations -- B. Case study: Demetrios Chomatenos, legal expert and bishop in 13th-century Epiros -- Six. Beyond Byzantium.
This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authoria... more This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason for the different scales of actors that appear in these texts, whether large blurry masses of nameless people, smaller groups with a distinct profile, or finely drawn individuals.
This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through ... more This volume examines the evolving role of the city and citizenship from classical Athens through fifth-century Rome and medieval Byzantium. Beginning in the first century CE, the universal claims of Hellenistic and Roman imperialism began to be challenged by the growing role of Christianity in shaping the primary allegiances and identities of citizens. An international team of scholars considers the extent of urban transformation, and with it, of cultural and civic identity, as practices and institutions associated with the city-state came to be replaced by those of the Christian community. The twelve essays gathered here develop an innovative research agenda by asking new questions: what was the effect on political ideology and civic identity of the transition from the city culture of the ancient world to the ruralized systems of the middle ages? How did perceptions of empire and oikoumene respond to changed political circumstances? How did Christianity redefine the context of citi...
Cristianità d'Occidente e cristianità d'Oriente, 2004
Información del artículo Hagiography and Monastic Literature between Greek East and Latin West in... more Información del artículo Hagiography and Monastic Literature between Greek East and Latin West in Late Antiquity.
Development of the cult, including the hagiographical accounts, of Epiphanius of Cyprus. The only... more Development of the cult, including the hagiographical accounts, of Epiphanius of Cyprus. The only summary of my dissertation currently in print.
In 1935, the Romanian intellectual and historian Nicolae Iorga (1871-1940) published a book with ... more In 1935, the Romanian intellectual and historian Nicolae Iorga (1871-1940) published a book with the evocative title Byzance après Byzance. True to his political perspective, it aimed to show how the cultural tradition of Byzantium continued in the Danubian principalities under Ottoman rule, encouraged by enlightened rulers and implemented by authors and teachers who were equally at home in the religious world of Orthodox Christianity and in the intellectual tradition that reaches back to Byzantium and Classical Greece. With characteristic succinctness, Iorga described the educational aspirations of the Greek learned men of 18 th century as follows: "Ce n'est pas comme Grecs voulant gréciser, mais comme héritiers d'une civilisation universelle de langue grecque, que ces didascales tâchent de gagner par les écoles qu'on vient de fonder tout orthodoxe à leur hellénisme de saveur byzantine" 1 . This world of study and learning, of 'Hellenism with a Byzantine flavor', is at the center of the following remarks. I will focus on Konstantinos Dapontes (1713-1784) who spent much of his life in Moldavia and Wallachia. His prolific output of publications can serve as an illustration of the rise of Greek cultural self-awareness and self-definition in the half-century preceding the
New Light on Old Manuscripts, ed. C. Rapp, G. Rossetto, J. Grusková, G. Kessel, 2023
Based on the 74 palimpsested objects studied in the Sinai Palimpsests Project (sinaipalimpsests.o... more Based on the 74 palimpsested objects studied in the Sinai Palimpsests Project (sinaipalimpsests.org), this article presents first observations on the creation and use of palimpsested writing material (also in comparison to Jewish and Muslim practices) and the presence of erased languages in relation to the languages of the overtext.
This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authoria... more This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason for the different scales of actors that appear in these texts, whether large blurry masses of nameless people, smaller groups with a distinct profile, or finely drawn individuals.
This multiauthored article presents a new project to study Byzantine prayer books (euchologia) b... more This multiauthored article presents a new project to study Byzantine prayer books (euchologia) by a team of scholars at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The longterm aim of the project is to create a census of all extant prayer book manuscripts for the use of priests in Greek up to the year 1650, in order to facilitate the study of the ‘occasional prayers’ as sources for daily life and social history. After an extended introduction to the history of scholarship and the methodological challenges encountered in the first three years of the project, the first two individual contributions highlight the importance of manuscript study in situ, by addressing issues of codicology and the history of manuscripts as evidenced in the liturgical commemorations they contain. The following three contributions demonstrate the value of the ‘small prayers’ as a largely untapped historical source through the study of prayers for changing religious affiliation, prayers for female purity in conjunction with childbirth, and prayers in the context of primary education.
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