ScriptoriaSlavica

Medieval Slavic Manuscripts and Culture

Author: johnson.60@osu.edu (page 4 of 15)

Andrei A. Orlov’s books on Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament

Andrei A. Orlov, professor of theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), presented us with one of his recent publications, Воскрешение ветхого Адама: вознесение, преображение и обожение праведника в раннеи иудеискои мистике  ‘Resurrection of the Fallen Adam: Ascension, Transfiguration, and Deification of the Righteous in Early Jewish Mysticism.’

Gray book cover with author and title in black with black image of a Hanukkah menorah with a tree on either side

The volume is a collection of previously published articles, some of which have been revised. The book is divided into four sections: the Book of 2 Enoch, Jacob’s Ladder, the Apocalypse of Abraham, and the Book of 3 Baruch.

New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only (Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2012), edited by Andrei A. Orlov, TItle, authors and series title in varying shades of blue from light blue-gray to turquoise , which is vol. 4 of the series Studia Judaeoslavica, contains the collected proceedings from the Fifth Conference of the Enoch Seminar in Naples, Italy (June 14-18, 2009). It includes articles by Grant Macaskill, Liudmila Navtanovich, Anissava Miltenova et al.

 

Front cover of the book: top third is author name in gold, title in white, lower two-thirds of the cover is a fresco of the Archangel Michael from the Byzantine and Christian Museum in AthensOther works by Orlov include “Potaennye knigi”: iudeiskaia mistika v slavianskikh apokrifakh (2011), Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanael in Early Jewish Demonology (2011; Project MUSE 2014), Heavenly Priesthood in the Apocalypse of Abraham (2013), Selected Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2009), Divine Manifestations in the Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2009), From Apocalypticism to Merkabah Mysticism: Studies in the Slavonic Pseudepigraph (2007), and The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (2005).

 

Recent Acquisition: The Holy Mountain: Thoughts and Studies, Vol. 8

We received from Mirjana Živojinović, President of the Hilandar Committee in Beograd, the latest volume in a series dedicated to the Holy Mountain: Thoughts and Studies, Osma kazivanja o Svetoj Gori (Beograd : Zadužbina Svetog manastira Hilandara ; Društvo prijatelja Svete Gore Atonske, 2012, which contains a dozen articles related to Hilandar Monastery and Mount Athos.

A Word of Greeting from Archimandrite Metodije, abbot of Hilandar Monastery, 11

Introduction, 13-14

Emil Tahiaos, “Духовна порука Свете Горе савременој Европи,” 15-30, abstract in English “The Spiritual Message of Mount Athos to Contemporary Europe,” 341-342, abstract in Greek, 365-366.

Andrej, Bishop of Remesiana, “О православном монаштву на Светој Гори,” 31-49, abstract in English “About Orthodox Christian Monasticism on Mount Athos,” 343-344, abstract in Greek, 367-368.

Bojana Krsmanović, “Оснивање словенских манастира на Светој Гори атонској – сличности и разлике,” 51-75, abstract in English “The Founding of the Slavic Monasteries on Mount Athos – Similarities and Differences,” 345-346, abstract in Greek, 369-371.

Mirjana Živojinović, “Монаси Хиландара у улози дипломата између српског двора и Византије,” 77-96, abstract in English “The Hilandar Monks as Diplomats between the Serbian Court and Byzantium,” 347, abstract in Greek, 372-373.

Srđan Pirivatrić, “Хиладнар и лионска унија,” 97-108, abstract in English “Hilandar and the Union of Lyon,” 349-351, abstract in Greek, 374-377.

Ognjen Krešić, “Пајсије Хиландарски и његова Историја Славјанобугарска,” 109-125, abstract in English “Paisii of Hilandar and his Slavonic-Bulgarian History,” 352, abstract in Greek, 378-379.

Mirko Sajlović, “Сабрана уласка женама на Свету Гору Атонску,” 127-159, abstract in English “The Ban on Women Entering Mount Athos,” 353, abstract in Greek, 380.

Nenad Makuljević, “Унутрашњост католикона манастира Хиландара у новом веку,” 161-203, abstract in English “Interior of the Katholikon of the Monastery of Hilandar in the Modern Age,” 354, abstract in Greek, 381.

Ljiljana Ševo, “Зидно сликарство у параклису Светих апостола у Хиландару,” 205-253, abstract in English, “Wall Painting in the Parakklesion of the Holy Apostles in Hilandar,” 355-356, abstract in Greek, 382-383.

Igor Borozan, “Произвођење традиције: Хиландар и српски монарски крајем 19. века,” 255-303, abstract in English, “Producing Tradition: Hilandar and Serbian Monks at the End of the 19th Century,” 357, abstract in Greek, 384.

Irena Špadijer, “Хиландар и почеци српске књижевности,” 305-318, abstract in English “Hilandar and the Beginnings of Serbian Literature,” 358-359, abstract in Greek, 385-387.

Vesna Peno, “Светогорски појци и писари с почетка XIX века – сатрудници у обликовању музичке реформе,” 319-337, abstract in English “Athonite Chanters and Scribes from the Start of the 19th Century – Collaborators in the Shaping of the Music Reform,” 388-389.

CFP: Eighth Annual Romanian Studies Conference

CFP: Eighth Annual Romanian Studies Conference

March 27-28, 2015
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Deadline for submitting abstracts: February 15, 2015

The Romanian Studies Organization at Indiana University is pleased to announce the 8th Annual International Romanian Conference, taking place on March 27th-28th, on the Bloomington campus. Proposals from graduate students and recent PhDs on any topic related to Romania, Moldova, or the Romanian diaspora, in any discipline or methodology are welcomed. Interdisciplinary approaches are especially encouraged but papers from historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, linguists, literary critics, and musicologists are regularly accepted.

This year, the keynote lecture “Multimedia in the Secret Police Archives: A Film, 2 Photo Albums, and 27 Files,” will be delivered by Dr. Cristina Vatulescu, associate professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words, along with your contact information and a brief biography, to Elena Popa at epopa@indiana.edu by February 15th, 2015. Please submit abstracts in .doc file format rather than .docx or .pdf.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 25th.

Any inquiries about the conference or the program may be directed to Elena Popa at epopa@indiana.edu.

 

Source of text: Listserv of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University, 1/12/2015

Recent Acquisitions, November 2014

bluish-green cover with the title in Serbian at the top of the page, in English at the bottom, with a seal of the Centre between the two.

Front cover of the inaugural issue of Initial (2013)

 

Initial: A Review of Medieval Studies 1 (2013). Иницијал: Часопис за средњовековне студије, књ. 1 (2013).
Beograd: Centre for Advanced Medieval Studies. Београд: Центар за напредне средњовековне студије.

 

Initial: A Review of Medieval Studies 2 (2014)Иницијал: Часопис за средњовековне студије, књ. 2 (2014).
Beograd: Centre for Advanced Medieval Studies. Београд: Центар за напредне средњовековне студије.

The journal’s Editor-in-Chief is Srđan Rudić.

The editoral board consists Lenka Blechová-Čelebić (Prague), Stanoje Bojanin, Borislav Grgin (Zagreb), Gábor Klaniczay (Budapest), Esad Kurtović (Sarajevo), Smilja Marjanović-Dušanić, Vojin Nedeljković, Georgi Nikolov (Sofia), Paola Pinelli (Florence), Danica Popović, Dejan Radičević, Srđan Rudić, Irena Špadijer, Georg Vogeler (Graz).

Publishing Editor is Dragić Živojinović.

 

Table of contents for volume 1 of Initial (2013)

Table of contents for volume 1 of Initial (2013)

Table of contents for volume 2 of Initial (2014)

Table of contents for volume 2 of Initial (2014)

 

Recent Electronic Publications from the Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts

 

Miklosichiana Bicentennalia: Зборник участ двестоте годишњице рођења Франца Миклошича.

A collection of articles in honor of the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of Franz Miklosich, edited by Jasmina Grković-Major and Aleksandar Loma.

Контрастивна граматика српског и украјинског језика: Таксис и евиденцијалност.

A Contrastive Grammar of Serbian and Ukrainian: Taxis and Evidentiality by Ljudmila Popović.

Теолингвитичка проучавања словенских језика.

Тheo-Linguistic Studies of the Slavic Languages. A collection of articles edited by Jasmina Grković-Major and Ksenija Končarević.

La toponymie de la charte de fondation de Banjska: Vers la conception d’un dictionnaire des noms de lieux de la Serbie medievale et une meilleure connaissance des structures onomastiques du slave commun by Aleksandar Loma.

Matthew Blastares: The Syntagma. Translated from Serbian Church Slavonic by Tatjana Subotin-Golubović.

Polata Knigopisnaia

Poziv za slanje radova

         Polata Knigopisnaia jedini je međunarodni časopis posvećen proučavanju slovenske srednjovekovne pismenosti na Zapadu. Od samog pojavljivanja – od 1978. godine – časopis Polata Knigopisnaia posvećen je održavanju visokog nivoa kvaliteta radova koji se u njemu objavljuju. Od 2006. godine časopis je dostupan samo kao internet izdanje na internet adresi Banke znanja Državnog univerziteta u Ohaju (Knowledge Bank at The Ohio State University): <https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/6399>

Polata knigopisnaia 1 (1978)

Polata Knigopisnaia 1 (1978)

Urednici časopisa, Kristijano Didi (Cristiano Diddi) sa Univerziteta u Salernu (University of Salerno), M. A. Džonson iz Hilandarske istraživačke biblioteke Državnog univerziteta Ohaja (Hilandar Research Library at The Ohio State University) i Robert Romančuk (Robert Romanchuk) sa Državnog univerziteta Floride (Florida State University), primenjivaće novi sistem recenziranja radova potencijalnih saradnika od 2007. godine pa nadalje.

Svi potencijalni saradnici časopisa za koje urednici budu smatrali da su zadovoljili kriterijume časopisa biće anonimno recenzirani od strane dva recenzenta.

Recenzenti časopisa su: Dejvid Birnbaum (David J. Birnbaum) sa Univerziteta u Pitsburgu (University of Pittsburgh), Danijel Kolins (Daniel E. Collins) sa Državnog univerziteta Ohaja (The Ohio State University), Predrag Matejić iz Hilandarske istraživačke biblioteke Državnog univerziteta Ohaja (Hilandar Research Library at The Ohio State University), Dženifer Spok (Jennifer Spock) sa Univerziteta Istočnog Kentakija (Eastern Kentucky University) i Julija Verkholancev (Julia Verkholantsev) sa Univerziteta u Pensilvaniji (University of Pennsylvania).

Urednici časopisa Polata Knigopisnaia objavljuju poziv za slanje radova koji bi trebalo da se pojave u 2014. godini, u svesci br. 39. Polata Knigopisnaia objavljuje izdanja srednjovekovnih slovenskih tekstova, ali i članke, indekse, bibliografije i prikaze posvećene slovenskim srednjovekovnim tekstovima (rukopisima i štampanim knjigama), posebno njihovom istorijskom i kulturnom kontekstu.

Autori koji žele priložiti rad dodatne informacije o tematici časopisa i načinu priređivanja radova mogu dobiti od urednika časopisa.

 

Urednici:

Cristiano Diddi crdiddi@unisa.it

M.A. Johnson johnson.60@osu.edu

Robert Romanchuk rromanch@mailer.fsu.edu

CFP: Polata Knigopisnaia 39 (2014)

 

Polata Knigopisnaia Issues Call for Papers

Polata Knigopisnaia, an international journal of Early Slavic books, texts, and literatures, is the only Western serial focused primarily on the study of Early Slavic manuscripts and material texts. Since publication began in 1978 it has maintained a rigorously high level of quality; from 2006 it has been available exclusively on-line at the Knowledge Bank at The Ohio State University:

<https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/handle/1811/6399>.

Polata knigopisnaia 1 (1978)The editors of Polata Knigopisnaia, Cristiano Diddi of the University of Salerno, M. A. Johnson of the Hilandar Research Library at The Ohio State University, and Robert Romanchuk of Florida State University, have adopted an editorial-board peer review system for contributions from 2007 forward. All contributions that the editors consider to fit the scope and criteria of PK will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the editorial board.

The editorial board of Polata Knigopisnaia is: David J. Birnbaum of the University of Pittsburgh, Daniel E. Collins of The Ohio State University, Predrag Matejic of the Hilandar Research Library at The Ohio State University, Jennifer Spock of Eastern Kentucky University, and Julia Verkholantsev of the University of Pennsylvania.

The editors of Polata Knigopisnaia are issuing a call for papers to appear in vol. 39 (2014). PK publishes scholarly articles, editions, indexes, and bibliographical and review essays related to Early Slavic texts, manuscripts, and early printed books, and their historical and cultural contexts.

Authors considering submitting an article are encouraged to contact an editor to discuss length and subject matter, and to obtain a style sheet.

 

Cristiano Diddi <crdiddi@unisa.it>

M.A. Johnson <johnson.60@osu.edu>

Robert Romanchuk <rromanch@mailer.fsu.edu>

New Volume of TODRL: vol. 62 (2014)

 

The Hilandar Research Library has received the latest volume of Trudy Otdela Drevnerusskoi Literatury / ‘Works of the Department of Old Russian Literature,’ an invaluable publication of the Institute of Russian Literature “Pushkinskii Dom” of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia. The 774-page volume contains articles on the topics of biblical studies and the history of the Church; hagiography, hymnography, and tales of icons; historiography; didactic literature, polemical works, miscellanies; pilgrimage; scriptoria and scribes, archaeography; polemics; bibliography; and obituary notices of prominent scholars in the field.

Biblical Studies and the History of the Church

V.A. Romodanovskaia, “K istorii Novogo Zaveta Gennadievskoi biblii i Evangelii XV v. Razvitie sistem otsylok. Part II,” 3-20.

O.A. Belobrova, “Illiustrirovannye Biblii XVI-XVII vekov v russkikh srednevekovykh bibliotekakh,” 21-28.

G.M. Prokhorov, “Isihasty na Spaso-Kamennom,” 29-33.

N.V. Ponyrko, “Dimitrii Rostovskii kak avtor ‘Rozyska o raskol’nicheskoi brynskoi vere,” 34-42.

Hagiography, Hymnography, Tales of Icons

T.I. Aleksandrova, “Stikhiry sluzhby Velikogo pokaiannogo kanona Andreia Kritskogo i stanovlenie slavianskoi Triodi,” 43-52.

A.G. Mel’nik, “Praktika pochitaniia sv. Alekseia, mitropolita vseia Rusi, v XVI veke,” 53-69.

T.L. Nikitina, “Prepodobnyi Avraamii Rostovskii. Pozdniaia agiograficheskaia traditsiia i gimnografiia,” 70-92.

I.A. Lobakova, “Istoricheskie sobytiia i litsa v Zhitii Irinarkha Rostovskogo. Smutnoe vremia v agiograficheskom proizvedenii,” 93-119.

M.A. Fedotova, “Skazanie, koeia radi viny izlozhisia Akafist sviatiteliu Khristovu Dimitriiu,” (Ob odnom chude sviatogo Dimitriia Rostovskogo), 120-142.

V.V. Lepakhin, “Skazanie ob ikone Nikoly Zarazskogo. Nekotorye problemy issledovaniia,” 143-166.

E.M. IUkhimenko, “Vygovskaia ikona ‘Obraz vsekh rossiiskikh chudotvortsev,'” 167-174.

Historiography

E.G. Vodolazkin, “Kak sozdavalas’ Polnaia Khronograficheskaia Paleiia, Chast’ 2,” 175-200.

I.L. Zhukova, “Novyi spisok Sofiiskoi I letopisi (samostoiatel’naia gruppa),” 201-224.

A.V. Maiorov, “Grecheskii olovir Daniila Galitskogo. Iz kommentariia k Galitsko-Volynskoi letopisi,” 225-235.

E.S. Bystrova, “K probleme datirovki, Novgorodskoi Pogodinskoi letopisi,” 236-247.

A. S. Levochskaia, “O rabote IUriia Krizhanicha nad tekstom russkoi letopisi,” 248-259.

M.V. Semina, “Gramota velikogo kniazia Olega Riazanskogo XIV veka,” 260-268.

Didactic Literature, Polemical Works, Miscellanies

O.V. Tvorogov, “Opisanie sostava Prostrannoi redaktsii Prologa po spiskam XIV-XVI vekov, Chast’ 1: Prolog za sentiabr’-fevral’,” 269-342.

M.B. Pliukhanova, “‘Mnogoslozhnoe poslanie/svitok’ kak laboratoriia idei,” 375-419.

S.A. Semiachko, “‘Predanie starcheskoe novonachal’nomu inoku,’ v sostave Sledovannoi psaltiri,” 375-419.

Pilgrimage Literature

I.V. Fedorova, “Varvara Pavlovna Adrianova-Peretts kak issledovatel’ drevnerusskokh ‘khozhdenii’ (K 40-letiiu so dnia smerti),” 420-449.

I.V. Fedorova, “‘Povest’ o sviatoi gore Sinaiskoi’ – maloizvestnyi pamiatnik vostochnoslavianskoi palomicheskoi literatury,” 450-479.

Scriptoria and Scribes, Archaeography

M.A. Shibaev, “‘Vetshanye’ minei i rekonstruktsiia sbornikov XV v. iz biblioteki Kirillo-Belozerskogo monastyria,” 480-496.

T.R. Rudi, “K biografii Ermolaia-Erazma (Ermolai-Erazm i Kirillo-Belozerskii monastyr’),” 497-527.

A.G. Bobrov, “Proiskhozhdenie i sud’ba Musin-Pushkinskogo sbornika so ‘Slovom o polku Igoreve,'” 528-553.

O.V. Panchenko, “Povesti o solovetskikh pustynozhiteliakh (K istorii sozdaniia tsikla),” 554-613.

V.A. Esipova, “Dve rukopisi kruga Dimitriia Rostovskogo (Po materialam Nauchnoi biblioteki Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universitets), 614-627.

A. Dzhurova, “Rol’ Vizantii v ofromlenii slavianskogo kodeksa (glagolicheskogo i kirillicheskogo): Problemy retseptsii,” 628-643.

E.A. Liakhovitskii, “Issledovanie bumagi v izuchenii pis’mennykh pamiatnikov. Problemy klassifikatsii i interpretatsii vodianykh znakov,” 644-672.

Polemics

L.V. Sokolova, “Pervonachal’na li Kratkaia redaktsiia ‘Zadonshchiny’? (V sviazi s noveishimi rabotami o vzaimootnoshenii ‘Slovo o polku Igoreve’ i ‘Zadoshchiny’),” 673-724.

Bibliography

Khronologicheskii spisok nauchnykh trudov Andreia Nikolaevicha Robinsona za 1946-2010 rr., 725-739.

Khronologicheskii spisok nauchnykh trudov Olega Viktorovicha Tvorogova za 2004-2014 rr., 740-744.

Khronologicheskii spisok nauchnykh trudov Natalii Sergeevny Demkovoi za 2002-2013 rr., 745-750.

Obituaries

Marina Alekseevna Salmina (1927-2013), 751-757

Elena Konstantinova Romodanovskaia (1937-2013), 758-763

List of abbreviations, 764-768
Submitting articles to TODRL, 769-771
Table of Contents, 772-774

 

 

2014 Byzantine Studies Conference, Vancouver, Canada

 

This year’s Byzantine Studies Conference will be held at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, November 6-9, 2014.

Final version of the Abstracts of Papers

See the Draft of the conference program below:

PROGRAM

Thursday, November 6, 2014

4:30-6:30PM

Registration, Reception, and Welcome
Founders Hall – Segal Building, 500 Granville Street
6:30-8:30 First Board Meeting

Friday, November 7, 2014

8:30 AM Welcome
Segal Building, 500 Granville Street
Dimitris Krallis, Simon Fraser University

9:00-11:30 Session 1
1A Session in honor of Erica Cruikshank Dodd: The visual culture of Byzantium in a Mediterranean context

Chair: Lesley Jessop, University of Victoria, B.C

  • “Visual Theology in Early Byzantine and Islamic Art”
    Rico Franses, American University of Beirut
  • “Three Women and their Icons in the Context of the Crusades”
    Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
  • “Two 13th Century Icons from the Monastery of St. Catherine: Byzantine or Crusader”
    Jaroslav Folda, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • “The Silks of Palermo in Philagathos’ Ekphrasis and the Byzantine Textile Industry of the Twelfth Century”
    Evanthia Baboula, University of Victoria

Respondent: Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

1B The Self in Byzantine Poetry

Chair: Derek Krueger

  • “Autobiography or Autography: Seeking the True Self in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poemata de seipso”
    Suzanne Abrams Rebillard, Ithaca, NY
  • “Ephrem’s Economic ‘I’ and the Problem of Early Byzantine Authorship” Jeffrey Wickes, Saint Louis University
  • “Blindness and Self-Recognition in Nonnos of Panopolis’ Metaphrasis of John 9”
    Scott F. Johnson, Georgetown University and Dumbarton Oaks
  • “Social and Personal Self in Tzetzes’ Chiliades”
    Aglae Pizzone, University of Geneva
  • “Depictions of the Self in the Poems of Manuel Philes”
    Marina Bazzani, University of Oxford

11:30-11:45 AM-Coffee Break

11:45AM-1:15PM-Session 2
2A The Emperor and the Church, Part One

Chair:

  • “Theodosius II and the First Council of Ephesus”
    George Bevan, Queen’s University
  • “When the Emperor Changed his Mind”
    Patrick Gray, York University
  • “Victory Over the Enemy of the Church: The Empire, the Church and the Council of Nicaea”
    Edward Mason, University of Kentucky
2B Byzantine Monumental Art

Chair:

  • “The Economy of Salvation at the Red Monastery Church, Upper Egypt”
    Elizabeth Bolman, Temple University
  • “Painting and Ideology in 14th-Century Mistras: The Iconographic Program of the Gallery in the Virgin Hodegetria”
    Nektarios Zarras, The University of the Aegean
  • “The Protevangelium of James and the wall mosaics in the (Justinianic?) Eufrasiana”
    Thomas E Schweigert, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

1:15-2:15 P.M.- Lunch

2:15-3:45 P.M.-Session 3
3A Erōs and Logos: Sexual Desire in Byzantine Literature

Chair: Margaret Mullett, Dumbarton Oaks

  • “What Love Is This?: Divine Fantasy in Symeon the New Theologian’s Erotes”
    Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • “Inventive Logos, Coercive Erōs: The Poetics of Passion in Eustathios Makrembolites’ Hysmine and Hysminias”
    Christina Christoforatou, Baruch College, CUNY
  • “Furtive Eros, Thieving Aphrodite: Transgressive Desire in the Cycle of Agathias”
    Steven D. Smith, Hofstra University
3B Two Columns and a Stylite

Chair: Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Johns Hopkins University

  • “The Narrative Reconfiguration of an Imperial Monument: How the Bronze Horseman Became Heraclius”
    Elena N. Boeck, DePaul University
  • “Pillars of the Community: Stylites as Architecture”
    Shannon Steiner, Bryn Mawr College

3:45-4:00 P.M.- Coffee Break

4:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M- Session 4
4A Byzantine Women

Chair: Alice-Mary Talbot, Dumbarton Oaks

  • “Early Byzantine Sarcophagi and the Iconography of Educated Susanna”
    Catherine C. Taylor, Brigham Young University
  • “East and West Marry: Considering Translatio as Women’s Work in Bridging Mediterranean Empire”
    Megan Moore, University of Missouri
  • “From the Imperial Palace to the Province: The Early Formation of Byzantine Marriage Ritual”
    Gabriel Radle, Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Dumbarton Oaks
  • “Motherhood in Late Byzantium: Blessing, purification and penitential rites pertaining to childbirth and child loss”
    Nina Glibetic, Yale University
4B Objects in Context: Material Spatiality and Byzantine Textiles
Sponsored by The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture

Co-chairs: Jennifer Ball, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY; Gudrun Buehl, Dumbarton Oaks; and Elizabeth Williams, Dumbarton Oaks

  • “‘Numerous Escort’: Liturgical Objects in Concert during the Late Byzantine Great Entrance”
    Tera Lee Hedrick, Northwestern University
  • “Shaping Experience: Curtains and Veils in Middle and Late Byzantium”
    Maria G. Parani, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
  • “Furnishing the Household Memory Theater in Late Antiquity”
    Thelma K. Thomas, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
  • “Woven Architecture and the Early Byzantine Sense of Human Space”
    Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Johns Hopkins University

6:10-7:30 Reception (co-sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture)

7:30-9:00 Keynote Speech
Segal Building, 500 Granville Street

Saturday, November 8, 2014

9:00AM-11:00 AM Session 5
5A Byzantines and Latins

Chair: Teresa Shawcross, Princeton University

  • “Greek Scripts and Latin Elites: (Re)Presenting Byzantine Lordship in Pre-Norman Southern Italy”
    Norman Underwood, University of California-Berkeley
  • “Symbiosis: The Survival of Greek Christianity in the Norman Kingdom of Sicily”
    Frank McGough, The Ohio State University
  • “Socio-Economic Continuity and Political Unity in Frankish Achaea, 1204-1259”
    Kevin Bloomfield, The Ohio State University
  • “Fleeing the Image Breakers: Ecclesiastical Refugees in Italy”
    Joseph Western, Saint Louis University
5B Byzantine Art

Chair: Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

  • “Divinely-Mandated Regime Change: Elijah and “Macedonian” Dynastic Ideology in the Paris Gregory”
    Christopher Timm, Florida State University
  • “They Who First Are Granted the Divine Enlightenment: Angels, Translucency, and Light in Byzantine Art”
    Magdalene Bethge Breidenthal, Yale University
  • “Epigrams and the Presentation of Relics in the Middle Byzantine Period”
    Brad Hostetler, Florida State University
  • “A Reinterpretation of Silk in the Middle Byzantine Period”
    Julia Galliker, University of Birmingam, UK

11:00-11:15 A.M.-Coffee Break

11:15 A.M.- 1:15- Session 6
6A Byzantine Texts and Textuality

Chair: Stephen Reinert, Rutgers University

  • “Praise of a Teacher or Periautology?: Theodore II Laskaris’ Self-Representation in the Encomium of George Akropolites”
    Aleksandar Jovanović, Simon Fraser University
  • “Teaching Methods and Educational Practice in the Eleventh Century” Sergei Mariev, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
  • “Byzantinophilia in the Letters of Grigor Magistros Pahwaluni?”
    Anna Linden Weller, Rutgers University
  • “Rethinking the biography of Anna Komnene”
    Leonora Neville, University of Wisconsin Madison
6B The Eloquence of Art: Session Dedicated to Henry Maguire

Chair: Rossitza B. Schroeder, Graduate Theological Union

  • “King David Narratives in the Dura-Europos Synagogue”
    Kära L. Schenk, Austin, TX
  • “New Evidence for Middle-Byzantine Court Dress: The Clasp from Tahancha”
    Warren T. Woodfin, Queens College, CUNY
  • “The Kanon for “He who is at the Point of Death” and its Iconography in Leimonos MS 295”
    Vasileios Marinis, Yale University
  • “A Byzantine Cameo and the Rhetoric of Paradise”
    James A. Magruder, III, Johns Hopkins University

1:15-3:15 P.M. Business Lunch

3:15-4:45 Session 7
7A Audience and Intent: Patrons and Innovation in Church Fresco Iconography

Chair: Erica Cruikshank Dodd

  • “Jaroslav I’s Political Ideology in the Northern Chapels of Saint Sophia, Kiev”
    Sarah C. Simmons, Florida State University
  • “And their eyes were opened: the perceptions of Christ’s Miracle Cycle in the early Palaiologan period”
    Maria Alessia Rossi, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
  • “Antiquarianism in Late Byzantine Mystras”
    Andrea Mattiello, University of Birmingham, UK
7B The Emperor and the Church, Part Two

Chair:

  • “What Was the Council in Trullo?”
    David Olster, University of Kentucky
  • “Bishop and Imperial Court, 350-430 CE: Tracing Patterns of Social Interaction across Multiple Letter Collections”
    Adam M. Schor, University of South Carolina
  • “Emperor and Church Politics, 484-518: The Eastern Reception of Papal Primacy Claims”
    Dana Iuliana Viezure, Seton Hall University

4:45-5:00 P.M. – Coffee Break

5:00-7:00 P.M.-Session 8
8A. Cultural Exchange in the Frankish Levant (Sponsored by the International Center for Medieval Art –ICMA)

Chair: Cecily Hilsdale, McGill University

  • “Spaces of Encounter and Plurality: Architectural Transformation at the Sanctuary of St. George in Lydda”
    Heather A. Badamo, University of Chicago
  • “The Authority of Place and the Church of the Nativity”
    Lisa Mahoney, DePaul University
  • “Jerusalem as ‘Middle Ground’: Eastern Christian Art and Identity in the Crusader Period”
    Glenn Peers, University of Texas at Austin
  • “‘Lest some discord arise’:The Resafa Heraldry Cup at the Siege of Acre” Richard A. Leson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
8B Byzantine Theology and Worship

Chair: Geoffrey Greatrex, University of Ottawa

  • “Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite’s Festival Rhetoric: Theoria at the Dormition”
    Byron MacDougall, Brown University
  • “Repentant Demons in Medieval Syrian Orthodox Thought”
    Elizabeth Anderson, Yale University
  • “Bishops Behaving Badly: The Life and Times of Theophilus of Alexandria”
    Young Richard Kim, Calvin College
  • “Polemics and Emperors in Theodoret’s Ecclesiastical History”
    Joseph J Reidy, Saint Louis University
  • “Pulcheria Redivivus: The Cult of the Virgin and the Nestorian Controversy”
    Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon

7:30-10:00 Reception at The Bill Reid Gallery 8:30 Second Board Meeting

Sunday, November 9, 2014

9:00 A.M-12:00 P.M. Session 9
9A Byzantine Monks and Saints

Chair: Alexander Angelov, College of William and Mary

  • “Monks, Monasteries and Holy Mountains: the Monastic Topography of Byzantine Thrace (10th-14th centuries)”
    George Makris, University of Birmingham
  • “Picnics, Processions, and Panegyreis in The Miracles of Thekla”
    Linda Honey, Millarville, Alberta CA
  • “Nature and Conflict in Byzantine Lakonia”
    Alexander Olson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • “Theodoros Balsamon’s Monks: Byzantine Monasticism in the Commentaries on the Canons”
    Hannah Ewing, Rollins College
9B Byzantine Archaeology and Numismatics

Chair: Kostis Kourelis, Franklin & Marshall College

  • “Constantinople’s Gate to the Mediterranean World: An Archaeological Study of the Harbor of Theodosius in Yenikapı”
    Ayşe Ercan, Columbia University
  • “Transition or Decline? Hierapytna and Crete in the Seventh Century A.D.”
    Scott Gallimore, Wilfrid Laurier University
  • “The Imperial Image Imprinted: Circulation, Materiality, and Translation in Kievan Coinage, c. 988-1240”
    Alexandra Kelebay, McGill University
  • “A Matter of Degree: A Re-Assessment of the Evidence for Urban Continuity Despite Disruption in Seventh-Century Byzantium”
    Daniel J. E. Kelly, St. John’s University
9C Byzance après Byzance: Byzantine Hues in the Cultural and Historical Canvas of the Modern Balkans

Chairs: Dimitris Krallis, Simon Fraser University, and Thomas Kuehn, Simon Fraser University

  • “Resurrecting the (Byzantine?) Law: State Formation and Legal Debates in Nineteenth Century Greece”
    Evdoxios Doxiadis, Simon Fraser University
  • “Between Culture and Politics: Identity, the Balkan Enlightenment, and the Greek War of Independence”
    Alex Tipei, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • “Resisting the West, Excluding the Byzantine: The Heritage of Turkey’s Heritage Institutions”
    Daniel David Shoup, Oakland, California

CFP: ASEC 2015 at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee

Leaf from a Hilandar Monastery Slavic Manuscript

Leaf from a Hilandar Monastery Slavic Manuscript 71

Association for the Study of
Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc. (ASEC)
Call for Papers
Sixth Biennial Conference
Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
September 18-19, 2015
(Pre-conference reception on the evening of September 17)
The Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture is pleased to invite scholars of all disciplines working in Slavic, Eurasian, and East European studies to submit proposals for individual papers and panels for its biennial conference, to be held at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, and The Westin Memphis Beale Street Hotel.Scholars from the U.S.and around the world are welcome.All participants must be members of ASEC.
Proposals for individual papers and panels should be submitted by email to Dr. Randall Poole, Acting Vice President of ASEC (rpoole@css.edu) no later than December 1, 2014.All proposals should include:
–Participant name, affiliation, and email contact information                                  
–For individual papers:title and brief description (50-75 words)                            
–For panels: panel title + above information for each participant and discussant (if applicable).
Limited funding is available to provide graduate students with assistance for travel expenses.  General information regarding the hotel and meeting, and the conference registration form, will be available after October 1, 2014, on the following website of Rhodes College:
Image Source: Hilandar Research Library slide from Hilandar Monastery Slavic Manuscript 71
Text Source: ASEC listserv, moderated by ASEC Secretary, Eugene Clay
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