2nd Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival

2nd Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival

https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/2nd-online-edinburgh-byzantine-book-festival

9-12 March 2023

The Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival is the first of its kind as a way to learn about recently published books on any area of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (AD ca.300–ca.1500), including literature, history, archaeology, and material culture. The Festival is an online event, allowing attendees from all over the world to join in. It holds every two years in order to promote a wider understanding and awareness of Byzantine scholarship in a spirit of collegiality. It is also intended to encourage future collaborations and networking among the various presenters and attendees.

The 2nd Online Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival includes volumes published in 2021 and 2022, and forthcoming books with an estimated publication date no later than June 2023. It features monographs published in English, French, German, Italian, and Turkish.

Please see below the programme:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/atoms/files/programme-2nd_byzantine_festival.pdf

Registration via Eventbrite:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2nd-online-edinburgh-byzantine-book-festival-tickets-525434176767

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

Diogenes Journal, Winter Issue 2022-2023

To whom it may concern,

On behalf of the general editors of the “Diogenes” Journal from the University of Birmingham, I would like to notify you that “Diogenes” is accepting contributions for the Winter Issue 2022-2023. For more information see the attach below.
Could you please advertise this on your website?
Many thanks in advance!
Have a lovely rest of the week!
With kindest regards,
Jacopo Marcon
PhD Researcher, ITSEE, University of Birmingham
Wissenschaft. Mittarbeiter, BBAW

Medieval World: Culture & Conflict

Medieval World: Culture & Conflict

(@MedievalWorldCC)

A new magazine about the Middle Ages – Medieval World: Culture & Conflict – launched in May 2022. Published by Karwansaray Publishers, this project features the rich history and material culture of the Middle Ages, broadly conceived geographically and temporally. The magazine is published every two months in full color, both in print and online. It is distributed worldwide.

The articles are written by leading scholars and early career researchers in various fields of study. Each issue centers on a theme that provides detailed coverage of a particular topic from historical, art historical, archaeological, and literary standpoints, among others, as well as special articles on issues of daily life, legends, key figures, events, and monuments from the Middle Ages.

In addition to the excellent written content, the articles are illustrated with images of sites and objects from collections around the world, as well as original maps, drawings, and paintings. Accessibly written and splendidly illustrated, this publication highlights the value of textual and visual records in reconstructing the multifaceted historical and cultural dimensions of the Middle Ages.

In response to current events, the second issue of the magazine focuses on the history, art, and culture of Kyivan Rus. It includes a historical overview of the region, and covers important figures and buildings, like Yaroslav the Wise and his famed cathedral of St. Sophia, the Kyivan Caves Monastery, the coins and writing of early Rus, military saints, and the interactions with the Mongols.

The theme-related articles are:

  • Christian Raffensperger, “The Medieval Kingdom of Kyivan Rus: Expansive and Well-Connected,” 14-22.
  • Mike Markowitz, “The Coinage of Kyivan Rus: Byzantine Models and Local Adaptations,” 23.
  • Adrian Jusupović, “Bookmen, Scribes, and Literates: Writing in Rus between 1000-1400,” 24-27.
  • Donald Ostrowski, “The Mongol Campaigns in Rus in 1252: Searching for the Kniaginia,” 28-35.
  • Özlem Eren, “A Cathedral and Its Patron: Yaroslav the Wise and Saint Sophia in Kyiv,” 36-39.
  • Charles J. Halperin, “Kyivan Rus and the Mongols: Hostility and Accommodation,” 40-43.
  • Monica White, “Protective Warriors: Military Saints from Byzantium to Rus,” 44-47.

You can find more details about this new publication here. If you would like to contribute an article or a news piece, or suggest themes for future issues, please be in touch. Each author who contributes receives an honorarium for their time, effort, and expertise.

Alice Isabella Sullivan, PhD

Editor, Medieval World: Culture & Conflict

editor@medievalworldmagazine.com

Analecta Stagorum et Meteororum

Dear colleagues,

I have pleasure in letting you know that the first issue of the new journal “Analekta Stagon kai Meteoron/Analecta Stagorum et Meteororum” was recently published. An initiative of the Diocesan Academy of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Stagoi and Meteora, the journal seeks to present and illuminate various unknown or little known aspects of the historical, spiritual and material heritage of the local Church, the Meteora monasteries and, by extension, north-west Thessaly as a whole, as a centre of historical developments and a sphere of intercultural interaction. It aspires to inaugurate new directions in the study of the multifaceted heritage of Meteora, primarily through interdisciplinarity and the variety of subjects accommodated. Our inaugural issue is bilingual and printed in full colour.

On behalf of the editorial team,

Nikolaos Vryzidis

Details follow below:

Analekta Stagon kai Meteoron – Analecta Stagorum et Meteororum 1 (2022), ISSN: 2944-9022, 430 p., 30 €

1. ΣΥΜΕΩΝ ΟΥΡΕΣΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΟΛΟΓΟΣ, ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΤΡΙΚΑΛΩΝ (with French précis)

Brendan Osswald

2. THESSALY UNDER THE SERBS (1348 – c. 1373) (with Greek précis)
Maja Nikolić

3. ΠΡΟΣΩΠΑ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΠΟΙ ΣΤΟΝ ΒΙΟ ΤΩΝ ΟΣΙΩΝ ΝΕΚΤΑΡΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΨΑΡΑΔΩΝ (with English précis)
Demetrios Agoritsas

4. THE MONASTERIES OF METEORA DURING THE OTTOMAN PERIOD AND THE PRACTICE OF MONASTIC CONFINEMENT  (with Greek précis)

Elif Bayraktar Tellan

5. ΒΗΜΟΘΥΡΟ ΣΤΗ ΜΟΝΗ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΟΥ ΑΠΟΔΙΔΟΜΕΝΟ ΣΤΟΝ ΘΕΟΦΑΝΗ ΤΟΝ ΚΡΗΤΑ (with English précis)
Paraskevi Papademetriou

6. THE ARTISTIC ACTIVITY OF THEOPHANES ΤΗΕ CRETAN IN WESTERN THESSALY AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE “CRETAN SCHOOL” OF PAINTING IN OTTOMAN GREECE (with Greek précis)
Konstantinos M. Vapheiades

7. RECREATING A SOCIETY’S MATERIAL CULTURE: TEXTILES IN THE TRIKKE CODEX EBE 1471 (with Greek précis)
Nikolaos Vryzidis

8. FROM THE ORTHODOX MEGALOPOLIS OF MOSCOVY OF GREAT RUSSIA: RUSSIAN HEIRLOOMS FROM THE MONASTERY OF TATARNA, SIXTEENTH -SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES (with Greek précis)
Yuliana Boycheva (with an appendix by Daria Resh)

9. Η ΕΠΙΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΣΤΑΣΗ ΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΜΟΣΧΟΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΩΝ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΡΥΔΑΛΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΡΗΤΟΡΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ 18º ΑΙΩΝΑ (with English précis)
Elias Tempelis

Academia.edu account: https://independent.academia.edu/AnalectaStagorumetMeteororum

Distribution: Tsigaridas Books (orders@tsigaridasbooks.gr).

Dumbarton Oaks Papers Announcement

Via Colin Whiting and Nikos Kontogiannis, Dumbarton Oaks

21 March 2022

Dear friends and colleagues,

Greetings from Washington, DC! We have some exciting news about Dumbarton Oaks Papers that we would like to share with you.

First, DOP will now appear on JSTOR shortly after volumes are published. There is no longer a three-year delay! Last year’s volume, DOP 75 (2021), is already available: https://www.jstor.org/stable/e27107147.

Second is that we are now encouraging shorter submissions. For many years, DOP has served as a venue for long pieces on Byzantine topics, typically 10,000 words or more. The journal is, however, uniquely positioned to respond to the changing needs of the field by making itself a venue for the best of all Byzantine scholarship, no matter the length—and we certainly do not want to miss out on new and exciting work. So if you have a shorter piece, please consider submitting it to DOP! These shorter submissions might be concise but particularly outstanding studies; discussions or reinterpretations of significant archaeological material; or studies of objects in the Dumbarton Oaks collections. For more information on submitting, please visit https://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/series/dumbarton-oaks-papers.

Best wishes,

 

Colin Whiting

Nikos Kontogiannis

 

Editors, Dumbarton Oaks Papers

CFP – The Architecture of Medieval Port Cities: Italy and the Mediterranean

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Convivium X/1, 2023 thematic issue:
The Architecture of Medieval Port Cities: Italy and the Mediterranean

Edited by Sarah K. Kozlowski (The Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History) and Kristen Streahle (Hollins University)

Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022
Deadline for manuscripts: 31 August 2022
Deadline for complete articles: 31 January 2023

Recent scholarship has explored port cities of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean—from the Iberian peninsula, to Italy and North Africa, to the Levant—as complex sites of artistic encounter, exchange, and mobility. In dialogue with current research on the movement of artworks, materials, and people across the Mediterranean world, we invite art and architectural historians, archeologists, and historians to consider the forms and cultural dynamics of port cities themselves. These natural and built environments both configure relationships between land, sea, and the world beyond, and create unique spatial, cultural, social, and economic conditions for artistic production and transformation.

Building upon research presented in “Architecture and Mediation in Medieval Mediterranean Port Cities,” a panel held at the Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians in Spring 2020, the co-editors will bring together a collection of essays in a special issue of the journal Convivium, which will be published in April 2023.

Two lines of questioning animate the project. First, how do the physical and material forms of port cities configure and even thematize relationships between land and sea, arrival and departure, openness and closure? Along this line of questioning, we invite contributions that treat topics including but not limited to:

– the design and construction of port infrastructure in relation to hydro-topographic organization;

– ports and their cities as parts of larger systems of borders and frontiers, including strategies of closure, obstruction, and delay (for example, harbor chains, towers, and quarantine stations);

– architectural responses to natural disasters such as disease, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions; and

– urban planning, architectural design and materials, and programs of ornament that figure relationships between a port city and the broader cultural and economic
networks of which it is part.

Second, how do the natural, built, and social environments of port cities mediate and shape artistic circulation and exchange? Contributors may approach this question through investigations of:

– social and legal mechanisms for the movement of artists, architects, builders, engineers, and workshops;

– patterns and logistics in the transport of materials;

– mediums of knowledge transfer such as drawings, model books, and plans;

– representations of port cities in maps, illuminated manuscripts, mercantile handbooks, and travel accounts; and

– topographical, functional, and social dynamics between a city’s port and its neighborhoods of artisans and artists.

We welcome contributions that focus on these and other questions related to the architecture of port cities of the Italian peninsula and islands, as well as Italian port cities within the context of broader Mediterranean networks, circa 700–1600 CE. We encourage investigations of understudied connections between Italy and the wider world (for example, between Italy and northern Africa) as well as new approaches to well-studied connections. Our aim is to assemble a constellation of essays that relate to and converse with each other geographically, chronologically, thematically, and methodologically, presenting the very latest research in the field and opening new avenues for future work.

Further information on: http://www.earlymedievalstudies.com/convivium.html

Submission: Abstracts of 500–600 words should be sent to Sarah Kozlowski and Kristen Streahle (ConviviumX1@gmail.com). After acceptance of an abstract by the editors, the manuscript of the article will be submitted to a process of double-blind peer review.

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