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Category Archives: publications
Spatial Paths to Holiness: New Dissertation at Uppsala University!
Myrto Veikou has handed in her doctoral dissertation for the traditional “spikning” at Uppsala University: “Spatial paths to holiness: Literary ‘lived spaces’ in eleventh-century Byzantine saints’ lives”. The dissertation will be defended on September 26 with Stephanos Efthymiadis as faculty … Continue reading
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Two new books
Five years after the NBN workshop The Straits – Inquiries into a Crossroad took place at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, and thanks to the great efforts of its new director Ingela Nilsson, we are proud to present the outcome … Continue reading
Lecture and twofold book release
On October 4, Prof. Dame Averil Cameron gave the 2018 Lennart Rydén lecture at SCAS. It was followed by a discussion panel with prof. Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Björn Wittrock (former SCAS director) and Olof Heilo (Swedish Research Institute in … Continue reading
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New volume in the series Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia!
We present to you Storytelling in Byzantium: Narratological approaches to Byzantine texts and images, edited by Charis Messis, Margaret Mullet and Ingela Nilsson! At the same time, we take the opportunity to inform about earlier studies in the series that … Continue reading
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Tagged Eumathios Makrembolites, images, narrative, rhetoric, St. Andrew the fool, storytelling
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Dumbarton Oaks Publications
Summer sale: free downloadable 6-volume catalogue of Byzantine seals and 20% off paperback editions! Dumbarton Oaks is happy to make the 6-volume catalogue of Byzantine lead seals in the collections of Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art freely … Continue reading
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Två nya böcker och lite sommarunderhållning
Leonora Neville, historiker vid University of Wisconsin-Madison, hör till de verkligt produktiva bysantinologerna just nu. Knappt hann hennes utmärkta bok om Anna Komnena komma ut (2016), så kommer ännu en bok, nu en guide till bysantinsk historieskrivning. Medan boken om … Continue reading
New issue of Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
In volume 3 (2017), the editor Vassilios Sabatakakis is happy to welcome a guest-editor, Dr AnnaLinden Weller, who has edited five articles from a conference that she organized at Uppsala University in 2016 within the frame of the ‘Text and … Continue reading
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Byzantine News
From now on, the AIEB will communicate through a newsletter called “Byzantine News”. Its aim is to facilitate information exchange among Byzantine scholars worldwide and function as an information hub, i.e. by receiving and distributing news and information about activities … Continue reading
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Byzantine spaces
Uppsala University is happy to host the conference “From the Human Body to the Universe: Spatialities of Byzantine Culture” on May 18-21, 2017. More info here. The arranger is Myrto Veikou, whose recent article on the topic was published in the last … Continue reading