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Byzantine spaces

Posted on April 29, 2017 by

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 →

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Mer Miklagård

Posted on October 26, 2016 by

De två volymer om vikingar och Bysans som Fedir Androschuk förestått inom serien Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia har nyligen belönats med en recension av Rune Edberg som vi här tar tillfället att länka till.

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Ny serie om vikingaflicka i Miklagård

Posted on September 14, 2016 by

Läsare av Dagens ETC har sedan i somras kunnat följa den äventyrliga vikingaflickan Siris resa till Miklagård i form av Patric Nyströms och Per Demervalls nya seriealbum Siri och vikingarna, utgivet av Rabén & Sjögren (2016). I följetongsformatet publiceras en … Continue reading →

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Byzantium and the Viking World

Posted on March 11, 2016 by

In February, Uppsala University was proud to host a book release for the publication of Byzantium and the Viking World (eds. Fedir Androschuk, Jonathan Shepard and Monica White), the outcome of a fruitful cooperation that some of our readers may recall from … Continue reading →

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Christmas reading – new book by network member!

Posted on December 14, 2015 by

If you haven’t decided what to read over the holidays, the Nordic network can warmly recommend a new book. Olof Heilo has written a highly interesting and important monograph on Byzantium as a key to understanding the rise of islam, Eastern … Continue reading →

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Networks of Learning

Posted on July 22, 2015 by

A new volume in the German series Byzantinische Studien und Texte and edited by Sita Steckel, Niels Gaul and Michael Grünbart puts focus on Medieval scholarly networks across the Graeco-Latin divide: http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90457-7 Ingela Nilsson has reviewed the book for the German online journal … Continue reading →

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Allt ljus på Psellos

Posted on June 28, 2015 by

Tyska ARD gör lite oväntat reklam för en bysantinsk författare. Litteraturkritikern Denis Scheck har läst Psellos (i den som alltid rekommenderliga tyska Tusculum-utgåvan) och fascinerats av den konstantinopolitanske hovmannens berättarkonst: http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Druckfrisch/Denis-Scheck-empfiehlt-Michael-Psellos/Das-Erste/Video?documentId=28977452&bcastId=339944 En glädjande nyhet inte minst med tanke på det nya projektet i … Continue reading →

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