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Spatial Paths to Holiness: New Dissertation at Uppsala University!

Posted on September 4, 2020 by nordbyz

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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Interview: Annalinden Weller

Posted on October 3, 2017 by nordbyz

The two-year postdoc in Text and Narrative in Byzantium at Uppsala University is over, and Annalinden Weller is leaving Sweden after two productive years that were concluded with a conference on Reception Histories of the Future in August 2017. As … Continue reading →

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Summer Sequel: Three Roads to Miklagård

Posted on June 30, 2017 by nordbyz

Brigid Ehrmantraut from Princeton University has been generous to offer her recent essay on Scandinavian mercenaries in Constantinople as a reading feuilleton for the Nordic Byzantine Network. Before we do so, we are happy to have Brigid’s attention for a few … Continue reading →

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Reading and Pleasure in Istanbul

Posted on June 7, 2016 by nordbyz

The Summer school “Reading Pleasure – Pleasure Reading: Medieval Approaches to Reading” took place at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 23-28 May, and was organized by Christian Høgel and Ingela Nilsson. This was a professionally rewarding experience for all … Continue reading →

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Kurs vid Newmaninstitutet i Uppsala

Posted on May 28, 2016 by nordbyz

Newmaninstitutet i Uppsala ger kursen Ortodoxa ikoner i modern litteratur (7,5 hp) senare delen av höstterminen 2016 (7/11 2016 – 13/1 2017). Den går på halvdistans med undervisning i Uppsala två heldagar, 23/11 och 14/12. Den planeras också gå lokalt i Uppsala … Continue reading →

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Chronicles as Literature at the Crossroad of Past and Present

Posted on May 10, 2016 by nordbyz

In the last days of April, Munich was the venue for a conference devoted to Byzantine historiography, and more specifically to ways of writing it and ways of reading it. The city of Karl Krumbacher, whose portrait the participants had the opportunity to … Continue reading →

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Allt ljus på Psellos

Posted on June 28, 2015 by nordbyz

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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New postdoc at Uppsala University

Posted on June 1, 2015 by nordbyz

Uppsala is happy to welcome Annalinden Weller as participant in and coordinator of the collaborative research network Text and narrative in Byzantium (Texte et récit à Byzance). For more info, see http://www.grekiska.net/byzantine-narrative Annalinden will work on methods of preserving and negotiating Byzantine culture, power, … Continue reading →

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Ideologies and Identities in the Medieval Byzantine World (Vienna, April 16-17, 2015)

Posted on April 19, 2015 by nordbyz

As part of a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) investigating the ideology of the lower strata in the Byzantine Empire, a two-day workshop devoted to the same and overlapping topics brought together scholars from Austria, France, Britain, … Continue reading →

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Tzetzes i nyöversättning

Posted on April 7, 2015 by nordbyz

Det var på uppdrag av kejsarinnan Eirene alias Bertha von Sulzbach (c. 1110-59) som den idoge bysantinske poeten Johannes Tzetzes på medeltida alexandriner tog upp kampen med de antika hexametrarna och förfärdigade en tolkning av Iliaden där de homeriska gudarna blir till allegorier för … Continue reading →

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