Tag Archives: middle-byzantine era

Nordic Tales, Byzantine Paths, and a visit to Gotland

Posted on November 15, 2022 by nordbyz

In 2019, when we all thought that the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies would take place in Istanbul in August 2021, the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul was approached by Buket Kitapçı Bayrı of the Tukish Committee for Byzantine … Continue reading →

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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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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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Två föredrag på Medelhavsmuséet i Stockholm

Posted on January 26, 2015 by nordbyz

Den 27 januari kl 18:00 talar Ingela Nilsson på temat Buddha i Bysans: Legenden om Barlaam och Joasaf. Denna bysantinska hagiografi – i vilken berättelsen om Buddha för första gången återges för kristna läsare – har översatts av Barbro Styrenius och kommer att … Continue reading →

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Nya evenemang i Uppsala

Posted on November 9, 2014 by nordbyz

På onsdag den 12 november föreläser Paolo Cesaretti under titeln “Andreas Salos – ten years after”. Föreläsningen handlar om den helige dåren Andreas vita och forskningsläget i kölvattnet efter Lennart Rydéns viktiga arbete. Cesaretti var själv doktorand i Uppsala på … Continue reading →

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Byzantium and the Arab World: a two-day seminar in Uppsala (September 18-19, 2014)

Posted on September 26, 2014 by nordbyz

The increasing interest in the formative role of the Byzantine Empire to Christian Europe can perhaps only be matched by the booming market of studies on the rise of Islam. Since the two historical topics are intertwined for a period of some two … Continue reading →

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