Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	709
Title	Moving Byzantium, III: Religious and Political Crises as Triggers for Mobility
Date/Time	Tuesday 4 July 2017: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	Wittgenstein-Prize Project 'Moving Byzantium: Mobility, Microstructures & Personal Agency', Universität Wien / Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser	Claudia Rapp, Institut für Byzantinistik & Neogräzistik, Universität Wien / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair	Ekaterini Mitsiou, Independent Scholar, Wien
Paper 709-a	Moving Byzantium from Rome?: Comparing 8th- and 9th-Century Anti-Iconoclast Migration (Language: English) Philipp Winterhager, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Ecclesiastical History; Religious Life; Social History
Paper 709-b	Byzantine Jewry between East and West: Shemarya of Negroponte and His Scholarly Network (Language: English) Saskia Dönitz, Institut für Judaistik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Language and Literature - Semitic; Philosophy
Paper 709-c	Moving Society: The Byzantine Balkans in the First Half of the 13th Century (Language: English) Dejan Dželebdžić, Institute for Byzantine Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Beograd Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Charters and Diplomatics; Daily Life; Social History
Abstract	The project Moving Byzantium highlights the role of Byzantium as a global culture and analyses the internal flexibility of Byzantine society. It aims to contribute to a re-evaluation of a society and culture that has traditionally been depicted as stiff, rigid, and encumbered by its own tradition. This will be achieved by the exploration of issues of mobility, microstructures, and personal agency. In this session, religious communities and theological conflict as well as political crisis as background and motives for mobility will be discussed on the basis of known and new documentary evidence from the middle and late Byzantine period.