Nr. 29 (2015)
Austrian Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies
Research and publications report for the year 2015
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A blog on ideology and identity research in Byzantium, Late Antiquity and Medieval Europe
Saturday, 7 March 2015
Friday, 6 March 2015
Sunday, 1 March 2015
ByzIDeo International Workshop - Program
VIENNA APRIL 16-17, 2015
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Dave Pearson_Sailing to Byzantium |
The preliminary version of the workshop program is now online
Monday, 9 February 2015
Monday, 12 January 2015
Paper tip!
Walter Pohl, “Romanness: a multiple identity and its changes”, Early Medieval Europe 22/4 (2014) 406–418
In the often controversial debates about early medieval ethnicity and
identities, Romanness has received little attention. But it should, because it
is a particularly interesting case of the transformations of identity. What did
it mean to be Roman after Rome? Early medieval Roman identities could be civic,
regional, imperial, religious, cultural, legal or military; by
selfidentification or by outside ascription; they could constitute one facet in
a complex web of affiliations, or a stubbornly maintained point of reference
for the survival of a community. The ‘Byzantine’ empire, the city of Rome, the
Catholic church, an educated elite or a regional population could provide foci
of post-Roman Romanness in the west. Romans could be counted as one gens among others,
or still measured by their imperial pretences. These ambivalences about Roman
identity are not simply a result of the fall of the western empire. Numerous
recent studies have dealt with the significance of Romanness in antiquity, and
have shown that this was a paradoxical construction from the start, creating a
wide variety of ways to be Roman. At times, Romanness was also ethnicized,
although usually its political, legal and cultural definitions were in the
forefront. The present contribution sketches some ways in which the classical
multiplicity of romanitas affected its early medieval development.
Sunday, 14 December 2014
International Workshop!
“Social”
Profiles and “Social” Groups:
Perceptions
about Social Position in Byzantium
Athens, Friday
19 December 2014
Institute
of Historical Research • National Hellenic Research Foundation
“Society” is a modern term that relates to the ensemble of relations among people and among distinct “social” groups. Even though in Byzantium the perception of “society” was comprised in the term “Rhomaion politeia”, the Byzantines had their own theories regarding the “position” that separate groups occupied in “society”. Definitions vary according to the point of view: an individual might be defined according to state (“constitutional”) rules within the space one lives and within the community one moves, which can be large e.g. within the palatine hierarchy, or can be quite narrow, e.g. within a village; but an individual is also defined according to perceptions that are maintained about one’s position e.g. the perceptions about descend (eugeneia, dysgeneia), or wealth, or about distinct professional groups (agrotai, pragmateutai, technitai etc) and according to perceptions that one projects about himself and his own position (e.g. one’s perception about the importance of his noble ancestry). The profiles that are thus formed are quite different from one another and affect the relations of people and groups among them. 
This divergence is the subject that will be discussed in the proposed workshop. With the purpose of sketching separate group profiles in Byzantium, of detecting definitions, self-definitions and definitions of the “other” that compose the social image of people and groups, separate protypes, social roles, hierarchies and structures will be investigated, which determine the position of people and groups in the byzantine society.Saturday, 22 November 2014
International Workshop!
27.-28.
November 2014
Institut
für Mittelalterforschung • Wohllebengasse 12-14
1040
Wien
Seminarraum • Erdgeschoss
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