The following is a preliminary schedule of the Byzantine Studies Conference 2000.
THURSDAY, 26 OCTOBER | |
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8:00 pm |
Reception |
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8:30- |
Welcome | |
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9:00 am |
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9:00- |
Session One: Byzantine Walls and Fortifications |
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10:45 am |
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Chair: Clive Foss (University of Massachusetts, Boston) | ||
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Asen Kirin (The University
of
Georgia, Athens): The Fortification Walls of the City of
Serdica:
From Constantine the Great to Murad I | ||
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Reinhold Schumann (Boston
University): Manpower and Fortifications. Regional Defense and
Military Expansion in Byzantine Southern Italy in the Time of
Basil
II (died 1025) | ||
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Veronica G. Kalas
(Institute of
Fine Arts, NYU): Building Out: Fortification Walls and the
Cappadocian Countryside | ||
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Walter K. Hanak (Shepherd
College): The Gates of Saint Romanos and the Main Breach:
Controversy and Disagreement in Modern Scholarship | ||
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Marios Philippides (University of
Massachusetts, Amherst): The Siege of Constantinople in
1453:
Fortifications and Defense | ||
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9:00- |
Session Two: Church
Decoration | |
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10:45 am |
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Chair: Ellen C. Schwartz (Eastern
Michigan University) | |
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Daniel Caraher (Ohio State
University): To Whom It May Concern: The Spatial Component
of
Inscribed Prayers in Fifth and Sixth Century Greek
Churches | ||
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Caroline Downing (SUNY
Potsdam):
An Ascension from the Episcopal Basilica Narthex at Stobi,
Macedonia | ||
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Rossitza B. Roussanova
(University of Maryland): The Image of Christ Emmanuel in
the
Dome of Karanlik Kilise | |
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Sharon E.J. Gerstel
(University
of Maryland): Ceramic Icons from Medieval
Constantinople | ||
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Irene Nikoleishvili
(Tbilisi
State University): Early (6th-10th centuries) Examples of
the
Scenes of Doomsday in the Georgian Relieves | ||
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11:00 am- |
Session Three:
Proto-Byzantine
North Africa | |
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12:00 noon |
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Chair: Susan T. Stevens
(Randolph-Macons Womens College) | |
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Walter E. Kaegi
(University of
Chicago): Gigthis in the Pseudo-Methodius Apocalypse and
Its
Significance | |
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Joan M. Downs (University
of
Michigan): Monks, Nuns and Noblemen: Status and Identity
in
Late
Antique Africa, the Case of Tabarka | |
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Frank M. Clover
(University of
Wisconsin-Madison): Royalty, Timekeeping and the Heartbeat
of
Vandal and Proto-Byzantine Africa | ||
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11:00 am- |
Session Four: Late
Byzantine/Early Ottoman Topics | |
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12:00 noon |
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Chair: Rudi Paul Lindner
(University of
Michigan) | ||
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Tom Papademetriou
(Princeton
University): The Construction of the Patriarchal Tax Farm
(14th-16th Century) | ||
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Nenad Filipovic (Princeton
University): Istanbul
Tekf|ri and Qayser-i Rum: On the Ottoman
Perception of
Byzantine Emperors | ||
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Diana Gilliland Wright
(Independent Scholar): When the Serenissima and the
Grand Turco Made Love: The Peace Treaty of
1478 | ||
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12:00 noon- |
Lunch | |
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2:00 pm |
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2:00- |
Session Five: Precious
Objects,
Precious Material &nbs
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3:30 pm |
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Chair: Archer St. Clair (Rutgers
University) | ||
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Kriszta Kotsis (University
of
Washington): The Gold Coinage of Irene from Constantinople
(797-802) | ||
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John Cotsonis (Holy Cross
Greek
Orthodox School of Theology): The Virgin and Justinian on
Seals
of the Ekdikoi | ||
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Alicia Walker (Harvard
University): Byzantine Marriage Rings Reconsidered | ||
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Dora Piguet-Panayotova (Paris): A Decorated Silver Censer from the Time of Justinian | ||
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2:00- |
Session Six: The Byzantine
Polis |
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3:30 pm |
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Chair: Kenneth G. Holum
(University of
Maryland) | |
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Claudia Rapp (University
of
California, Los Angeles): Bishops as Civic Leaders in
Early
Byzantium
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Stephen R. Zwirn
(Dumbarton
Oaks): The Vienna Ivories: The Consular Status of the
Roma and
Constantinopolis Diptych | |
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Robert Hallman (New York
University): Promoting and Protecting: Urban Iconography
in
Late
Byzantine Coins and Seals | |
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Thomas Brauch (Central
Michigan
University): The Fall of Themistus | |
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3:30- |
Coffee |
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4:00 pm |
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4:00- |
Session Seven: Magic and
the
Miraculous |
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5:30 pm |
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Chair: Eunice Dauterman Maguire
(Johns
Hopkins University) | |
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Daniel Sarefield (Ohio
State
University): Incendiary Texts: Burning Magical Books in
the Late
Roman Period | |
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Dayna Kalleres (Brown
University): Demonic Possession in the Holy Mans Bag of
Tricks:
Magical Practices Employed for Christian Salvation | |
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Richard Tada (University
of
Washington): Alexius I Comnenus and the Sacred Lots | |
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Karen C. Britt (Indiana
University): The Exhalations of St. John the Evangelist:
The Lure
of Ephesos for Early Byzantine Pilgrims | |
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4:00- |
Session Eight: In the Wake
of the
Crusades |
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5:30 pm |
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Christopher MacEvitt
(Princeton
University): Armenians and Franks in Edessa,
1098-1118 | |
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Lynn M. Snyder
(Smithsonian
Institution): Frankish Meals in Greece: the Identification
and
Recognition of an Invaders Cuisine | |
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Jaroslav Folda (University
of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Loca Sancta Imagery
in
Crusader Palestine: The Case of the Freiburg Leaf | |
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David Mordecai Perry
(University
of Minnesota): Sacred Theft and Sacred Looting:
Correlations
between Early Medieval and Fourth Crusade furta sacra
Narratives | |
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8:30- |
Session Nine: The
Byzantine
Military |
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10:00 am |
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John F. Shean (University
of
Michigan): Assimilation and Christianization in the Early
Byzantine Army | |
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Michael Kulikowski (Smith
College): The Career of Marcellinus of Dalmatia | |
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E. Warren Perry, Jr. (The
University of Memphis): Sex, Swords and Spirituality:
Heroic
Motifs in Digenis Akritis | |
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Dimiter G. Angelov
(Harvard
University): The Second Imperial Oration of Theodore
Metochites
and the Campaigns of Andronikos II in Asia Minor
(1290-1293) | |
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8:30- |
Session Ten: Byzantine
Architecture |
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10:00 am |
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Chair: Ann Terry (Independent
Scholar) | |
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Kim Bowes (Princeton
University):
Gods House in the Private House: Urban House Chapels in
the
Late
Roman East | |
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Carolyn S. Snively
(Gettysburg
College): The Integration of Christianity and Death:
Burials at
Churches and Churches in Cemeteries | |
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Theresa Flanigan
(Institute of
Fine Arts, NYU): Reevaluating the Principles of Measure at
Hagioi
Sergius and Bacchus in Constantinople | |
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Svetlana Popovic
(Greenbelt, MD):
The Architectural Transformation of Laura in Middle
and
Late Byzantium | |
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10:00- |
Coffee |
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10:15 am |
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10:15- |
Session Eleven: The
Diffusion of
Byzantine Influence |
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11:45 am |
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Chair: Dorothy Abrahamse
(California
State University, Long Beach) | |
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Daniel Caner (University of Connecticut): Sinai Pilgrimage and Ascetic Romance in Late Antiquity | |
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Linda Jones Hall (St.
Marys
College of Maryland): The Letters of Libanius: A Window on
the
Late Antique Province of Phoenicia | |
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Stephen H. Rapp, Jr.
(Georgia
State University, Atlanta): Looking towards
Constantinople:
Byzantium in Georgian Historical Literature | |
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Maria Mavroudi (Germany):
A
Greek-Arabic Lexicon of the 14th Century and Greek Learning
in
Muslim Lands | |
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10:15- |
Session Twelve: Byzantine
Law |
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11:45 am |
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Ralph W. Mathisen
(University of
South Carolina): Personal Privilege, Imperial Beneficence,
and
the adnotatio in the Early Byzantine Empire | |
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Hassan Khalilieh
(University of
Haifa and Dumbarton Oaks): The Problem of Jettison in the
Islamic
and Rhodian Sea Laws | |
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Leonora Neville (Catholic
University of America): Complete Authority and Perfect
Free
Will:
Formulas of Possession and Volition in Tenth to Twelfth
Century Acts
of Athos | |
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Patrick Viscuso
(Chantilly, VA):
Menstruation: A Problem in Late Byzantine Canon Law | |
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10:15- |
Session Thirteen: Pioneers
of
Byzantine Studies in America VI |
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11:45 am |
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Chair: John W. Barker (University
of
Wisconsin) | |
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David H. Wright
(University of
California, Berkeley): Ernst Kantorowicz in America | |
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Kenneth Levy (Princeton
University): Oliver Strunk and Byzantine Musicology in
America | |
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Lawrence A. Tritle (Loyola
Marymount University): Stewart Irvin Oost and the Chicago
School | |
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John V. A. Fine
(University of
Michigan): Florovsky in America | |
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12:00 noon- |
Business Lunch |
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2:00 pm |
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2:00- |
Session Fourteen: Late
Byzantine
Literature |
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3:30 pm |
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Chair: Timothy S. Miller
(Salisbury
State University) | |
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Franz Tinnefeld
(Universitdt
M|nchen): The Authors Ego in Late Byzantine Letters | |
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Sarah T. Brooks (Institute
of
Fine Arts, NYU): The Epigrams of Manuel Philes (c.
1270-1330):
Patronage and Monumental Forms in the Late Byzantine Funerary
Monument | |
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George Baloglou (SUNY
Oswego)
and
Nick Nicholas (University of California, Irvine): Humor or
Dissent? Two
Late
Byzantine Animal Epics | |
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Alain Touwaide
(Independent
Scholar): The Xenodocheion tou Kralj in
Constantinople and
its Medical Activity | |
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2:00- |
Session Fifteen: Byzantium
Confronts the West |
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3:30 pm |
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Chair: Charles M. Brand (Bryn
Mawr
College) | |
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Danuta Shanzer (Cornell
University): The Burgundians and Byzantium | |
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Heather E. Grossman
(University
of Pennsylvania): Building Identity: The Origins and
Diffusion of
Architectural Plans and Ornament in Frankish-Period
Greece | |
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Demetrios Athanasoulis
(6th
Ephoreia of Byzantine Antiquities, Greece): The
Architecture of
the Byzantine and Frankish Churches of Elis, Greece | |
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Angela Volan (University
of
Chicago): Last Judgments and Last Emperors: Byzantine
Imperial
Ideology and Eschatology in the Church of Agios Pavlos,
Crete | |
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3:30- |
Session Sixteen: Byzantine
Archeology |
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5:00 pm |
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Chair: Cecil L. Striker
(University of
Pennsylvania) |
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Frank R. Trombley
(University of
Wales, Cardiff): Slavs and Cultural Symbiosis in Early
Medieval
Greece: The Results of a Recent Archaeological Survey |
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Kostis Kourelis
(University of
Pennsylvania): House and Village in the Northwestern
Peloponnese:
The Archaeology of a Medieval Countryside | |
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Timothy E. Gregory (OSU
Excavations at Isthmia): Churches, Landscape, and
Population in
Byzantine Kythera: The Australian Paliochora-Kythera
Archaeological
Survey 1999-2000 | |
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Charles Nicklies
(Louisville, KY)
and Amy Papalexandrou (University of Michigan): Byzantines
and
Lusignans in the Hinterland of Cyprus: Recent Excavations of
the
Princeton-Cyprus Expedition at Polis | |
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Camilla MacKay (University
of
Michigan): Late Medieval Pottery from the Athenian
Agora | |
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3:30- |
Session Seventeen:
Byzantium and
its Slavic Neighbors |
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5:00 pm |
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Ian S.R. Mladov
(University of
Michigan): Between Byzantium and Rome: Bulgaria in the
Aftermath
of the Photian Schism | |
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George P. Majeska
(University of
Maryland): Patriarch Photius and the Conversion of the
Rus | |
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Andrew Walker White
(University
of Maryland): Notes Towards a Byzantine Theory of
Religious
Performance: An Analysis of The Office of the Three
Children in
the Fiery Furnace |
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Gregory Myers:
Byzantine
Chant
or Znamenny Rospev?
Continued Byzantine Hegemony in the Russian Musical
Manuscript Tradition of the Late Sixteenth Century | |
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Karen Lemiski (Arizona
State
University): Sending a Letter to Byzantium: The
Imperial
Russian Mail Service to Mt. Athos | |
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5:00- |
Coffee |
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5:15 pm |
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5:15- |
Session Eighteen:
Monasticism |
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6:45 pm |
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Chair: Robert W. Allison (Bates
College) | |
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Mark Moussa (Catholic
University
of America): Shenoute to Moses of Abydos: Monastic
Authority
and
Social Control in Early Byzantine Egypt | |
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Richard Layton (University
of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Literacy and the Practice
of
Reading in Early Byzantine Monasteries | |
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Dusan Korac (University of
Maryland): The Empress, the Despoina, the Sultana, and the
Black-Robed Monk: Three Serbian Ladies on Mount Athos | |
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Carolyn L. Connor
(University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill): A Sense of Family: Monastic
Portraits in the Lincoln College Typikon | |
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5:15- |
Session Nineteen:
Manuscript
Studies |
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6:45 pm |
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Chair: Susan Pinto Madigan
(Michigan
State University) | |
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Maureen OBrien
(University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill): The Gynaeceum, the
Kindergarten,
and the Vienna Genesis: Biblical and Extra-Biblical Imagery
in Folio
16r | |
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