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Imagining ByzantiumPerceptions, Patterns, Problems
Alena Alshanskaya · Andreas Gietzen · Christina Hadjiafxenti (eds)
Byzantium the other. Byzantium the pompous. Byzantium the eternal. The mere existence of this em-pire with his rich history and otherness from western European traditions spurred the minds of scholars, noblemen, politicians and ordinary people throughout its survival and long beyond its final downfall in 1453. Neglecting its great political and cultural influence on neighbouring countries and beyond, Enligh-tenment writers stripped Byzantium of its original historical reality and thus created a model, which could be utilised in very different constructs, stretching from positive to absolutely negative connotations. With the rise of new nationalisms, primarily in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, and the associated politically inspired historical (re)constructions in the 19th and 20th century, the reception of Byzantium gained new facets, its perception reached into new dimensions. In this volume, we would like to shed some light on these patterns and the problems they entail, and show the different ways in which »Byzantium« was used as an argument in nation-building and in constructing new historiographical narratives, and how its legacy endured in ecclesiastical historiography.
Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident: Veröffentlichungen des Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Mainz
Die Reihe Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident wird vom Vorstand des gleichnamigen Leibniz-Wissen schaftsCampus Mainz, einer seit 2011 bestehenden Kooperation des Römisch-Germanischen Zentral museums und der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz sowie weiterer Kooperationspartner, herausgegeben.Die Reihe dient als Publikationsorgan für das Forschungsprogramm des Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus, das Byzanz, seine Brückenfunktion zwischen Ost und West sowie kulturelle Transfer- und Rezeptionsprozesse von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit in den Blick nimmt. Die Methoden und Untersuchungsgegenstände der verschiedenen Disziplinen, die sich mit Byzanz beschäftigen, werden dabei jenseits traditioneller Fächer-grenzen zusammengeführt, um mit einem historisch-kulturwissenschaftlichen Zugang Byzanz und seine materielle und immaterielle Kultur umfassend zu erforschen.
Byzanz zwischen Orient und Okzident | 11Veröffentlichungen des Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Mainz
Der Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus Mainz ist eine Forschungskooperation des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums und der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Verlag des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums | Mainz | 2018
Alena Alshanskaya · Andreas Gietzen · Christina Hadjiafxenti (eds)
Imagining ByzantiumPerceptions, Patterns, Problems
Redaktion: Stefan Albrecht (RGZM), Joe Paul Kroll, WiesbadenSatz: Stefan Albrecht (RGZM)Umschlaggestaltung: Claudia Nickel (RGZM); Detail of the Major Sakkos‘Front:GrandPrinceVasilijIDmitrievičandhiswifeGrandPrincess Sof’ja (Vitovtovna). After Medieval Embroidery: Medieval Pictorial Embroidery. Byzantium, Balkans, Russia. Catalogue of the Exhibition, XVIIIthInternationalCongressofByzantinists,Moscow,August8-15,1991(Moscow1991)49.
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ISBN 978-3-88467-310-2
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Alena Alshanskaya · Andreas Gietzen · Christina Hadjiafxenti Preface
Jan KusberImagining Byzantium: An Introduction
Günter PrinzingByzantium, Medieval Russia and the So-called Family of Kings. From George Ostrogorsky to Franz Dölger’s Construct and its Critics
Hans-Christian Maner»Byzance après Byzance« – Nicolae Iorga’s Concept and its Aftermath
Dimitris StamatopoulosThe Western Byzantium of Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos
PrzemysławMarciniakOrientallikeByzantium.SomeRemarksonSimilaritiesBetweenByzantinismandOrientalism
KirillMaksimovičTheCollectionofByzantineCanonLaw(»Knigapravil«,1839)asaLegalBasisfortheRussianOrthodox Church in the 19th and 20th Centuries: Paradoxes, Problems and Perspectives
Alena AlshanskayaThe Reception of Byzantium in Russian Church Historiography
Dimitrios MoschosApproaching the Byzantine Past in the Historical Work of Dositheos of Jerusalem and Meletios of Athens
Christina HadjiafxentiByzantium in Greek Church Historiography of the 19thCentury:BetweenGermanProtestantInfluenceandGreekOrthodoxConfession
Mihai-D. GrigoreByzantium for Priests. Image of Byzantium in Romanian Theological Textbooks of the Late 20th Century
Lora GerdRussian Imperial Policy in the Orthodox East and its Relation to Byzantine Studies
Andreas GietzenBadByzantines:AHistoricalNarrativeintheLiberalConceptionofVladimirJovanović
AleksandarIgnjatovićNegotiating National Prospects by Capturing the Medieval Past: Byzantium in Serbian Architec-tural History at the Turn of the 20th Century
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StefanRohdewaldByzantine »Slavery« as Postcolonial Imagination: »Foreign« Rulers of a »Pure« Bulgarian Nation (1850-1930)
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much-needed research on the reception of Byzantium in East-ern and Southeastern Europe up to the 19th and 20th centuries. To that end,we invited researchers from different regionsanddifferent scientificdisciplines to share their visions andexpertise during our conference »Imagining Byzantium, per-ceptions,patterns,problems«,whichwasheldinMainzfrom2to4March2017.Byfocusingonthefieldsofhistoriography,theology and cultural studies, and linking yet transcending theirapproachestoresearch,wedevelopedaperspectiveableto shed some light on the reception and utilisation of Byzan-tium in a highly volatile and ever-changing age. This volume represents the outcome of this conference and hopes to con-tribute to international and interdisciplinary discourse about thetopicaswellasprovidinganimpulseforfurtherstudieson the »burdensome intellectual heritage«3 of Byzantinism. This conferencewouldnothavebeenpossiblewithout thefinancialsupportoftheSüdosteuropa-Gesellschaft(SoutheastEurope Association, Munich) and organizational support of the LeibnizWissenschaftsCampusMainz»ByzanzzwischenOrientundOkzident«(ByzantiumbetweenOrientandOccident)andthe Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (Mainz).
For the publication of this volumewe owe our specialgratitude to the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz and to the Internal University Research Funding of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz. We are also very grateful to Joe Paul Kroll for his careful editing and proofread-ing of this volume.
Interest in the reception of historical »entities« and the cor-responding construction of historical narratives during the process of modern nation-building has increasingly moved to thecentreofresearch.Inthefaceofnewnationalisms,pri-marily in Eastern and Southeastern Europe and the associated politically inspired historical (re)constructions, the reception of Byzantium requires professional historical expertise not only for the sake of disarming the politically committed interpre-tationofhistorybutalsoofsecuringthescientificintegrityofhistory, especially of such »small« historical disciplines as Byz-antine studies. Dimiter Angelov grasped the essence of the problemwhenhesaid:»[…]Byzantinism,originatingfromthe stereotyping and essentializing of a medieval civilization, wastransformedintoapopularconstructusedbyjournalistsand politicians, and detached from the original historical real-ity of Byzantium«1. Our research group »The Legacies of Byz-antium«,situatedwithinthekeysubjectarea»ContactandDiscoursewithinChristianity«oftheLeibnizScienceCampusMainz»ByzantiumbetweenOrientandOccident«,aimstoinvestigate the impact and reception of Byzantine history and culture in 19th and 20th century Europe and its appropriation and use as an argument.
Followingtheintentionsoutlinedbyleadingresearchersinthisfield2,whohavealreadydevotedmuchimportantresearchto phenomena of reception in literature, architecture and art history, music, philosophy and historiographical studies after 1453andintotheearlymodernage,weintendedtocarryout
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3 Angelov, Byzantinism 18.
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