This week CEU hosts a series of events on Byzantine studies, centered around the Second Gutenberg Symposium on Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context.
We kick off with a lunch seminar on Tuesday on the Alexander romance in the orthodox Slavic world. The seminar will present the various translations and versions of the Greek Alexander Romance into Church Slavonic. It will pay special attention to the paratactic creation of Slavonic versions, other codicological features that would contribute to our understanding of the relations between texts, the paramount question of the scribal agency or the introduction of new concepts such as the monastic graphosphere.
Wednesday evening sees the keynote of Education and Literature in a Medieval Eurasian Context. Vasileios Marinis' lecture on Teaching the Liturgy in Palaiologan Byzantium will focus on two kinds of evidence, textual and visual. It will argue that, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, several interpretive models existed, most likely independently of each other.
Thursday and Friday are devoted to the symposium itself. The full program is available here. The symposium is organized by our Prof. Baukje van den Berg and Panagiotis Agapitos from the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. It is supported by the Center for Eastern Mediterranean and The Academic Cooperation and Research Support Office (ACRO) at CEU, and Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz.
Image credit: Mystras, Church of Theotokos Peribleptos, 14th century. Photo taken by Vasileios Marinis.