Tradition and Transformation
Dissent and Consent in the Mediterranean.
1st Edition
Published on 23. January 2017
Book
Hardback
229 pages
978-3-943025-32-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Mediterranean has long been a space of interaction between cultures which shaped and reshaped their identities and traditions. How these often competing communities questioned, structured and performed their own beliefs and religious practices by shaping their orthodoxies and disclosing heresies commends a persistent and multifaceted interdisciplinary research. The present volume gathers eleven selected papers from the fields of Late Antique, Byzantine, Ottoman, Western Medieval, Caucasus, and Jewish studies on themes that reflect on and address the complex formation and development of cultural, intellectual and religious identities in the Mediterranean.
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Language
Other
English
Latin
Place of publication
Kiel
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Illustrations
4 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 21 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-943025-32-3 (9783943025323)
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Persons
Editor
Historiker
Mihail Mitrea is doctoral candidate in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, working on the hagiographical oeuvre of Philotheos Kokkinos. He published articles with Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and is junior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for the 2016-2017 academic year. His research interests lie in the field of Byzantine literature, theology, hagiography, epistolography, Greek palaeography and manuscript studies.
Mihail Mitrea is doctoral candidate in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, working on the hagiographical oeuvre of Philotheos Kokkinos. He published articles with Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik and Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and is junior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for the 2016-2017 academic year. His research interests lie in the field of Byzantine literature, theology, hagiography, epistolography, Greek palaeography and manuscript studies.
Contributions
Historiker
Nikoloz Aleksidze is a Research Associate at Faculty of History at the University of Oxford (The Cult of Saints research project) and a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He also worked as the Dean of Social Sciences at the Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia). In 2013 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. He has prepared a monograph, The Schism: An Interpretive Schema of Caucasian History, which is currently submitted for review. Meanwhile he is working on a monograph which examines various aspects of religion and political thought in medieval and nineteenth-century Caucasus.
Nikoloz Aleksidze is a Research Associate at Faculty of History at the University of Oxford (The Cult of Saints research project) and a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford. He also worked as the Dean of Social Sciences at the Free University of Tbilisi (Georgia). In 2013 he defended his doctoral thesis at the Oriental Institute, Oxford. He has prepared a monograph, The Schism: An Interpretive Schema of Caucasian History, which is currently submitted for review. Meanwhile he is working on a monograph which examines various aspects of religion and political thought in medieval and nineteenth-century Caucasus.
Historikerin
Annika Asp-Talwar is a final year PhD student at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral research examines the political relationship between Trebizond and Constantinople during the late Byzantine period.
Annika Asp-Talwar is a final year PhD student at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral research examines the political relationship between Trebizond and Constantinople during the late Byzantine period.
Historiker
Jonas J. H. Christensen completed his PhD at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and his MA in Byzantine Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include Byzantine poetry, monasticism, autobiographies, and theology. The subject of his thesis, defended November 2015, was Nikephoros Blemmydes' Diegesis Merike read in the context of autobiographical foundation documents.
Jonas J. H. Christensen completed his PhD at the Centre for Medieval Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and his MA in Byzantine Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His research interests include Byzantine poetry, monasticism, autobiographies, and theology. The subject of his thesis, defended November 2015, was Nikephoros Blemmydes' Diegesis Merike read in the context of autobiographical foundation documents.
Historiker
Nicholas Ellis pursued his graduate studies in Jewish and Christian origins at Trinity Western University (Langley, BC) and Oxford University. He is now a visiting research scholar at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA). He has published primarily in the reception of Hebrew Bible and New Testament Interpretation, as well as in the area of Greek linguistics. His doctoral dissertation on "The Hermeneutics of Divine Testing: Cosmic Trials and Biblical Interpretation in the Epistle of James and other Jewish Literature" has been recently published with Mohr Siebeck. Dr. Ellis lives with his wife and four children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Nicholas Ellis pursued his graduate studies in Jewish and Christian origins at Trinity Western University (Langley, BC) and Oxford University. He is now a visiting research scholar at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA). He has published primarily in the reception of Hebrew Bible and New Testament Interpretation, as well as in the area of Greek linguistics. His doctoral dissertation on "The Hermeneutics of Divine Testing: Cosmic Trials and Biblical Interpretation in the Epistle of James and other Jewish Literature" has been recently published with Mohr Siebeck. Dr. Ellis lives with his wife and four children in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Historiker
Maël Goarzin is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). His research focuses on late antique philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and biography. He is particularly interested in the practical aspects of the philosopher's life. Through a careful study of Neoplatonic biographies, he wants to reconstruct the ideal way of life conveyed by the philosopher's life and offered to Neoplatonic students.
Maël Goarzin is a PhD student at the University of Lausanne and at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris). His research focuses on late antique philosophy, especially Neoplatonism and biography. He is particularly interested in the practical aspects of the philosopher's life. Through a careful study of Neoplatonic biographies, he wants to reconstruct the ideal way of life conveyed by the philosopher's life and offered to Neoplatonic students.
Historiker
Christian Hoffarth has recently completed his PhD in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Hamburg (2016). His studies were supported by a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Prior to his PhD, he received a magister degree in History and German Studies from the University of Heidelberg. Since 2014, he has been a research fellow at the Chair for Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the McGill University, Montreal.
Christian Hoffarth has recently completed his PhD in Medieval and Modern History at the University of Hamburg (2016). His studies were supported by a fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Prior to his PhD, he received a magister degree in History and German Studies from the University of Heidelberg. Since 2014, he has been a research fellow at the Chair for Late Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In 2016, he was a visiting scholar at the McGill University, Montreal.
Historiker
Mihailo St. Popovic is project leader of the projects "Tabula Imperii Byzantini" (TIB) and Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He received both his MA (2000) and PhD (2005) with highest distinction from the University of Vienna. In 2011 he thaught "History of South-East Europe and Byzantine Studies" at the University of Vienna. Among his research interests: history and culture of South Eastern Europe (7th-16th c.), late Byzantine history (1204 - 1453), gender studies, historical geography, and cartography of the Mediterranean, digital humanities and historical geographic information systems (HGIS).
Mihailo St. Popovic is project leader of the projects "Tabula Imperii Byzantini" (TIB) and Digitising Patterns of Power (DPP) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He received both his MA (2000) and PhD (2005) with highest distinction from the University of Vienna. In 2011 he thaught "History of South-East Europe and Byzantine Studies" at the University of Vienna. Among his research interests: history and culture of South Eastern Europe (7th-16th c.), late Byzantine history (1204 - 1453), gender studies, historical geography, and cartography of the Mediterranean, digital humanities and historical geographic information systems (HGIS).
Theologin
Hajnalka Tamás is a post-doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on various aspects of late antique Christianity, especially the development of Christian identity and asceticism. Her PhD dissertation (2014) surveyed the fourth and fifth century Pannonian 'passiones' from a text-critical, historical as well as theological perspective. Her current project deals with the social implications of urban asceticism in Late Antiquity.
Hajnalka Tamás is a post-doctoral fellow of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and research associate at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven (Belgium). Her research focuses on various aspects of late antique Christianity, especially the development of Christian identity and asceticism. Her PhD dissertation (2014) surveyed the fourth and fifth century Pannonian 'passiones' from a text-critical, historical as well as theological perspective. Her current project deals with the social implications of urban asceticism in Late Antiquity.
Kunsthistorikerin
Nirvana Silnovic has obtained a BA in Art History and Swedish Language and Culture from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, an MA in Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Art History), and an MA in Medieval Studies from the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University. Her research interests include Roman and Late Antique art and archaeology, provincial art and archaeology, and ancient religion (particularly mystery cults). She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Medieval Studies (CEU), working on a dissertation provisionally entitled "The Art of the Mithraic Cult in the Roman Province of Dalmatia," under the supervision of Professor Volker Menze. She is also teaching Croatian language within the Source Language Teaching Group at CEU.
Nirvana Silnovic has obtained a BA in Art History and Swedish Language and Culture from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, an MA in Art History from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (Art History), and an MA in Medieval Studies from the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University. Her research interests include Roman and Late Antique art and archaeology, provincial art and archaeology, and ancient religion (particularly mystery cults). She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Medieval Studies (CEU), working on a dissertation provisionally entitled "The Art of the Mithraic Cult in the Roman Province of Dalmatia," under the supervision of Professor Volker Menze. She is also teaching Croatian language within the Source Language Teaching Group at CEU.
Máté Veres is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the Central European University. He holds an MA-equivalent degree in philosophy from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest) and is currently finishing his dissertation on skeptical argumentation concerning theology in Cicero and Sextus Empiricus. He was a visiting student at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, and a Fulbright visiting researcher at the Cornell University (Ithaca, New York). His research interests include various topics in Hellenistic and Late Antique philosophy, the history of scepticism, and Early Modern philosophical theology.
Historikerin
Jessica van 't Westeinde has recently completed her PhD (2016) at Durham University where she focused on Roman aristocrats in Jerome's epistolary correspondence. Currently she is conducting research at Aarhus University (Denmark), School of Culture and Society, funded by an AUFF visiting grant. She looks into Jewish and Christian ideas of Diaspora identities in Rome in the context of shifting roles of religion in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. The specific methodologies applied mean that she is also connected with the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt ("Lived Ancient Religion" project).
Jessica van 't Westeinde has recently completed her PhD (2016) at Durham University where she focused on Roman aristocrats in Jerome's epistolary correspondence. Currently she is conducting research at Aarhus University (Denmark), School of Culture and Society, funded by an AUFF visiting grant. She looks into Jewish and Christian ideas of Diaspora identities in Rome in the context of shifting roles of religion in the aftermath of the Bar Kokhba revolt. The specific methodologies applied mean that she is also connected with the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt ("Lived Ancient Religion" project).
Content
7 Acknowledgments
8 List of Abbreviations
11 List of Figures
12 Introduction - Mihail Mitrea
20 Tradition and Transformation in Ancient Jewish Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation - Nicholas J. Ellis
40 Uses and Misuses of the Common Concepts Strategy in Emperor Julian's Contra Galilaeos - Máté Veres
56 The Iconography of the Mithraic Tondo from Salona Revisited - Nirvana Silnovic
76 Martyrdom and Episcopal Authority: The Bishop-Martyr in Pannonian Hagiography - Hajnalka Tamás
92 Questioning Authority: Christian Education Leading to Lay Participation in Doctrinal Debates - Jessica I. O. van 't Westeinde
115 Presenting a Practical Way of Life through Biographical Discourse: The Examples of Gregory of Nyssa and Marinus - Maël Goarzin?
130 The Murder at Mount Kangar: The Oral Narratives of the Caucasian 'Schism' - Nikoloz Aleksidze
149 Three Deaths in Nikephoros Blemmydes' Diegesis Merike II - Jonas J. H. Christensen
163 Bad Luck and Divine Protection - Religion and Biography in the Periegesis by Andrew Libadenos - Annika Asp-Talwar
183 Rewriting Ecclesia Primitiva: Peter of John Olivi's Image of Early Christianity and the Formation of Dissent in the Western Mediterranean around 1300 - Christian Hoffarth
212 South - East European Princesses, Christian Renegades and Early Ottoman Statehood in the Balkans: State of Research and New Perspectives - Mihailo St. Popovic
226 Bibliography
270 Contributors
8 List of Abbreviations
11 List of Figures
12 Introduction - Mihail Mitrea
20 Tradition and Transformation in Ancient Jewish Cosmology and Biblical Interpretation - Nicholas J. Ellis
40 Uses and Misuses of the Common Concepts Strategy in Emperor Julian's Contra Galilaeos - Máté Veres
56 The Iconography of the Mithraic Tondo from Salona Revisited - Nirvana Silnovic
76 Martyrdom and Episcopal Authority: The Bishop-Martyr in Pannonian Hagiography - Hajnalka Tamás
92 Questioning Authority: Christian Education Leading to Lay Participation in Doctrinal Debates - Jessica I. O. van 't Westeinde
115 Presenting a Practical Way of Life through Biographical Discourse: The Examples of Gregory of Nyssa and Marinus - Maël Goarzin?
130 The Murder at Mount Kangar: The Oral Narratives of the Caucasian 'Schism' - Nikoloz Aleksidze
149 Three Deaths in Nikephoros Blemmydes' Diegesis Merike II - Jonas J. H. Christensen
163 Bad Luck and Divine Protection - Religion and Biography in the Periegesis by Andrew Libadenos - Annika Asp-Talwar
183 Rewriting Ecclesia Primitiva: Peter of John Olivi's Image of Early Christianity and the Formation of Dissent in the Western Mediterranean around 1300 - Christian Hoffarth
212 South - East European Princesses, Christian Renegades and Early Ottoman Statehood in the Balkans: State of Research and New Perspectives - Mihailo St. Popovic
226 Bibliography
270 Contributors