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October 30, 2021

Rituals at the Grail Table

By Daniele Gallindo Gonçalves

Whether it’s the time we get up in the morning or when we eat or go to sleep, our daily routines are a form of ritual. However, can we really call such (individual) habits rituals? What is actually a ritual? As defined by Gerd Althoff, a ritual is “a formally-standardized symbolic sequence of actions that has a specific effectiveness”, since it has the capacity to (re)produce “a social, political, spiritual, etc. change of state” (Althoff; Stollberg-Rilinger 2008: 144).
October 27, 2021

Lecture at UNI BA by Prof. Dr Bettina Wagner and Alyssa Steiner: Albrecht Pfister and the Earliest Printed Books in German from Bamberg

Lecture at UNI BA: Prof. Dr Bettina Wagner, Director of the Bamberg State Library, and Alyssa Steiner (M.St. University of Bamberg) will give a joint paper entitled 'Albrecht Pfister and the Earliest Printed Books in German from Bamberg’ on Tuesday, 2 November 2021, at 3:30 CET (online). The paper will focus on the first Bamberg book printer, Albrecht Pfister, and specifically on the extremely rare Pfister prints held in British and American libraries. The talk will be in English; to register and join, please visit: https://www.staatsbibliothek-bamberg.de/article/albrecht-pfister-and-the-earliest-printed-books-in-german-from-bamberg/
October 19, 2021

CML videoseminar. Ingrid Bennewitz, “Brynhild’s Return. On the Depiction of the Icelandic Queen in Twenty-first Century Cinema”

Ingrid Bennewitz (University of Bamberg) will be giving an online seminar on "Brynhild's Return. On the Depiction of the Icelandic Queen in Twenty-first Century Cinema" on Thursday, 25 November. The seminar is part of the autumn 2021 seminar series and will be online via Zoom. All are welcome! To register please write to [email protected]
October 14, 2021

International Conference – Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale (2nd – 7th c. CE)

26 & 27 November 2021

This conference is organized in the framework of the two-year research project (2019-2022) “Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale (2nd – 7th c. CE)”, which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.
October 1, 2021

International Conference – LACTATING BREASTS: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium

5–7 November 2021

This conference is organized in the framework of a three-year research project (2019-2021) entitled ‘Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium (4th c. BCE–7th c. CE)’, which is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research and Innovation Foundation.
September 30, 2021

Manuscript production in medieval Cyprus for church rituals

By Marina Toumpouri

Medieval written records are complex things; it is not easy (or often possible) to pin down their provenance, history of ownership, and transmission. In this month’s post, Dr Marina Toumpouri of the University of Cyprus considers the case of surviving Greek manuscripts and the work historians and philologists must do to access their distant but exciting world.
September 9, 2021

Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Byzantine Studies

29 September 2021

The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Byzantine Studies will be held on September 29, at 18.00 EET online via Zoom (link below). We have the great honour to have with us as our keynote speaker Associate Professor Stavroula Constantinou, Director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (University of Cyprus) who will be speaking on Arts and Rituals of Death in Byzantine Literature.
August 31, 2021

The past is a foreign country: Medievalism and Time Travel Narratives

By Sarah Böhlau

From the moment the time travel narrative entered human imagination at the end of the 19th century, opening doors to both past and future, the medieval period has held a special point of interest for many storytellers. Examining the foreign period through the lens of temporal tourism provides a unique way to relate to the past – and rituals are important support structures in this journey.