PROCEEDINGS OF THE 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BYZANTINE STUDIES BELGRADE, 22 – 27 AUGUST 2016 ROUND TABLES The Serbian National Committee of AIEB and the contributors 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover illustration: Personification of Truth, Church of the Holy Virgin of Ljeviša in Prizren, beginning of the 14th century, fresco. Proceeding of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies Belgrade, 22 – 27 August 2016 ROUND TABLES Editors Bojana Krsmanović, Ljubomir Milanović Assistant Editor Bojana Pavlović Belgrade 2016 CONTENTS ROUND TABLES 9 Foreword Monday, 22nd August 13 Les nouveaux martyrs dans l’hagiographie byzantine Conveners: André Binggeli, Sophie Métivier 47 Law as a Means of Change in Byzantium Convener: Dafni Penna 73 The Shifting Dynamics Between Text and Society. Towards a Sociology of Byzantine Literature Conveners: Floris Bernard, Alexander Riehle 99 Visual Transmission of Scientific Knowledge in Byzantium: Different Visions & New Perspectives on Scientific Illustrations Convener: Stavros Lazaris 118 Pour une nouvelle approche des effigies hagiographiques dans le décor des églises byzantines Conveners: Catherine Jolivet-Lévy, Sulamith Brodbeck, Nano Chatzidakis 150 Crimes Against the State and the Church Convener: Wolfram Brandes 189 Forces of Stability: Personal Agency and Microstructures Convener: Claudia Rapp 221 L’auteur à Byzance: de l’écriture à son public Convener: Paolo Odorico Tuesday, 23rd August 272 The Early and Middle Byzantine Tradition of Aristotelian Logic: the Road from Alexandria to Constantinople Convener: Christophe Erismann 294 The Episcopal Palace in Early Byzantium: Historical Development, Architectural Typologies, Domestic Spaces Convener: Isabella Baldini 307 Byzantine Naxos in the Light of Recent Research Convener: Paul Magdalino 338 Metaphrasis in Byzantine Literature Conveners: Anne Alwis, Martin Hinterberger, Elisabeth Schiffer 382 Du manuscrit de lois à l’acte écrit: la pratique juridique à Byzance Conveners: Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Raúl Estangüi Gómez 390 Les relations diplomatiques byzantines (ive-xve siècles): Permanence et/ou changements Conveners: Elisabeth Malamut, Nicolas Drocourt 401 Poetic Circles and Anthologies in Byzantium Conveners: Delphine Lauritzen, Emilie Van Opstall 432 Philosophers and Philosophical Books in Byzantium Conveners: Michele Trizio, Pantelis Golitsis 464 New Perspectives on the Byzantine City as Consumption Centre Convener: Joanita Vroom 504 Beyond the Periphery: Islands of Byzantium Between 7th and 13th Century Conveners: Giuseppe Mandalà, Luca Zavagno 517 Michael Psellos. One Thousand Years of a Polymath’s Birth Convener: Frederick Lauritzen 560 Thessaloniki in the Age of Comnenoi and Angeloi Conveners: Maria Kambouri-Vamvoukou, Polymnia Katsoni 591 Reapproaching Iconoclasm. New Perspectives and Material Conveners: Charalampos G. Chotzakoglou, Marielle Martiniani-Reber 608 Byzantine and Latins in the Greek Mainland and the Islands (13th-15th Centuries): Archaeological and Artistic Evidence af an Interrelation Conveners: Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Vassiliki Vicky Foskolou 646 Liturgical Poetry as Literature: Rhetoric, Exegesis, and Artistry Convener: Derek Krueger Wednesday, 24th August 689 Le rôle des miracles et des recueils de miracles Conveners: Vincent Déroche, Stephanos Efthymiadis 708 At the Origins of the Highbrow Byzantine Language: Innovation And Tradition In Middle- And Latebyzantine School Instruction Conveners: Antonio Rollo, Nicolo Zorzi 744 Les frontières et les limites du patriarcat de Constantinople Conveners: Marie Hélène Blanchet, Dan Ion Mureşan 785 La mort et la mémoire sociale: rites funéraires, art et archéologie de la tombe à Byzance et en peripherie / Death and Social Memory: Funerary Practices and the Art of the Tomb in Byzantium and Beyond Conveners: Andreas Nicolaïdès, Maria Parani 811 Food, Environment and Landscape in Byzantium Conveners: James Crow, Adam Izdebski 852 The Dialectics of Theory and Practice in Byzantine Medicine and Science Conveners: Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Petros Bouras-Vallianatos 862 Byzantium in the Context of World Trade Convener: Liliana Simeonova 897 The Translations of Latin Texts Into Greek and of Greek Texts Into Latin as an Expression of the Cultural Exchange Between East And West (XIII-XV Centuries) Convener: Roberto Fusco 908 The Agency of Inscriptions in Byzantium, in the West And in the Slavonic World Convener: Andreas Rhoby 937 Gesture and Performance in Byzantium Convener: Michael Grünbart 971 Imperial Responses to Pagan Hellenic Education in the Fifth-Sixth Centuries Convener: Fiona Haarer 1010 The Black Sea Region Between East and West in the 13th-15th Centuries: New Sources and Approaches Convener: Sergey Karpov 1056 La fabrique des oeuvres: autographes, brouillons, révisions et éditions Conveners: Antonio Rigo, Brigitte Mondrain Thursday, 25th August 1070 Icons of Space, Icons in Space. Iconography or Hierotopy? Convener: Alexei Lidov 1108 Byzantium – a Narrative in Constant Change Conveners: Ingela Nilsson, Aglae Pizzone 1144 Роль славянских переводов в истории византийской литературы и церковной письменности Conveners: Ђорђе Трифуновић (Đorđe Trifunović), Анатолий А. Турилов (Anatolij A. Turilov) 1183 Historical Geography of Byzantium in the 21st Century: New Methods and Theories Convener: Mihailo St. Popović 1193 Maneuvering the Holy: Spirits, Icons, Indulgences and Mental Mappings in Fifteenth- Eighteenth Century Orthodoxies Conveners: Charles Barber, Elena N. Boeck 1213 Transformation Processes Between Byzantium and the Islamic World Conveners: Alexander Beihammer, Johannes Pahlitzsch 1224 Byzantine World Chronicle as Open Text Conveners: Zoltán Farkas, László Horváth 1249 Les centres et ateliers de copie balkaniques: Scribes, ornemanistes, miniaturistes Convener: Axinia Džurova, Elina Dobrynina 1265 The Evaluation of Sigillographic Data for Research on the History of Byzantium Conveners: Jean-Claude Cheynet, Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt 1296 Exile: Continuity and Change in the Empire of Nicaea Conveners: Dimiter Angelov, Ekaterini Mitsiou 1325 Issues of Sinaitic Iconography Conveners: Maria Panagiotidou, Miodrag Markovic, Nikolas Fyssas, Dionysis Mourelatos 1362 Language and Society. Historical Sociolinguistic Patterns in the Greek of Late Byzantine Historians Conveners: Andrea Massimo Cuomo, Niels Gaul 1386 Changes et échanges monétaires autour de la Méditerranée Orientale après 1204 Conveners: Cécile Morrisson, Pagona Papadopoulou