Current Projects

Byzantium between Orient and Occident: Appropriation, translation and dissemination of knowledge, ideas and objects

Approaching Byzantium in Ottoman Istanbul: the Reception of the Byzantine Heritage of Constantinople by Scholars from the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century  
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Anti-Jewish Greek literature in late Medieval Crete (15th c.)  
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Negotiating Byzantine Theology and Religious Difference in Russia’s Imperial Borderlands: Intercultural Contacts between the Russian Orthodox Church and Oriental Christianities in the Long Nineteenth Century  
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Bessarion’s contribution to the processes of dissemination of Byzantine cultural heritage in the West during the late 15th century  
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Byzantine Literary History in a Eurasian Context  
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Byzanz an frühneuzeitlichen Höfen. Rezeptionen, Konfrontationen und Projekte  
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Crisis and Transformation of an Old Regime: Circulation of Ideologies and Institutions between Russian and Ottoman Empires, 1768–1774  
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The Greek Treatise 'On the Highly Appreciated and Famous Art of the Goldsmith' - Edition and Interdisciplinary Commentary  
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The Iberian Peninsula between Toletum and Constantinople. Hybrid constellations of religious knowledge  
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A regional study of the Christianization of Crete. Insularity and religious change  
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Hagiotopographie und das Synaxar von Konstantinopel  
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Canon law and historiography as ways of disseminating Eastern Church norms in the Franconian Empire: Collectio Vetus Gallica and Liber Historiae Francorum  
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Commentary on the Ecclesiastical History of John of Ephesus  
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Orbis Romanus? Byzantium and the Roman Legacy in the Frankish World (594–1024)  
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Potentiale einer Objektbiographie: Der hochmittelalterliche Silberkasten im Trierer Domschatz  
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Sakralarchitektur, Ritus und Musik zwischen Byzanz und dem Westen (6.–15. Jahrhundert)  
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Shemarya ha-Ikriti and the Intellectual Cosmos of the Byzantine Jews in the 14th Century  
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Sinners and damned in antiquity and Byzantium  
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Wege der Mönche – Wege der Macht. Mönchische Mobilität und Herrschaftsbildung am Beispiel der Walachei und der Moldau als Knotenpunkte im transimperialen Raum (14.–17. Jahrhundert)  
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The Beginnings of Book Printing in the Ottoman Empire: The Role of Printed Books in the Transmission of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Heritage  
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Zur Rezeption byzantinischer Rechtstraditionen im slawischen und arabischsprachigen Raum  
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»Gurbet Istanbul«: Migranten in der osmanischen Hauptstadt (1453–1800)  
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GRK 2304 Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Martial Cultures

A Bio-Prosographical Study of French Musicians during the Early Italian Wars (1494-1516)  
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Africam defendere. Byzantinische Fortifikationen in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert  
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Byzantium as an argument. Legitimizing Rule and War from rulership of Ivan Grozniy until Feodor Alekseevich (16th and 17th centuries)  
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Captivity, Conditional Freedom, and Bondage in a Late Antique Ecclesiastical Landscape: Discourse and Practice in Sixth- and Seventh-Century Merovingian Francia  
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Der Wehrbau im Wandel. Der spätantike und frühbyzantinische Festungsbau in der Dioecesis Daciae  
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Die ‚Kriegshistoriographie‘ des Orosius – Geschichtsschreibung aus christlich-apologetischer Perspektive  
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Varangians and Slavs as Byzantium's Threat in 18th and 19th Century Russian Pictorial and Textual Culture  
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Geprägte Gelübde – Untersuchungen zu den Votaprägungen anlässlich der Regierungsjubiläen der römischen Kaiser von Antoninus Pius bis Iustinianus I. (138 bis 565 n. Chr.)  
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Gerechtigkeit als konzeptuelle Legitimationsressource in der Propaganda der Kreuzzüge  
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Horos, Sinor, Terminus. Conceptualization of border in Byzantines, Seljuk and Crusader cultures of war from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries  
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The Language of Peace? – Analysing the language of Tertullian  
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Kreuzzugsdebatten auf den allgemeinen Konzilien des 15. Jahrhunderts  
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Kriegertum in Grenzgesellschaften – Waffengräber des 4. –7. Jh. an der byzantinischen Donaugrenze  
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Kriegsdarstellungen und Deutungen in frühneuzeitlichen Reiseberichten zum Osmanischen Reich  
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Recollecting Conflict: Descriptions of war in Early Medieval Italian Narratives  
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Speaking of War: Moldavian and Wallachian Perceptions to the Ottoman Threat during the 14th-16th Centuries  
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Untersuchungen zu Kavalleriedarstellungen in der Spätantike im Osten des Imperium Romanum  
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Studies on the Reception of Byzantine Rulers and Military Conflicts in the Italian Musical Theatre of the Early Modern Period  
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Untersuchungen zur Rolle von Equiden im römischen Militär-Kontext  
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War Discourse in the Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century  
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Miniature from the Chludov-Psalter, showing the construction of a building (MS. gr.129d, fol. 96r. Fig.: Scepkina, Miniatjury chludovskoj psaltyri, Moskau 1977).