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

GRK 2304 Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Martial Cultures

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