04/10/2018 - Ημερίδα | Forum Moving Byzantium XIV (Αυστρία)

The Wittgenstein Project Team invites you to our fourteenth group discussion meeting.

“Forum Moving Byzantium XIV” will take place on Thursday 04.10.2018, from 17:00 to 18:30, at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (University of Vienna, Postgasse 7, 1010 Vienna, Staircase 1, Third Floor, Hörsaal).

The Forum Moving Byzantium XIV will provide the unique opportunity to discuss with Dr. Divna Manolova (University of Silesia in Katowice) her current work on “Creating and Communicating a Worldview: Diagrammatic and Theoretical Accounts of the Cosmos in Palaiologan Byzantium”. After a brief introduction in English, a group discussion will follow, on the basis of the following preparatory readings:

1. Netz, Reviel. “Greek Mathematical Diagrams: Their Use and Their Meaning.” For the Learning of Mathematics 18, no. 3 (1998): 33–39.
2. Baudry, Catherine. “Un traité cosmologique byzantine inédit: Harleianus 5624, ff. 283r-284v.” Byzantion 84 (2014): 1–32.
3. Caudano, Anne-Laurence. “Cosmography, Asceticism and Female Patronage in Late Byzantine and Slavic Miscellanies.” Almagest 8, no. 2 (2017): 29–47.
4. Anderson, Benjamin. “Chapter 4: Byzantine Dissensus.” In Id., Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art, 107–43. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
5. [Optional] Manolova, D., “Wondrous knowledge and the emotional responses of late Byzantine scholars to its acquisition.” In Emotions through Time: From Antiquity to Byzantium, edited by Douglas Cairns. [submitted]

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