Marc D. Lauxtermann - Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations

In spite of the striking abundance of extant primary material, Byzantine epigraphy remains uncharted territory. The volume of the Proceedings of the 49th SPBS Spring Symposium aims to promote the field of Byzantine epigraphy as a whole, and topics and subjects covered include: Byzantine attitudes towards the inscribed word, the questions of continuity and transformation, the context and function of epigraphic evidence, the levels of formality and authority, the material aspect of writing, and the verbal, visual and symbolic meaning of inscribed texts. The collection is intended as a valuable scholarly resource presenting and examining a substantial quantity of diverse epigraphic material, and outlining the chronological development of epigraphic habits, and of individual epigraphic genres in Byzantium. The contributors also discuss the methodological questions of collecting, presenting and interpreting the most representative Byzantine inscriptional material, and addressing epigraphic material to make it relevant to a wider scholarly community.

Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford.

Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF BYZANTINE STUDIES

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This series publishes a selection of papers delivered at the annual British Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, now held under the auspices of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies. These meetings began fifty years ago in the University of Birmingham and have built an international reputation. Themes cover all aspects of Byzantine history and culture, with papers presented by chosen experts. Selected papers from the symposia have been published regularly since 1992 in a series of titles which have themselves become established as major contributions to the study of the Byzantine world.

Also published in this series:

Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art

Edited by Antony Eastmond and Liz James

Power and Subversion in Byzantium

Edited by Dimiter Angelov and Michael Saxby

Experiencing Byzantium

Edited by Claire Nesbitt and Mark Jackson

Byzantium in the Eleventh Century

Being in Between

Edited by Marc Lauxtermann and Mark Whittow

Cross-Cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 12041669

Whose Mediterranean Is It Anyway?

Angeliki Lymberopoulou

The Emperor in the Byzantine World

Edited by Shaun Tougher

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Sylvain Destephen, Matre de confrences habilit en histoire romaine, Universit Paris Nanterre

Ivan Drpi, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania

Antonio E. Felle, Professore Associato (abilitato Ordinario) di Epigrafia Cristiana e Medievale, Universit degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro

Brad Hostetler, Assistant Professor of Art History, Kenyon College, Ohio

Ine Jacobs, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Associate Professor of Byzantine Archaeology and Visual Culture, University of Oxford

Marc D. Lauxtermann, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Sean V. Leatherbury, Assistant Professor of Art History, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

Maria Lidova, Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Cyril Mango, Emeritus Bywater and Sotheby Professor in Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Anne McCabe, Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford

Nicholas Melvani, , ,

Georgios Pallis, ,

Andreas Rhoby, Stellvertretender Leiter der Abteilung Byzanzforschung, Institut fr Mittelalterforschung, sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Privatdozent, Universitt Wien

Christos Stavrakos, ,

Peter Thonemann, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Wadham College, University of Oxford

Ida Toth, University Research Lecturer and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, , ; Gastforscherin, Institut fr Byzanzforschung, sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften

Maria Xenaki, , ,

The 49th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies was held in Exeter College, Oxford on 1820 March 2016. There were 17 lectures and 16 short communications, with a round table at the end where Elizabeth Jeffreys, Denis Feissel, Sophia Kalopissi-Verti, Marlia Mango, Scott Redford and Charlotte Rouech summed up their impressions and responded to what had been said. There was quite an attendance, for which we are immensely grateful. All this would not have been possible without the kind and generous support of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, the Interfaculty Committee for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and the History Faculty. We are also most grateful to the staff of Exeter College and our energetic student assistants, Elizabeth Buchanan, Matthew Kinloch and Nik Matheou. We should also like to thank Denis Feissel for reading all the papers and providing feedback, and to Marjolijne Janssen for her help in getting the volume ready for publication.