Claudia Rapp Libros

The volume - whose chapters originated at panels at the International Byzantine Congress in Belgrade and at the IMC in Leeds - seeks to offer an introduction into various aspects of social and geographical mobility, and the intrinsic relationship between the two, as well as into the microstructures of social action in the Byzantine world during the high and late Middle Ages. Based on a balanced approach to the role of personal agency and social structure, the authors of the individual chapters seek to clarify how and why various kinds of people mobilized to either change place and/or social position, or to form groups whose actions shaped social reality both at the imperial centre and the provincial periphery.

Mobility and migration were not uncommon in Byzantium, as is true for all societies. Yet, scholarship is only beginning to pay attention to these phenomena. This book presents in English translation a wide array of relevant source texts from ca. 650 to ca. 1450 originally written in medieval Greek: from administrative records, saints’ lives and letters by churchmen to ego-documents by ambassadors and historical narratives by court historians. Each source text is accompanied by a detailed introduction, commentary and further bibliography, thus making the book accessible to both scholars and students and laying the groundwork for future research on the internal dynamics of Byzantine society.

Die Erforschung von Palimpsesthandschriften hat durch neue Methoden wie Multispektralphotographie Fortschritte gemacht. Das Sinai Palimpsests Project untersuchte erstmals eine Sammlung aus dem Katharinenkloster und entdeckte Texte in elf Sprachen. Der Band präsentiert Ergebnisse einer Konferenz von 2018 und bietet 30 Beiträge zur aktuellen Palimpsestforschung.

“Why run from a haunted house when you can stay and ignore the ghosts? Just when you thought you'd seen everything a haunted house novel could do, The September House comes along and delivers an eerie, darkly funny, and emotionally grounded book about the ghosts that haunt houses and marriages."– Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale at a surprisingly reasonable price—they couldn’t believe they finally had a home of their own. Then they discovered the hauntings. Every September, the walls drip blood. The ghosts of former inhabitants appear, and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement. Most people would flee. Margaret is not most people. Margaret is staying. It’s her house. But after four years Hal can’t take it anymore, and he leaves abruptly. Now, he’s not returning calls, and their daughter Katherine—who knows nothing about the hauntings—arrives, intent on looking for her missing father. To make things worse, September has just begun, and with every attempt Margaret and Katherine make at finding Hal, the hauntings grow more harrowing, because there are some secrets the house needs to keep.

Weit mehr als ein Orchideenfach: Ein Essay über die neuesten Entwicklungen der Byzantinistik. Vor zwei Forschergenerationen hat Cyril Mango das Schrifttum der Byzantiner als »Zerrspiegel« bezeichnet und dessen historischen Aussagewert in Frage gestellt. Ein halbes Jahrhundert später gibt dies Anlass zur Reflexion über Entwicklungen von neuen Fragestellungen und neuen Methoden, auch im digitalen Bereich. Mit Metaphern aus der Optik als rotem Faden – wie Zerrspiegeln, Streiflichtern, Seitenblicken und blinden Flecken – blickt Claudia Rapp auf die jüngsten Entwicklungen der Forschungslandschaft zurück und wagt eine Bestandsaufnahme. Was steht im Mittelpunkt des Forscherinteresses und was wird auf diese Weise nicht oder nur sehr selektiv wahrgenommen? Wie hat die Byzantinistik von neuen Forschungsimpulsen in anderen Fachdisziplinen profitiert? Welche Erkenntnisse sind nur dann möglich, wenn das Augenmerk auf nicht-byzantinische Quellen gelenkt wird? Welche Rolle spielen die Entwicklung der akademischen Publikationskultur und die digitale Revolution in diesem Zusammenhang? Es wird deutlich, wie der verstärkte Dialog mit anderen Forschungsrichtungen die Byzantinistik auf neue Wege des Sehens gebracht hat.