Byzantine Education

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Nikolas Churik

Organizer Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Presider Name

Charles Yost; Nikolas Churik

Presider Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame; Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 1

ὁ τύπος νικοποιός: Inscribed Epigram as Image and Sign in the Iconoclastic Epigrams on the Chalke

Presenter 1 Name

Nathan Israel Smolin

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Paper Title 2

The Order of Heaven Reflected in a Mirror: Rhetorical Paraenesis and Technical Literature in Tenth-Century Byzantium

Presenter 2 Name

Erik Z. Ellis

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Paper Title 3

Mary as Teacher in the Syriac Homiletic Tradition

Presenter 3 Name

Andrew Hochstedler

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Start Date

11-5-2019 3:30 PM

Session Location

Valley 3 Stinson 306

Description

This session considers issues in the study of Byzantine education and in particular questions of genre and medium. Modes of education took a a variety of forms and manners of production. The first two consider a turbulent in the ninth century, one from the perspective of visual media and the other from aural. The third paper considers the role that Mary plays in homiletic texts in the Syriac tradition. Nikolas Churik