Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond: Methods - Projects - Case Studies

Description

The present book, the first collective volume entirely devoted to aspects of Byzantine epigraphy, mainly comprises papers delivered at two international meetings (Vienna 2010, Sofia 2011). The book is divided into four sections and includes among others the following contributions: after an introductory article about the history of the discipline of Byzantine epigraphy Cyril Mango tries to define the term Byzantine inscription and its limits. Vincent Debiais offers some interesting observations by comparing medieval Latin inscriptions from the West with Byzantine epigraphic traditions. The second section of the book bears the title 'Methods of Editing Byzantine Inscriptions': while the paper of Peter Schreiner discusses the urgent necessity of creating a new epigraphic initiative within Byzantine Studies, Walter Koch describes the Western medieval inscription projects in detail. Both Guglielmo Cavallo and Erkki Sironen discuss editorial guidelines while Charlotte Roueche stresses the advantages of creating online-corpora, and Joel Kalvesmaki describes his recently published epigraphic font Athena Ruby. The third section covers articles which report current epigraphic projects: two projects from Greece presented will be published within databases. Maria Xenaki discusses the epigraphic wealth of Cappadocia and its hardly studied graffiti. The last section is devoted to case studies articles. Their content ranges from Late Antiquity (Sencer Sahin, Mustafa Sayar) until the middle and the late Byzantine period (Ida Toth, Linda Safran). Preface 7 List of illustrations 9 List of abbreviations 13 Andreas RHOBY / A Short History of Byzantine Epigraphy 17 Inscriptions in Byzantium and Beyond Cyril MANGO / Some Lessons of Byzantine Epigraphy 33 Vincent DEBIAIS / La tentation de Byzance. Réflexions sur les inscriptions byzantines vues de la Latinité 39 Vasil GJUZELEV / Die byzantinische und die slawische Epigraphik in Bulgarien heute 51 Andrey VINOGRADOV / Byzantinische Inschriften des nördlichen Schwarzmeerraums 55 Methods of Editing Byzantine Inscriptions Peter SCHREINER / Drei Grundfragen zu einem Corpus byzantinischer Inschriften 75 Walter KOCH / Die großen westlichen Corpuswerke zu den mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Inschriften 79 Guglielmo CAVALLO / Corpus delle iscrizioni bizantine e pratiche della cultura scritta. Note su questioni aperte e per prospettive future 93 Erkki SIRONEN / Zu den Richtlinien für die Edition byzantinischer Inschriften 107 Charlotte ROUECHÉ / Byzantine Epigraphy for the 21st Century 115 Joel KALVESMAKI / Introducing Athena Ruby, Dumbarton Oaks’ New Font for Byzantine Inscriptions 121 Current and Future Projects Katerina NIKOLAOU – Irene CHRESTOU / Indices of Published Christian and Byzantine Inscriptions. An Old Project carried through with New Technologies 129 Sophia KALOPISSI-VERTI / Byzantine Dedicatory Inscriptions and Donor Portraits (7th–15th c.). A Project in Progress at the University of Athens 135 Mari XENAKI / Corpus des Graffites en Cappadoce: Introduction 157 Alexandra A. EVDOKIMOVA / Greek Graffiti from St Sophia’s in Constantinople in the Archive of Robert van Nice (Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.) 167 Case Studies Sencer ŞAHIN / Spätrömisch-frühbyzantinische Inschriften aus Perge in Pamphylien 177 Mustafa H. SAYAR / Ziegelstempel von den Ausgrabungen am Nordwestufer des Lagunensees Küçükçekmece 187 Kazimir POPKONSTANTINOV / Greek Inscriptions from Ninth-Tenth Century Bulgaria. A Case Study of Byzantine Epigraphy 195 Ida TOTH / Epigraphic Traditions in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. General Considerations 203 Linda SAFRAN / Greek in the Salento: Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Public Texts 227 Selected Bibliography 241 Index 243 List of Contributors 245