Institute for medieval research
The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences combines two fundamental research strategies: Firstly, a great many projects are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the medieval heritage of Europe and Byzantium. The second research strategy involves tackling issues current in the humanities and in cultural and social studies.
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Paleography and Codicology
The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences combines two fundamental research strategies: Firstly, a great many projects are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the medieval heritage of Europe and Byzantium. The second research strategy involves tackling issues current in the humanities and in cultural and social studies.
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Historical Identity Research
The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences combines two fundamental research strategies: Firstly, a great many projects are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the medieval heritage of Europe and Byzantium. The second research strategy involves tackling issues current in the humanities and in cultural and social studies.
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Editing Projects and Source Research/MIR
The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences combines two fundamental research strategies: Firstly, a great many projects are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the medieval heritage of Europe and Byzantium. The second research strategy involves tackling issues current in the humanities and in cultural and social studies.
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Byzantine Research
The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences combines two fundamental research strategies: Firstly, a great many projects are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the medieval heritage of Europe and Byzantium. The second research strategy involves tackling issues current in the humanities and in cultural and social studies.
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The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences combines two fundamental research strategies: Firstly, a great many projects are concerned with the analysis and interpretation of the medieval heritage of Europe and Byzantium. The second research strategy involves tackling issues current in the humanities and in cultural and social studies.

Tue, 23.05.2023

ChatGPT kann nicht Geschichte schreiben

ChatGPT und andere künstliche Intelligenzen können für Historiker:innen ein sinnvolles Werkzeug sein. Eine Konkurrenz für die Geschichtsschreibung durch den Menschen sind sie aber nicht, sagt ÖAW-Historiker Johannes Preiser-Kapeller.

Byzantine Research

Doz. Dr. Jana Grusková ist auf Vorschlag des früheren griechischen Botschafters in der Slowakei mit der Auszeichnung "Großoffizier…

Text Edition & Source Studies/MIR

Das Jahr 2022 hat der Abt. MIR einen doppelten Erfolg mit hohen FWF-Projektförderungen gebracht

Historical Identity Research

zum heutigen Umgang mit dem Klimawandel. Unter Mitwirkung von V. Wieser und C. Zolles zum Thema „Kulturgeschichte der Apokalypse“.

Paleography & Codicology

Events

Thu, 01.06. – 02.06.2023

Perspectives on Penflourishing in late Medieval Manuscripts

International Conference (Institute of English Studies, School of Advances Study, University of London)

Tue, 04.07. – 06.07.2023

Mittelalterliche Handschriften: erschließen – erforschen – verstehen

Summer School 2023

Social Media

Blog

Wed, 01.02.2023

News from our open access e-Journal Medieval Worlds

Ingrid Hartl

Mon, 23.01.2023

Discovering the Power of AI for Reading Medieval Manuscripts: HTR Winter School 2022

Jan Odstrčilík

Thu, 03.11.2022

The Bogomils, Zeitgeist, lay religiosity, Gnostic-leaning and extra-canonical elements

Bojana Radovanović

Mon, 17.10.2022

The Homiliary of Luculentius - an Overview

Isaac Lampurlanés i Farré

Publications

Walter Pohl, Veronika Wieser, Francesco Borri (eds.)

Historiography and Identity V: The Emergence of New Peoples and Polities in Europe, 1000-1300

Patrick S. Marschner

Das neue Volk Gottes in Hispanien

Andreas Rhoby / Ida Toth (eds)

Studies in Byzantine Epigraphy

Maria Theisen

Illuminierte Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek

Böhmen ‒ Mähren ‒ Schlesien ‒ Ungarn.

Karel Hruza / Roman Zehetmayer (eds)

De interpretandorum fontium arte – Über die Kunst der Quelleninterpretation

Eds. Walter Pohl and Veronika Wieser

Emerging Powers in Eurasian Comparison, 200–1100

Shadows of Empire

Hg. von Markus DEBERTOL/Markus GNEIß/Julia HÖRMANN-THURN UND TAXIS/Manfred HOLLEGGER und Andreas ZAJIC unter Mitarb. von Sonja DÜNNEBEIL

„PER TOT DISCRIMINA RERUM“. MAXIMILIAN I. (1459-1519)

Bernhard Zeller

Diplomatische Studien zu den St. Galler Privaturkunden des frühen Mittelalters (ca. 720-980)

Einblicke in die Göttweiger Bibliotheksgeschichte

Astrid Breith (Hrsg.) unter Mitarbeit von Nikolaus Czifra, Christine Glaßner und Magdalena Lichtenwagner

Vom Schreiben und Sammeln

Einblicke in die Göttweiger Bibliotheksgeschichte

Rutger Kramer and Walter Pohl

Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE

Michael Depreter / Jonathan Dumont / Elizabeth L'Estrange / Samuel Mareel (Hgs.)

Marie de Bourgogne/Mary of Burgundy

‘Persona’, Reign, and Legacy of a Late Medieval Duchess / Figure, Principat et Postérité d’une Duchesse Tardo-Médiévale

Matthias M. Tischler / Patrick S. Marschner (eds.)

Transcultural Approaches to the Bible

Exegesis and Historical Writing across Medieval Worlds

Pavlína Rychterová / David Kalhous (eds.)

Historiography and Identity VI: Competing Narratives of the Past in Central and Eastern Europe, c. 1200-c. 1600

Bendeguz Tobias

Frühmittelalterliche Gräber mit Beigabe von Werkzeugen zur Metallbearbeitung

Valérie Bessey/Sonja Dünnebeil/Paravicini Werner (Eds.)

Die Hofordnungen der Herzöge von Burgund

Band 2: Die Hofordnungen Herzog Karls des Kühnen 1467–1477

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Der Lange Sommer und die Kleine Eiszeit

Klima, Pandemien und der Wandel der Alten Welt von 500 bis 1500 n. Chr.

Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

Die erste Ernte und der große Hunger

Klima, Pandemien und der Wandel der Alten Welt bis 500 n. Chr.

Rutger Kramer / Helmut Reimitz / Graeme Ward (eds.)

Historiography and Identity III: Carolingian Approaches

Institute for Medieval Research of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences

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June 2023

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