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Studying Byzantine Prayer Books: Manuscripts, Liturgy, and Society

Workshop, 22.06.-23.06.2018

In cooperation with University of Vienna
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Konstantinos Manasses und Eirene Sebastokratorissa, Cod. Vind. phil. gr. 149, f. 10r, © Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081-1204)

Perceptions, Motivations, and Functions
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Buchpräsentation der Regesten KAISER FRieDRICH BARBAROSSAS

Einladung zur Präsentation des abschließenden Bandes der „Regesten Kaiser Friedrich Barbarossas“ am 10. Oktober 2018.
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radio klassik Stephansdom

Radio-Interview von Stefanie Jeller mit Renate Kohn zu Friedrich III.
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Francesco Borri

hat mit 1. September 2018 seine neue Stelle als Ricercatore Universitario an der Università Ca’Foscari, Dipartimento di Studi...
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Langobarden lebten in multikulturellen Siedlungen

Eine internationale Studie unter Beteiligung von Mittelalterforscher/innen der ÖAW wirft neues Licht auf die Zusammensetzung von...
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600 Jahre Melker Reform (1418–2018)

In der Stiftsbibliothek Melk wird das Jubiläumsjahr dieser wichtigsten benediktinischen Reformbewegung des 15. Jahrhunderts mit einer...
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Von Abrogans und Nibelungen in Admont

Vor kurzem ist der Katalog zu einer in der Stiftsbibliothek Admont gezeigten Sonderausstellung von Sensationsfunden deutscher...
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Events

Poster Rethinking Retrospective Diagnosis in Pre-Modern Medical History
23.10.2018

Rethinking Retrospective Diagnosis in Pre-Modern Medical History

Evening Lecture with

Deborah Thorpe (Trinity College Dublin)

 

Poster uthority & Authorship
24.10.2018

Authority & Authorship

Rethinking Scholastic Communities across Medieval Eurasia II

 

Interdisciplinary Workshop

 

06.11.2018

Gender and inheritance patterns in Rural Europe

Women as wives, widows, daughters, sisters

Lecture and Discussion with Martine Segalen

 

Blog

Louis II of Italy and the Kaiserbrief (841/842?)

The current blog entry is dedicated to the relations of Louis II of Italy (840-875) with the Byzantine Empire in the earliest phase of his reign in Italy.

 

What is so fascinating about the Avars?

Walter Pohl

October 1, 2018 | Walter Pohl | HI Research Blog |

Thirty years ago, my first book came out: it was about the Avars, written in German and had a good 500 pages, about 150 of which were footnotes. In spite of that, the book still sells.1  In many respects, writing it had been a venture into the unknown: far beyond the Latin and Greek world with which I was familiar, into the Central...