Grand Decoration in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria awarded to Claudia Rapp
On 22 June 2026, the Department of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna held an academic ceremony at the Austrian Academy of Sciences to honour Claudia Rapp's scholarly achievements on the occasion of her 65th birthday.
Maria-Lucia Goiana, Krystina Kubina, Christodoulos Papavarnavas and Giulia Rossetto, members of both her home institutions, the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presented her with the Festschrift Cosmopolitan Byzantium: People, Ideas, and Interactions (Millennium Studies 121), Berlin: De Gruyter 2026.
The ceremony concluded with the presentation of the Grand Decoration in Silver for Services to the Republic of Austria to Claudia Rapp by ÖAW President Heinz Faßmann.
De Medio Aevo Moral Meteorologies.
The concept of “moral meteorology” has been first introduced into the study of Late Imperial China.
With several examples, this introduction demonstrates its applicability to earlier periods of East Asian history
and beyond across the ancient and medieval word before briefly referring to the contents of the special issue
devoted to this topic.