Dutch Research Council (NWO), Beyond the Fathers Project, Workshop No. III
Christian Historiography between Empires (4th–8th Centuries)
October 24–25, 2014 at Central European University in Budapest
Workshop Program
Friday, 24 October (Nádor 9, Popper Room)
9:30–9:45 Welcome: Volker Menze (CEU)
9:45-10:00 Introductory remarks: Hagit Amirav (VU, Amsterdam), István Perczel (CEU)
10:00 Keynote Lecture
Roger Scott (University of Melbourne)
Malalas and the New Age of Justinian
11:00–11:15 Coffee break
Session 1: Deconstructing Stereotypes
Chair: Volker Menze (CEU)
11:15 Phil Booth (University of Oxford)
Coptic Narratives from Roman to Islamic Rule: The Chronicle of John of Nikiu
11:40 Nikoloz Alexidze (University of Oxford)
Narrating about the Beginnings: The Interpretive Schemata of Caucasian History
12:05 Nino Doborjginidze (Ilia State University, Tbilisi)
Stereotypes (topoi) of Medieval Georgian Historiography
12:30–13:00 Discussion
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
Session 2: Genres and Methods
Chair: Averil Cameron (University of Oxford)
14:30 Jan Van Ginkel (VU, Amsterdam)
What Makes a Good Story? Alexander as an Exemplum for Readers Then and Now
14:55 Zara Pogossian (John Cabot University, Rome)
The Contents and Methodological Considerations on Early Armenian Literary Production
15:20 István Perczel (CEU)
Hagiography as a Historiographic Genre: from Eusebius to Cyril of Scythopolis, Eustratius of Constantinople and John Moschus
15:45–16:15 Discussion
Saturday, 25 October (Nádor 9, Popper Room)
Session 3: Quellenforschung
Chair: Johannes Den Heijer (University of Louvain)
9:30 Maria Conterno (Ghent University)
Historiography across the Borders: the Case of Islamic Material in Theophanes’ Chronographia
9:55 Christian Boudignon (Aix-Marseille University)
The Source of the 1st Part of Patriarch Nicephorus’s Breviarium (Ἱστορία σύντομος): Ideology, Milieu and Date
10:20 Amir Harrak (University of Toronto)
The Making of a Syriac Chronicler: The Case of the Chronicler of Zuqnin
10:45–11:15 Discussion
11:15–11:30 Coffee break
Session 4: Social and Ideological Context
Chair: Hagit Amirav (VU, Amsterdam)
11:30 György Geréby (CEU)
Eusebius of Caesarea and the Normative History of the Christian Empire
11:55 Sergey Minov (University of Oxford)
Rewriting Scripture as an Exercise in Counter-History: Evidence of the Cave of Treasures
12:20 Niels Gaul (CEU)
The Aftermath of “Senatorial Historiography”: From Theophanes to Theophanes Continuatus
12:45–13:15 Discussion
13:15–15:00 Lunch break
15:00 Keynote Lecture
Robert Hoyland (New York University)
History Writing in the Time of Islam's Beginnings
16:00–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–16:45 Johannes Den Heijer (University of Louvain)
The International Copto-Arabic Historiography Project (ICAHP)
16:45 Round Table Discussion and Concluding Remarks