From Kondakov to the Hans Belting Library : Emigration and Byzantium – Bridges between Worlds
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Editorship of scientific publication |
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| Description | The present volume came into being with two intentions: to reflect on the roots of Byzantine studies in Central Europe in the interwar period and to celebrate the founding of the Hans Belting Library in Brno. A common idea underlies both, namely, that Byzantine studies are a bridge between cultures. In the present historical moment, with the rebirth of nationalism and xenophobia, Byzantine (and Mediterranean) research takes on a new significance. By its very essence, Byzantium cannot be linked to one single country and thus, as it did between the two wars, becomes a transnational reality, which – sometimes unintentionally – opens to the “other”. |
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