Lajos Berkes
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Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Philippika-Preis des Harrassowitz Verlags sowie dem Ruprecht-Karls- und dem Dr. Gerhard Ott-Preis der Universität Heidelberg ausgezeichnet.
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of debt in kind from 371 or 406 AD.
literary and semi-literary papyri from Byzantine and early Arab Egypt.
Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Philippika-Preis des Harrassowitz Verlags sowie dem Ruprecht-Karls- und dem Dr. Gerhard Ott-Preis der Universität Heidelberg ausgezeichnet.
of debt in kind from 371 or 406 AD.
literary and semi-literary papyri from Byzantine and early Arab Egypt.
This conference is the final event of the collaborative research project ‘Documentary Snapshots from Seventh-Century Egypt: Local Responses to Regime Transitions,’ conducted at University College London (PI Nikolaos Gonis) and at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (PI Lajos Berkes), and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. We will discuss old and new sources of the seventh century, revisiting some of the key questions of this crucial period, especially administrative, societal, and religious continuity and change.
The workshop will provide an inter-disciplinary overview of the various perspectives emerging from the Christian Oriental, Byzantine, Early Islamic and Archaeological approaches to this area of research. The key objective of the workshop is to explore the possibilities of a unified and holistic approach to understanding the “Sattelzeit” (R. Koselleck) – i.e. the period between 500 and 750 CE. While the scope of the workshop has been intentionally left broad, the papers will primarily focus on the following areas:
- The role of Eastern/Oriental Christians in the relationship(s) formed between the Islamic Caliphate and the Byzantine Empire.
- Scripture and Arts as a medium of interchange between Christians and Muslims.
- The historical narratives and administrative reality of the expansion of the Islamic Empire.
- The workshop will take place on 7th – 8th December, 2017 at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and is the collaborative effort of the Chair of Byzantine Studies (FU Berlin), Radboud University, and Gorgias Press.
We hope that the workshop will encourage fruitful discussions about the state-of-the-art of the field and highlight potential areas for future inquiry. We further expect the workshop to provide a platform for both established researchers in the field and early-career academics (including advanced Ph.D. students). The workshop proceedings will be published in an edited volume by Gorgias Press.