Dr. Przemysław Marciniak (Schlesische Universität Katowice):

The reception of Byzantium in European culture between 1600 and 2000

Historic conditions have shaped the image and perception of Byzantium in various cultures in different ways. Therefore, Byzantium is for Greece an integral part of history. The second group of countries consists of Russia and the Balkan states whose history was intertwined with that of the Byzantine Empire. The third group embraces those countries that somehow "encountered" Byzantium in its past. However, within this group Byzantium was perceived in very different ways. Approaches by French, English or German writers and thinkers to Byzantine history were different to that of Poland which looked at Byzantium through the Russian mirror. There exists also a group of countries for which Byzantine culture is only a source of literary motives. In my lecture I shall discuss the issue of the representation of Byzantium in modern European culture and literature, mainly (but not only) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My main intention is to show how Byzantine history was used to comment on a contemporary historical situation.

Dr. Przemysław Marciniak,

geb. 1976, studierte klassische Philologie an der Schlesischen Universität Katowice, und modernes Griechisch und Theaterwissenschaften am Collegium Invisibile in Warschau. Von 2000 – 2003 lehrte er als Dozent an der klassischen Fakultät der Schlesischen Universität Katowice. 2003 schloss er seine Promotion zu "Greek Drama in Byzantine Times" ab. Seitdem ist er Assistant Professor an der klassischen Fakultät der Schlesischen Universität Katowice; Forschungs- und Lehraufenthalte am King’s College London und an der Queen’s University Belfast, dem Lincoln College in Oxford, dem Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris, den Instituten für Byzantinistik an den Universitäten München und Wien sowie am Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Forschungsschwerpunkte: Griechisches Drama in byzantinischer Zeit; byzantinisches Theater; byzantinischer Humor; Rezeption von Byzanz in moderner Kultur und Literatur.

Kontakt Dr. Przemysław Marciniak: pmarcin@us.edu.pl

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