ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU VOL. 20 2014 Edited by Judith A. Rasson and Katalin Szende Central European University Budapest Department of Medieval Studies All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the publisher. Editorial Board Niels Gaul, Gerhard Jaritz, György Geréby, Gábor Klaniczay, József Laszlovszky, Judith Rasson, Marianne Sághy, Katalin Szende Editors Judith A. Rasson and Katalin Szende Technical Advisor Annabella Pál Cover Illustration Tree of Jesse. Alţâna (Alcina). Photograph by Anna Kónya. Department of Medieval Studies Central European University H-1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 9., Hungary Postal address: H-1245 Budapest 5, P.O. Box 1082 E-mail: [email protected] Net: http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu Copies can be ordered at the Department, and from the CEU Press http://www.ceupress.com/order.html Volumes of the Annual are available online at: http://www.library.ceu.hu/ams/ ISSN 1219-0616 Non-discrimination policy: CEU does not discriminate on the basis of—including, but not limited to—race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender or sexual orientation in administering its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs. © Central European University Produced by Archaeolingua Foundation & Publishing House TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Preface ............................................................................................................ 5 I. ARTICLES AND STUDIES ........................................................... 7 Andra Jugănaru Living like Angels in the Near East: Men, Women, and “Family” Double Monasteries in Late Antiquity ........................................ 9 Zsuzsanna D’Albini The Choral Dance of Miriam: Changing Iconography in Eleventh- and Twelfth- Century Psalters ............................................................................................. 28 Hervin Fernández-Aceves Social Positions in the Liber de Regno Sicilie: Using Structural Equivalences in an Attempt to Analyze the Narrative of Pseude-Falcandus ........................ 42 Paul Cristian Bujor Quod deus non potest. The Limits of God’s Power in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and their Relation to the 1277 Condemnation ..................... 59 Mária Vargha Medieval Bird-shaped Brooches ....................................................................... 71 Anna Kónya The Virgin Mary, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the Tree of Jesse: The Iconographic Program of the Wall Paintings of the Parish Church in Alţâna (Alzen, Alcina) ...................................................... 81 Andrea Nechita Models of Seduction: The Visual Representation of Women Tempting Saints (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries) ................................................................. 96 Sándor Gyarmati The Great Linen Register of Bardejov (Bártfa) ............................................. 113 Visiting Medievalists ....................................................................... 133 Jenni Kuuliala Miracles and the Disabled Body in the Later Middle Ages ............................ 135 Nino Kavtaria A Georgian-Greek Manuscript (F.956, разнояз.0.I.58): Artistic Tradition in the Fifteenth Century ................................................... 147 Marina Metelko Books at the Crossroads: the Book Culture of Zagreb in the Late Medieval Period .............................. 165 Karolina Mroziewicz The History of Medieval Hungary in the Illustrated Seventeenth-century Lives of Saints .............................................................. 180 Twenty Years of the Department of Medieval Studies ............... 201 Gábor Klaniczay 20 Years of Medieval Studies at CEU. June 14–15, 2013 ......................... 203 Claudia Rapp – Patrick Geary Latin and Greek Middle Ages: A Two-voice Public Lecture ......................... 208 II. REPORT ON THE YEAR ........................................................ 223 Katalin Szende Report of the Academic Year 2012–13 ........................................................ 225 Abstracts of MA Theses Defended in 2013 .............................................. 233 PhD Defenses during the Academic Year 2012–2013 ............................. 252 Marianne Sághy Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches. An International Conference in Budapest, 7–10 March 2013 ...................... 283 Stanislava Kuzmová – Gábor Klaniczay OTKA-Supported Saints Project at the Department of Medieval Studies, 2010–2014 ................................................................................................. 290 Georg Christ – Katalin Szende Trans-European Diasporas: Migration, Minorities, and the Diasporic Experience in East Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean ............................... 296 Gábor Klaniczay Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014) .................................................................... 306 EDITORS’ PREFACE Lectori salutem! Volume 20 of our Annual presents a selection from what the Department of Medieval Studies accomplished in the Academic Year 2012-2013. Articles by our recently graduated MA students comprise the fi rst section of the volume. These offerings show the wide range of subjects – chronologically, topically, and geographically – that our students typically address. The second section is a group of articles written by visiting scholars who were with us for varying lengths of time to conduct research in our medieval library (held jointly with Eötvös Loránd University), the Széchényi Library (the Hungarian national library) and others among the rich academic resources in Budapest. Coming from different regions, Nino Kavtaria was supported by the Higher Education Support Project on the Caucasus run by the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at CEU; Jenni Kuuliala by the Finnish Academy of Science; Marina Metelko by CEU’s Doctoral Support Program; and Karolina Mroziewicz by the Foundation for Polish Science – International PhD Programme. Their papers show the diversity of interests among our visiting graduate and post-graduate researchers. This year we celebrated the Department’s twentieth anniversary, which included presentations by departmental faculty and visiting friends. Patrick Geary and Claudia Rapp gave a two-voice presentation which we have transcribed and share in this volume. Lively panel discussions on topics of current interest such as Space and Place, Material Culture and Social Context, Byzantine & Caucasian Studies, Early Modern Medievalisms, the Cult of Saints and Other Cults, Philosophy, Patristics and Eastern Christianities, as well as Images and Visual Culture were well attended by visiting alumni and current students. A large number of posters decorated the Octagon entry area in the Nádor 9 building, informing everyone about the continuing academic activities of our students long-graduated and new. Gábor Klaniczay organized the celebrations, ably supported by two of our PhD candidates, Eszter Konrád and Theodora Artimon. He reports on the festivities in the third section below. Normally the Annual does not carry obituaries, but in this volume we make an exception. What we offer is more an homage than an obituary for Jacques Le Goff, the prominent French medievalist who presided the Department’s fi rst Advisory Board. His work has had over great impact on us both in terms of general approaches to medieval studies and personally for Gábor Klancizay, founder and former Head of the Department, who was a student and long-time colleague of Le Goff. 5 In the concluding section of this publication we rounded up the usual suspects, as the phrase from the movie “Casablanca” goes. We have assembled reports on the work of the department that include details about the jointly funded European Science Foundation and Hungarian Research Council project: “Communicating Sainthood – Constituting Regions and Nations in East-Central Europe, Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries” and the successful and well-attended two- part conference, organized by Marianne Saghy, on “Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches,” which met in Rome, Budapest, and Pécs. Another report covers the joint German-Hungarian research project on “Trans-European Diasporas: Migration, Minorities, and the Diasporic Experience in East Central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Era” that included conferences and research visits by students and faculty between Heidelberg and Budapest, at which a good time was had by all. The Head’s Report by Katalin Szende, who stepped down as head after three years, covers the activities of the department during the year. This section also contains abstracts of all the MA theses and PhD dissertations defended during this year. These show the wide network of topics and chronological periods where our students situate themselves for future work. In conclusion, we wish to thank everyone who helped in the preparation of this volume, particularly Annabella Pál, One-Year MA Coordinator, and PhD candidates András Kraft and Sandro Nikolaishvili. Also as usual, we salute the Archaeolingua Press for producing a handsome volume. 6 LIVING LIKE ANGELS IN THE NEAR EAST: MEN, WOMEN, AND “FAMILY” DOUBLE MONASTERIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY Andra Jugănaru “τὴν ἀδελφότητα ἀγαπᾶτε”1 (1 Peter 2:17) When our father Pachomius had found that [his sister’s, Maria’s]