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M. DIMNIK: Publication: The Dynasty of Chernigov 1146-1246 is now in press with the Cambridge University Press. Paper: “Svyatosha, the First, Prince-Monk of Kievan Rus”, at The Fifth International Hilandar Conference in Raska, Yugoslavia, September 9th-l2th, 2002.
E.C. DODD: Publication: Medieval Painting in the Lebanon (Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, forthcoming). Lectures: “Arab Christian Sources for the Madonna del Latte in italy”, at the University of Leiden, October, 2002, “Madonna del Latte in Italy”, at the Center for the Study of Religion in Society, University of Victoria, November, 2002.
A. FOTIOU: Publication: “John Kaminiates. The Capture of Thessaloniki”, Translation. Introduction and Notes (with D. Frendo), (Australian Association for Byzantine Studies), Byzantina Australiensia 12, Perth 2000. He is currently re-working the text, translation and the commentary of the “Anonymous. ‘On Political Science” for possible pLiblicationin the TTH series edited by Mary Whitby of Merton College, Oxford.
G. GREATREX: Publications: “The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars, A.D. 363-630” (with S. Lieu), Routledge, 2002, on which he writes: “It ... contains numerous translations of sources in Latin, Greek, Syriac, Arabic, Georgian and Armenian, many of them hitherto untranslated into English. it costs about $140 Canadian; I hope, however, that a paperback version will come out in due course. I have put up a website concerning the work, so that I can add in extra comments and bibliography from time to time: its address is: http://aix 1.uottawa.ca/—greatrex/ref.html.” A review of vol.14 of the Cambridge Ancient f/is/on,’, in PhoeiiL (forthcoming). An article on Procopius, Bi’antine and Modern Greek Studies (forthcoming, 2003).
R.P.H. GREENFIELD Apart from his administrative duties and work on So/onion c Magic Trc-’atise,he has been supervising an MA student, Mandy Batke, who is working on a comparative study of effluvia in Mediaeval Western and Byzantine hagiography for her thesis.
P.J. KIERNAN: “I completed the first year of the Ph.D. programme in Classical Archaeology at the University of
Cincinnati. By the end of December [2002] 1shall have finished the course requirements for the Ph.D. I have taken the option to write an M.A., though, and shall write a dissertation on the topic of the architecture of Piazza Armerina and its relation to other late antique/early Byzantine 5 villas in Sicily and North Africa. I spent the first half of the summer as a participant in the American Academy at Rome’s Summer Program in Archaeology. This involved three weeks living in the AAR’s villa on the Janiculum and two weeks at excavations in Cavallino in Apulia (Univ. of Lecce) and two weeks at Monte Polizzo in Sicily (Stanford). Ironically, horse meat is a favourite in Apulia and we had it at every meal in Cavallino. The second half of the summer I spent in the Römisiche-Gerrnanisches Museum, Köln working on the same coin hoard as last year. I have now realised that this is the largest known hoard of bronze coins of Postumus with 323 specimens, though this is minute in relation to the Cunetio treasure of Gallic antoniniani (at 1%, technically silver coins) which numbers 54,941.”
A.R. LITTLEWOOD: Publications: (ed. with H. Maguire & J. Wolschke-Bulrnahn) Byzu,itine Garden Culture, Dumbarton Oaks,
Washington, D.C., 2002 (including essays on “The Scholarship of Byzantine Gardens”, pp. 13- 21, “Possible Future Directions”, pp. 2 15-229, Bibliography and indexes, 23pp. 1-260). Review of E. Fryde, The Ear/v Palaeologan Renaissance (1261—1360,),in Speculuni 77 (2002), pp. 1288-1290. Lecture: “Gardens and Open Spaces of Byzantine Constantinople”, at conference on “Reconstructing Byzantine Constantinople: New Perspectives from Archaeology and History”, University of Reading, England, October 26th, 2002.
E.M. McGEER: Publications: “Thematic Index” (with the collaboration of Chrysavgi Koutsikou and Platon Petridis) for the Economic I.Jistori’ of B3’zantiuln from the Seventh through the Fifieenth Century (ed. A. E. Laiou), 3 voll., Dumbarton Oaks, 2002, vol. 3, pp. 1171-1183. “Two military orations of Constantine VII”, in J. Nesbitt (ed.), Byzantine Authors. Li!era’ Activities and Preoccupations. Texts and Translations Dedicaied to the Memoi o/Nicolas Oikonomides, Leiden, Brill (forthcoming, 2003), pp. 111-135. The chapter on “Byzantine Military Literature” for the Oxjbrd Handbook o/Bzantine Studies (forthcoming, 2003). Completion (with John Ncsbitt) of Volume 5 of the Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the Fogg Museum ofAri: The East and Constantinople, which is scheduled to appear in 2003 (editing and completion of section left partially prepared by Professor Oikonomides at his death). He is currently working, in collaboration with John Nesbitt, on an annotated translation of Skylitzcs Continuatus.
M. MILWRIGHT (career to date): Doctoral thesis (‘D.Phil.,Oxford), “Trade and Patronage in Middle Islamic Jordan: the Ceramics of Karak Castle”. Publications:
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To sum up Daniel Sahas’ activities during his presidency: he represented the Canadian Committee of Byzantinists at two international conferences of the A.1.E.B., namely at Moscow and Copenhagen where he also participated in the election of the executive. We surely will miss Daniel and Sophia, but can only hope that with the help of electronic mail which has melted away the “vast distances”, they will stay in touch with us individually and with the Canadian Committee of Byzantines generally. For now we say adieu, and wish them a happy and prosperous life in Greece. Franziska E. Shiosser
NEW PROGRAMMES IN ORTHODOX THEOLOGY
A programme leading to the degree of Master of Arts in Orthodox Theology began in September in Toronto at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (59 Queen’s Park Crescent East, tel. 416-926-1300, ext. 3440). Although it is administered by the University of Sherbrooke in Québec, spiritually it is under the Greek Orthodox Church, the Orthodox Church in America and the other Orthodox Churches of Canada. The courses are offered on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening from 7pm to 10pm. The programme began with thirteen students, five of whom are Greek-Canadian and the rest Canadians of various other backgrounds. During the first semester of the academic year 2002-2003 six courses have been given, three preparatory and three graduate. The preparatory courses are: 1) Introduction to Orthodox Theology; 2) Introduction to Orthodox Biblical Studies; 3) The Liturgical life and tradition of the Orthodox Church. The graduate courses are: I) Hellenistic Philosophy and Orthodox Theology; 2) Biblical Theology; 3) Ecclesiology of the Orthodox Church through an examination of the original sources. These courses are taught by Rev. Professor Pavlos Koumarianos, who is the director of the programme, Dr. Andreas Andreopoulos and Professor Richard Schneider. According to the backgrounds of the faculty, the main areas of specialization offered at the Toronto programme are Patristics, Liturgies, Biblical Theology, and Sacred Art. Rev. Professor Pavlos Kournarianos studied Theology in Athens and Rome and is currently writing a second doctoral dissertation for the Faculty of Theology of the University of Thessaloniki. He is also completing a postdoctoral study for the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. His doctoral research in Rome was in the field of Worship and Liturgics, while his second dissertation is in Patristics. Rev. Koumarianos is a priest of the Greek Orthodox Church, serving in one of the four churches of the Greek Community of Toronto and is a member of the diocesan council. He teaches Liturgies, Hagiology and Canon Law at the Theological Academy of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto. He is also teaching at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, and has published extensively in academic theological journals. Dr Andreas Andreopoulos studied Education, Psychology, Philosophy, Theology and Sacred Art in Greece, Toronto and Britain. He completed his doctoral dissertation at the Department of Theology in Durham, England, with the eminent patrologist Andrew Louth; and he subsequently studied Sacred Art at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. He has taught theology at St Michael’s University and theology and art at Concordia University. Dr Andreopoulos has published several articles in academic journals, covering theological, psychological and artistic issues, and has written a book of fiction. 10
Professor Richard Schneider has taught Church History and Sacred Art for over thirty years at York University, and also Liturgical Art at St Vladimir’s Theological Seminary, New York. He too teaches at St Paul’s University, Ottawa. He is a member of the Orthodox Church in America and a member of its diocesan council and is president of the church council of the OCA parish Christ the Saviour. He has published many theological articles and has successfully organized theological conferences. For further information please contact Rev. Professor Pavlos Koumarianos or Dr Andreas Andreopoulos at 416-926-1300 ext. 3440 (both), or at [email protected] and [email protected] repectively. Another, sibling, programme in Master of Arts in Orthodox Theology, specializing in Patristics and Biblical Theology, is due to begin in Montreal in September of 2003. The founder of this programme is Professor John Hadjinicolaou, a multi-faceted and multi-talented academic, something that is reflected in his personality and his academic specialization in various fields such as Environment Architecture and Theology. He teaches at the Universities of McGill, Concordia and Sherbrooke and is a member of the International Council of the Protection of the Environment of the United Nations, and of the diocesan council of the Orthodox Church in America. For further information on this programme, please contact Dr John l-ladjinicolaou at John [email protected]. .4ndreas Andreopoulos
AN M.A. PROGRAMME IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Geoffrey Greatrex reports that the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa is “in the process of establishing an M.A. which will focus on late antiquity (A.D. 200-700). It will be a one-year course with a mernoire (rather than a thesis) and will offer students a thorough grounding in the period. More information will follow; the first admissions will be in autumn 2004.”
TEACHING BYZANTINE HISTORY IN ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMMES
Although Byzantine studies have gained a foothold in Canada, the subject is by no means taught as widely in universities as it should be. Even the University of Toronto, the self-styled
Harvard of the north, whose commemorative banners proclaim 175 years of’“great minds”, has never seen fit to improve any of those minds with programmes, much less the odd survey course, in Byzantine history. But one avenue lies open to specialists in this field who would like to offer a course in Byzantine studies. Many universities now have extension or adult education programmes which might well be open to a proposal to teach a course in Byzantine history or art. The School for Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto is one such programme. Over the past eight years I have taught several courses in Byzantine history, or in related subjects such as the Crusades, and as the SCS casts its nets ever wider to haul in the middle-aged baby boomers, the opportunity to develop more courses looms ahead.
Having taught at the university and the high-school level. I can say that these adult education courses have proven to be the most rewarding teaching that I have done. This is not to say that undergraduate or high-school teaching comes a distant second in comparison; but the 11 level of interest and commitment of undergraduates and high-school students does tend to vary, and there are days when the little lambs in my high school would rather indulge their love of frolicking than heed the wise shepherd. By contrast, the students attending continuing studies courses are there by choice. They listen, they ask good questions, and they take a sincere interest in the material. Some have taken other courses in history and wish to extend their range of knowledge; some have related interests in art or rnediaeval studies; and some are seeking to learn more about their ethnic or religious heritages. Something I find amusing, but telling, is the admission by nearly all adult students that they hated history in high school, loathing the subject as a dull procession of names, dates, etc. Once having gone on in life, though, and having acquired a wider range of experience, they find that courses in history offer a context or explanation for current events and their encounters with foreign cultures. Perhaps the greatest asset of Byzantine history is its relevance to so many other subjects, and teaching adults plays to this strength. They are more receptive to Byzantine history as part of the deeper background to events in the Middle East, the tragedy of Yugoslavia, or the cultural, religious, and political divisions between eastern and western Europe. Many, too, after devoting years to a career or profession, wish to cultivate or resume interests which time and other commitments did not allow earlier. History for them has gained a significance which is sometimes hard to communicate to younger students who, through no fault of their own, have not yet seen much of life outside their immediate circumstances. Toronto is home to large Greek and Slavic communities, always a ready source of students, but 1have also met students from other, smaller groups such as Coptic, Syriac, and even Maronite Christians. Often they have remarkable stories of their own to tell. During a break, one gentleman of Armenian origin told me that his family had lived near Lake Van. Ilis grandfather was assigned to the local Turkish police chief as an errand-boy, and so was spared when the Armenian population was deported or massacred in 1915-1916. Another student, an elderly German gentleman who had lived briefly in istanbul after leaving Germany in the 1930s, could remember the outbreak of the First World War and had seen the Kaiser at a military review in 1917. He had also laid eyes on Kernal Ataturk. Many students have also travelled widely, or are intending to travel, in the lands that once belonged to the Byzantine or Ottoman Empires. This wealth of backgrounds and perspectives gives a course much greater immediacy, and makes Byzantine civilisation less remote than it must seem to students in university and high school. The length and structure of the courses depend on factors not strictly academic. The SCS is always scrambling for rooms - I had one classroom in the zoology building and taught under the glassy stare of stuffed penguins - and is always trying to reduce costs, so the number of hours must be adjusted to ever changing conditions. I usually divide a course on Byzantine history into three sections, early, middle, late, with eight to ten meetings allotted to each one. The classes are two hours in length. The approach I have found most effective is to present a formal lecture in the first hour, covering the history and historiography of a given period. The second hour is given to a seminar on some aspect of Byzantine life or culture, based on primary sources or slides. Descriptions of ancillary disciplines such as palaeography, numismatics, or sigillography, acquaint the students with the methods of studying Byzantine civilisation. Another topic which has piqued their interest is the history of Byzantine studies, and the tradition of Byzantinology in different countries. Byzantine scholars have certainly been a pretty entertaining lot over the years - one thinks of Vasiliev weeping every year as he tried to finish his lecture on the fall of Constantinople - and the students enjoy hearing about the personalities who have made important contributions to the field. It affords the opportunity to talk about changing attitudes towards 12
Byzantium in the English-speaking world, as well as the legacy of such scholars as Bury, Lernerle, or Ostrogorsky. It also opens the way for students to offer their thoughts or questions and, in some cases, their own expertise in certain subjects. A presentation on Byzantine coins once prompted a gentleman to bring in his private, very impressive, collection of Crusader coins, while a reading of the Pantokrator typikon elicited a lively response from a group of doctors and nurses attending the course. 1hope that my entirely positive experience in teaching Byzantine history in this milieu will lead others to consider the possibility themselves. On another note, I suspect that adult education programmes may be the salvation of the humanities. It is increasingly difficult to persuade younger student of the merits of a degree in classics or history; understandably, they tend to head for “career-bound studies in business or various professions, often at the encouragement of guidance counsellors and parents who read economic forecasts and look upon university as a vocational school. Yet it is my impression, from visiting graduates of my high school, that they do not find these studies intellectually challenging or stimulating, and that they would like to take at least one course in literature, history, or art. The availability of continuing studies programmes, not necessarily leading to a degree but aimed at fostering knowledge and interests in the humanities, may present a useful complement to professional courses, or offer a good programme to return to once a career path has been established. There is no shortage of students at university these days, especially in Ontario, and as the general population ages and enters retirement, there will certainly be a growing number of people eager for the sort of intellectual enrichment that Byzantine studies can provide. Eric McGeer
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN BATURYN (EASTERN UKRAINE) IN 2002
As was reported in Canadio-Bvzaniina 13(2002), the summer of 2001 saw the flrst season of the joint excavations in Baturyn by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS), Toronto, and the University of Chernihiv. The second season took place this past summer. The expedition was sponsored, in part, by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), the Shevehenko Scientitc Society of America, and by other donors. The University of Chernihiv provided some 70 students and scholars led by Dr Volodyrnyr Kovalenko. Dr Volodymyr Mezcntsev represented PIMS and CIUS at the site. Prof. Martin Dimnik (PIMS) oversaw the funding and helps to publicize the excavations in academic publications. Archaeological explorations have revealed that mcdiaeval Baturyn had contacts with the Byzantine Empire. Although the Mongols destroyed it around 1239, in the seventeenth century the Cossacks set it up as the capital of the Hetman State. In 1708, after Hetman Ivan Mazepa had joined the Swedes, Peter the Great sent troops which massacred the population of Baturyn. In 2002 the expedition uncovered almost completely the foundations of the hetman’s palace, thereby establishing its architectural design. The digs revealed the foundation of a contemporaneous wooden church nearby and the remnants of a rich urban house. Once again skeletal remains of victims of Peter’s massacre were unearthed. The excavations also yielded weapons and tools, a gilded copper icon, bronze and silver ornaments for women, a fragment of brocade embroidered with golden and silver threads, ceramic tobacco pipes, and fragments of pottery and glass ware. Numerous finds of Western European and Russian silver and copper
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