Colloquia Ceranea III

15–17 APRIL 2021 Programme

15 April / all hours are CEST, UTC+2 11.50 Conference opening

12.00 Mariyana Tsibranska–Kostova The Slavic South and : Prochiron and its Slavic Translation in the 13th Century - Traditions, Functions, Statehood

13.00 Panel: Bogomil religious culture; written, oral and landscape organizer: Andrew P. Roach moderator: David Zbíral Maja Angelovska-Panova The Phenomena of in Context of Hagiographic Literary Works Bojana Radovanović Spreading the word: the role of the oral transmission and Biblical exegesis among the Bogomils Andrew P. Roach Bogomils in context: Religious Culture in the tenth century Bulgarian empire Jan Mikołaj Wolski Letter of Patriarch Teophilact and heresies in Bulgaria

15.00 Lunch break

Panel: Infidels, heresies and heresiology in the Byzantine World

16.00 moderator: Maja Angelovska-Panova Dženan Dautović The krstjani from Bosnia in antiheretical treatises from Western Europe: knowledge based on experience or from projection? David Zbíral From History to Identity Narrative and Back: Discussing the Beginnings of the Cathars (12th-13th Century) Piotr Czarnecki If not Bogomilism than what? The origins of Catharism in the light of the sources Vladislav Atanassov Тhe Eucharistic Controversy between the Official Church and the Early Representatives of Bogomilism and Catharism

18.00 moderator: Piotr Czarnecki Chiara Di Serio Customs of the Brahmans and Other Barbarian Peoples in the Byzantine Chronicles Martina Čechová Crimean Cherson and the “heretics”: what was the relationship between the locals and the exiles? Yuri Stoyanov Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa & Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence Julian Wood To Fight a Schism with a Sura: The Islamic Lexis of Christian Image- Debates in 9th-Century Syria 15 April

13.00

Panel: Diaetetics as medicine for body and soul: dietary qualities in byzantine medicine organizer: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann moderator: Günter Prinzing

Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann A Byzantine Burnout-Therapy Danilo Valentino Cooking Plants for Healing Diseases. Vegetable Decoctions from the Anthologium Iatrosophicum in MS. Panorm. XIII C 3 Elias Valiakos Dosage of drugs and diet for treatments in Nikolaos Myrepsos’ Dynameron Frederick Lauritzen Kekaumenos and Absinthe

15.00 Lunch break

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium

16.00 moderator: Maciej Kokoszko Laurence Totelin Intimate cosmetic care in Byzantine medical treatises Sean Coughlin Recreating Democritus’ Part Tricks Chiara Thumiger Πόθεν φρενῖτις? The popular reception of the disease phrenitis in Christian sources

18.00 moderator: Laurence Totelin Giuseppe Squillace Preliminary notes on the physician Krateuas (II-I Century BC). A New Collection of his Testimonies and Fragments Maciej Kokoszko Anthimus on trutledoves, starlings and bustards Zofia Rzeźnicka „Lepores vero si novelli…”, i.e. about connections between medicine and culinary art in Anthimus’ De observatione ciborum Nikos Tsivikis, Thanasis Sotiriou, Olga Karagiorgou, Ilias Anagnostakis On the vine road between Bithynia and the East: Production and Consumption of the Amorian wine in the Middle Byzantine period

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16 April / all hours are CEST, UTC+2

Panel: Food and medicine in Byzantium

13.00 moderator: Maciej Kokoszko Veronika Kelbecheva The Language of Medicine used in Medicinae ex Holeribus et Pomis by Gargilius Martialis Petkova Gergana, Ivanova Vanya Eponyms in Latin Medical Terminology Derived from a Toponym (Compared with their Bulgarian and English Equivalents) Tatiana Popova Naming of Food and Drinks in the “Ladder” of John Climacus Daniel Asade, Paola Druille The Syriac christianization of a medical Greek recipe: From Bárbaros Héra to the ‘Apostles´ Ointment’

15.00 Lunch break

16.00 moderator: Frederick Lauritzen Maciej Gdaniec Coaches, athletes – relationships and selection for training according to Flavius Philostratos Maciej Helbig The Byzantine garden – what to plant in the garden according to 12th book Geoponica by Cassianus Bassus Lilia Isabel López Ferman Galactology in Spanish medicine, 16th and 17th centuries Ekaterina Dikova The Saint as Food, the Torture as Medicine: Some Aspects of Christopher of Mytilene’s Imagery in His Dodecasyllabic Calendar and Its Translations in South Slavonic

18.00 moderator: Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov, Margaret Dimitrova To Nourish and to Heal in Equal Measures: Food and Cooking Methods in the Healing Practices of Byzantine and Medieval Slavonic Cultures Thomas Daiber Mens sana in corpore - Body and Soul in Vita Cyrilli Irina Kuzidova-Karadzhinova Distribution of the Dietary Calendars among the Slavs in the Middle Ages Ekaterina Todorova Mental Illnesses in the Middle Ages and their Reflection in the South Slavonic Hagiographic Literature John Wilkins ‘Whole Substance’ in ’s Simple Medicines

16 April

Panel: Infidels, heresies and heresiology in the Byzantine World

13.00 moderator: Andrew P. Roach Petra Melichar Maria the nun Makaria and the last entry of the Synodikon of Orthodoxy Paolo Angelini Περὶ αἱρετικῶν: heresies in the Syntagma of Blastares Pavla Gkantzios Drápelová Prokopios on the Religion of the Slavs: A statistical approach Johann Anton Zieme The De haeresibus et synodis of Germanos I of as a source on early Byzantine heresies? Prospects of a critical edition and commentary

15.00 Lunch break

16.00 moderator: Petra Melichar Boris Stojkovski Saint Sava and Konstantin Mihailović: two Serbian medieval views on Islam Ivelin Ivanov Crusading in Livonia and Romania (end of the 12th – beginning of the 13th century). An attempt at a comparative approach Silvia Notarfonso Giulio Mancinelli, a Jesuit missionary between and Constantinople (1575-1586)

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17 April / all hours are CEST, UTC+2

9.00 Stephanie Roussou Why textual criticism of obscure grammatical texts matters

10.00 moderator: Ekaterina Dikova Anissava Miltenova Once Again about the Multifold Slavonic Translations and Their Context: "On Prayer" by Evagrius of Pontus Vladislav Knoll Written languages in Wallachia during the reign of Neagoe Basarab (1512-1521) George Michailidis Prostitution in the early and middle Byzantine period. Saints former prostitutes, holy fools and merciful monks Margarita Papageorgiou An approach of the language of George of Nikomedia

12. 00 moderator: Mitko Panov Marcin Böhm Constantine X (1059-1067) versus Uzes - about the Nomads on boats on the Danube in 1065 Arkadiusz Filip Siwko A commonwealth of interest in the Rus’ian-Byzantine treaty (944/5) Francesco Dall’Aglio Between Rebellion and Statesmanship: Attempting a Biography of Ivanko, 1196/1200 (?) Kirił Marinow Tărnovgrad viewed by the Others: Bulgarian capital city in the light of Byzantine sources

14.00 Lunch break

15.00 moderator: Francesco Dall’Aglio Andrzej Kompa Was John Malalas the author of the 18th book of Chronography? - a few additional points Nikolaos Kostourakis Literary Representations of Descent and Social Mobility: the Case of the Lakapenoi Paweł Lachowicz The Title Hierarchy of the Last Komnenoi and the Dynasty – From Sebastohypertatos to Sebastokrator

17 April

16.30 moderator: Kirił Marinow Grigorios Papagiannis, Maria Tziatzi-Papagianni, Vasileios-Alexandros Kollias, Anastasia Nikolaou The portrayal of the Empire’s ruler in the novels of Leo VI the Wise Mitko B. Panov Ideology behind the Naming: On the origin of Basil II’s appellation ‘Scythicus’ Teresa Wolińska The Use of the Title of in Procopius’ Writings and Basileia of Arethas Yanko Hristov, Dafina Kostadinova “Because to this day … the plain near the city called Anchialos housed the bones of the massacred…”: Chr. 72 of Patriarch Nikephoros' Antirrheticus III as a historical source.

18.30 moderator: Teresa Wolińska Raffaele D’Amato, Dmytro Dymydyuk The sword with the sleeve cross-guard in the fresco from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Aghtamar Island Michael Selzer Byzantine Aesthetics and the Concept of Symmetry Magdalena Garnczarska On the meaning of gold backgrounds in the panels of the Deesis in the and the donor portrait of Theodore Metochites in the church of the Chora monastery

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