List of Plates | Aims and Structure of the Conference - Acknowledgements | Proceedings of the Conference | Introduction. Studies on Material Culture – Some General Considerations | Conference Papers | The Medical Saints of the Orthodox Church in Byzantine Art | The Man in the Street: Some problems of gender and identity in Byzantine material culture | Byzantine Town Planning – Does it Exist? | Incense and Fragrances: from House to Church. A Study of the Introduction of Incense in the Early Byzantine Christian Churches | The Effect of Medicine, in particular the Ideas about Renal Diseases, on the “Well-being” of Byzantine Citizens | Rural Producers and Markets: Aspects of the Archaeological and Historiographic Problem | Byzantium in London? New Archaeological Evidence for 11th Century Links between England and the Byzantine World | Religious Imagery in Mystra. Donors and Iconographic Programmes | Surgery in Byzantium | Spartans and Sybarites at the Golden Horn. Food as Necessity and/or luxury | Life in the Monastic Community: the Living Tradition of the Desert Fathers | Being and Well-Being in Byzantium: The Case of Beverages | Introduction to Material Culture in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens | Textiles and Dress in Byzantium | Galen in Byzantium | The Byzantine Tradition on the Decoration of a 17th Century Sakkos (Inv. No 754) in the Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens | Byzantine Material Culture and Religious Iconography | The Most Precious Thread in Byzantium and Medieval Serbia | The Byzantine House (400–912): Rules and Representations | Magic and the Warding-off of Barbarians in Constantinople, 9th -12th Centuries | To Have and to Have not: Supply and Shortage in the Centres of the Late Antique World | The terminology of Egyptian monastic garments | Closing address: ‘Invisible Byzantiums’ | Basic Bibliography | Index | Plates

Studien zum Alltagsleben haben die Wohnbedingungen, Essen und Trinken, Kleidung, Hygiene und medizinische Betreuung, die Berufe, das Verkehrswesen, generell Produktion und Konsumtion als zentrale Themen. Der materielle Bereich nimmt hierbei breiten Raum ein, das Objekt hat freilich über seine Sachexistenz hin häufig auch eine geistige Funktion als Träger bzw. Symbol von Vorstellungen oder Wertigkeiten. Das internationale Symposium in Cambridge 2001, welches die Wiener Byzantinistik zu seinen Organisatoren zählte, war deshalb bestrebt, Well-Being / Wohlbefinden als Thematik in seinen materiellen, rechtlichen und philosophisch-religiösen Komponenten als facettenreiches Miteinander zu erfassen. Die dreiundzwanzig Beiträge, welche – nach einer Einführung in den generellen Forschungsstand und zukünftige Perspektiven – in der Aktenpublikation dargeboten werden, behandeln demgemäß u.a. Aspekte wie Stadtplanung, Duftstoffe in der weltlichen und kirchlichen Sphäre, magische Praktiken und Medizinheilige, Kleidung als Prestigeelement und Formen von Überfluss und Verknappung in der byzantinischen Ernährung.

Gedruckt mit Unterstützung des Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung Studies on everyday life commonly focus on housing conditions, eating and drinking, clothing, hygiene and medical care, professions, land and sea communications, and generally, on production and consumption. Material objects are dominant in these areas; nevertheless, mental aspects can also frequently be considered the carrier and/or symbol of concepts or values. For this reason, an international symposium held in Cambridge in 2001, which counted the Viennese Institute of Byzantine Studies among its organizers, was intent upon including the concept of "well-being" in its multi-facetted aspects, in the material, legal and philosophical-religious dialogue.

Proceedings of the International Conference (Cambridge, 8-10 September 2001)

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