The present volume sheds light on an extraordinarily wide array of subjects concerning the Culture and History of South Eastern Europe over the last five hundred years. Aspects of political, economic and social history, interdisciplinary views on the change of mentalities during the passage from the medieval to the modern period and during the complex modernizing process in South Eastern Europe are discussed in case studies or comparative overview papers by specialists from the fields of South...

1904 wurde in Chalkida einer der bedeutendsten Komponisten Griechenlands geboren: Nikos Skalkottas. Zu seinen Lebzeiten verkannt und kaum aufgeführt, rückte der Meisterschüler Schönbergs erst in den letzten Jahren verstärkt in das Bewusstsein des internationalen Publikums und die Aufmerksamkeit der musikalischen Forschung. Die Veranstaltung zu seinem 100. Geburtstag stellte den griechischen Avantgarde-Komponisten erstmals in Wien ins Zentrum eines ihm alleine gewidmeten internationalen...

In December 2002, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Institut für Byzantinistik und Neogräzistik of the University of Vienna a symposium was organized in memory of the Institute’s founder, Herbert Hunger. About 40 former students and graduates of the Institute gave reports on various subjects of their research activities. The contributions now presented in printed form cover a broad variety of subject areas such as history and society, language and literature, fine arts and...

Famous today mostly for his patronage of the decoration of the Monastery of the Chora, Theodore Metochites had wanted to be remembered for his literary works. Prime Minister by day, scholar by night, he was called a “living library” by his protege Gregoras, but mocked as a corrupter of belles lettres by such friends as Xanthopoulos and enemies as Choumnos alike. None of Metochites’s writings better prove both these assessments than his twenty Poems in hexametre. The present work presents a...

This is a metrical study dealing with political verse and other Byzantine metres, in which the author presents a survey of the origins and the development of accentual metrics between ca. 400 and ca. 1000. The book focuses on the three rules of versification, upon which the metrical system of the Byzantines rests: isosyllaby, stress regulation and colon structure. But it also provides new insights into the literary history of various Byzantine genres, such as monodies, catanyctic and paraenetic...

Au IVe siècle, les finances municipales se trouvaient au coeur de l'histoire administrative, économique et sociale de l'Empire en général et, en particulier, de sa partie orientale. En utilisant conjointement tous le types de sources -législatifs certes mais aussi papyrologiques, épigraphiques, narratifs, épistolaires ou autres- et après avoir déterminé soigneusement leur apport spécifique, l'auteur reconstitue un mode de gestion parfaitement efficace et remarquablement stable dans l'espace et...