Byzantine Appropriation of the Past: The Heritage of Constantine VII Revisited, lecture by András Németh (Vatican Library), Harvard University, April 11, 2016, 4:30 pm

Co-sponsored by Medieval History Workshop and the Mahindra Humanities Center Seminar in Book History.

András Németh is one of the two curators of Greek manuscripts at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana. Before this post, he was a research scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin and a research librarian at the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. His research interests focus on the cultural history of tenth-century Byzantium and the reception of Greek manuscripts in Renaissance libraries. He is currently revising his PhD thesis, gained at Central European University (Budapest), on the Byzantine Excerpta historica for Cambridge University Press and a monograph on the Greek manuscripts of the Corvinian Library of King Matthias Corvinus. He was the chief organiser of the first Winter School in Greek Palaeography at the American Academy in Rome.