Byzantium’s (Proverbial) Bureaucracy, or: The Art of Recording and Performing Empire, lecture by Niels Gaul (University of Edinburgh), CEMS, CEU, March 8, 2018, 5:30 pm

On Thursday, March 8, Niels Gaul, University of Edinburgh, will deliver the annual Anna Christidou Memorial Lecture at the Center for Mediterranean Studies, Central European University.

Niles Gaul is A.G. Leventis Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Edinburgh.  His research focuses on the middle and, especially, later Byzantine empire; his recent work has looked at various types of social performances – be it in the form of rhetorical ‘theatre’ or (staged) miracles –, at the scholarly networks permeating late Byzantine society and at the so-called ‘classical tradition’ in the ninth century. He is currently the PI of a Byzantinist-Sinologist project funded by the European Research Council, ‘Classicising learning in medieval imperial systems: cross-cultural approaches to Byzantine paideia and Tang/Song xue’ (CoG 726371, 2017–2022).