The Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th–10th century), Leuven, September 11–13, 2024

In the framework of a Köln/Leuven joint research project on The Bible in Middle-Byzantine Hagiography, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, we organize a conference 11–13 September 2024 in the Arenberg Castle on the outskirts of Leuven.

The keynote paper will be delivered by Derek Krueger (Greensboro). Other confirmed speakers include Albrecht Berger (Munich), Stephanos Efthymiadis (Nicosia), Laurence Mellerin (Lyon), and Óscar Prieto Domínguez (Salamanca).

We invite proposals for 30-minute papers (English, German or French). The proposed topic must relate to the main research focus of the research project. We welcome in particular papers that focus (a) on the way in which the use of Biblical text and imagery was for Middle Byzantine hagiographers a tool of differentiation and how it interacted with the author/audience relation, (b) on the function of biblical echoes in polemical hagiography and the relation with the historical context, and (c) on the documentation and interpretation of the presence of biblical citations in Lives from the eighth to tenth century.

Conveners: Claudia Sode (Köln) and Reinhart Ceulemans (Leuven)