Michael Grünbart

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Michael Grünbart (born May 5, 1969 in Badgastein ) is an Austrian Byzantinist .

Life

After graduating from the humanistic branch of the Tamsweg Federal High School , Michael Grünbart studied Byzantine Studies , Classical Philology and Numismatics at the University of Vienna from 1988 to 1992 . In 2000 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna. From 1993 to 2008 he was head of the departmental library of Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. In September 1994 he completed an internship at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel . In 2004 he received the Irene Vaslef Fellowship in Librarianship at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington DC, and in 2007 he was professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Munich . He took on teaching positions at the Universities of Budapest , Ioannina , Rethymno , Vienna and Zurich . In October 2008 he accepted a position (primo et unico loco) as professor for Byzantine Studies at the University of Münster . In 2009 he completed his habilitation at the University of Munich .

Functions

- Since 2009 member of the board of directors of the interdisciplinary Institute for Early Medieval Research (IFMA) at the University of Münster (since 2014 on the board of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Research) and co-editor of the yearbook for Early Medieval Studies .

- Since 2013 the advisory board of Mediävistenverbandes eV

- Member of the expert panel Cult2: Art and Literature of the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) since 2014

- Member of the board of the German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (DAFBS) since March 2015

- Since the 2015/16 winter semester, head of the Greece office at the Westphalian Wilhelms University

- Since October 2018 Managing Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies in Münster

- Member of the EIKON board since November 2018. Society of Friends of Icon Art eV

- since 2019 in the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication (ISSN 2589-9198)

- since 2020 in the editorial board of the historical research forum (together with Achim Hack, Gerrit Jasper Schenk and Romedio Schmitz-Esser)

Research priorities

Grünbart's research focuses on Byzantine literature (especially epistolography ), the Byzantine aristocracy and their self-portrayal, the history of the Eastern Roman Empire, symbolic communication in Byzantium, numismatics and everyday culture ( Bibliography on Material Culture and Daily Life ). He has written numerous articles in the Lexicon of the Middle Ages and the Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages . He worked with Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer in the field of Byzantine history .

In 2012 he curated the exhibition Gold and Lead - Byzantine Treasures from the Münsterland in the Icon Museum Recklinghausen (2015 in the Archaeological Museum of the WWU Münster "Gold and Lead - Norm and Value in Byzantine Everyday Life").

In addition, he works with the network Imitation - Mechanisms of a Cultural Principle in the Middle Ages, funded by the DFG . He heads the subproject C02 “The role of the supernatural in processes of lordship decision-making in Byzantium between the 6th and 12th centuries” within the framework of the SFB 1150 Cultures of Decision-making . In 2017 he was a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication" in Erlangen. In summer 2018 he works at the Fondation Hardt (Geneva), and in autumn 2018 he was a guest (Petra Kappert Fellow) of the SFB 950 "Manuscript Cultures" at the University of Hamburg.

Publications (selection)

In 2010 he initiated the series Byzantine Studies and Texts at Lit Verlag . 2019 Foundation of the electronic magazine The Byzantine Review www.byzrev.com

Monographs and Articles

  • Epistularum byzantinarum Initia. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2001, ISBN 3-487-11462-3 .
  • The letters from and to Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer. An inventory. Self-published, Vienna 2001.
  • Byzantine research in Austria. In: Historicum. Journal of history. Winter 2001/02 ( Byzantium I ), pp. 35-41.
  • Forms of address in the Byzantine letter from the 6th to the 12th century. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3345-6 (dissertation).
  • Byzantine Metal stamps in a North American private collection. In: Dumbarton Oaks Papers. Vol. 60, 2006, pp. 13-24 ( online at JSTOR ).
  • The emperor is crying. Notes on the imperial staging of emotions in Byzantium. In: Early Medieval Studies . Vol. 42, 2008, pp. 89-108.
  • Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer. Bibliography of secondary literature 1900–2011. Self-published, Vienna 2011.
  • Euglottia. Speaking as a status indicator in the Middle Byzantine period. In: Early Medieval Studies. Vol. 45, 2011, pp. 211-231.
  • The Byzantine Empire. WBG, Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-534-25666-2 .
  • Staging and representation of the Byzantine aristocracy from the 10th to the 13th century. Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-7705-5551-2 .

Editorships

  • Theatron. Rhetorical culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019476-0 .
  • Gifts maintain friendship. Exchange of gifts and networking in the European Middle Ages. Files of the International Colloquium Münster, 19. – 20. November 2009 (= Byzantine Studies and Texts. Vol. 1). Lit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-10897-5 .
  • with Lutz Rickelt and Martin Marko Vučetić: Two suns on the Golden Horn? Imperial and patriarchal power in the Byzantine Middle Ages. Files of the International Conference from November 3rd to 5th, 2010 (= Byzantine Studies and Texts. Vol. 3 and Vol. 4). Lit, Münster 2011 and 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11393-1 and ISBN 978-3-643-11540-9 .
  • Gold and lead. Byzantine treasures from the Münsterland. Phoibos, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85161-080-2 .
  • with Katrin Beyer: Urbanitas and ἀστειότης. Cultural expressions of status (10th – 15th centuries). In: Early Medieval Studies. Vol. 45, 2011, pp. 169-389 ( online ).
  • with Margaret Mullett, Lioba Theis : Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond (= Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte . Vol. 60/61). Böhlau, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-205-78840-9 .
  • with Sabine Rogge: Medieval Cyprus - a Place of Cultural Encounter (= writings of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cyprus Studies . Vol. 11). Waxmann, Münster - New York 2015, ISBN 978-3-8309-3360-1 .

Meetings

  • Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond (September 23-25, 2008, Vienna)
  • Gifts keep friendship alive (November 19-20, 2009, Münster)
  • Two suns on the Golden Horn? International conference at the Cluster of Excellence on secular and spiritual power in Constantinople (November 3–5, 2010, Münster)
  • Urbanitas and asteiotes. Cultural expressions of status (10th – 15th centuries) (June 9-10, 2011, Münster)
  • Cyprus in Medieval Times. A Place of Cultural Encounter (December 6-8, 2012, Münster)
  • Interweaving between Byzantium and the Orient (section within the framework of the 32nd German Orientalist Day, Münster 23-27 September 2013)
  • Figurations of Power in the Byzantine Middle Ages (January 14-16, 2015, Münster)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. German Working Group for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies: Board of Directors. February 25, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  2. Imitation - Mechanisms of a Cultural Principle in the Middle Ages
  3. Cultures of decision-making
  4. People. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
  5. ^ Fellows. Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  6. announcement (English) ( Memento of 22 March 2014 Internet Archive )
  7. Program (PDF)
  8. Announcement and program
  9. program (PDF) ; announcement
  10. Announcement
  11. Program with abstracts
  12. program